| 1 | Lontalius | "To Be Happy" | single | This isn't glitchcore, isn't really rap enough to be emo rap, but part of what new movements do is clear out spaces in which you can stand. |
| 2 | Julien Baker | "Highlight Reel" | Little Oblivions | Billy Bragg didn't sound like Echo and the Bunnymen. Julien Baker doesn't have to sound like Charli XCX or Noname to be part of something that brandishes presence and fragility and fast blood like punk wielded anarchy and disdain. |
| 3 | Shamir | "Ocean Eyes" | single | Shamir doesn't have to sound like Frank Ocean, nor exactly not like Frank Ocean. |
| 4 | Harry Shotta | "Timeless" | Growth 4 | Ask yourself what you don't have to do, |
| 5 | Denzel Curry | "'Cosmic'.4a [The Alchemist Version Feat. Joey BadA$$]" | 'Cosmic'.4a [The Alchemist Version Feat. Joey BadA$$] +1 | what you exuberantly don't have to tolerate, |
| 6 | Mthunzi | "Elentulo" | single | where else you can focus your dreams. |
| 7 | Da Muziqal Chef | "Amasheleni" | Muziqal Fiesta | Amapiano is almost opposite of glitchcore in most musical ways, serene where glitchcore is frenetic, |
| 8 | Amabunjwa | "Umshado Yijele" | single | but both clear out cultural space for the idea that the center of something can be elsewhere, |
| 9 | Ella Vos | "Still dreaming, backwards" | single | that other legacies can be precedent. |
| 10 | Florrie | "Hours" | single | Always forever can be disassembled into hours or minutes, |
| 11 | Kitten | "American Football" | single | and put back together into power-structure effigies |
| 12 | 18th & Addison | "Broke Down In Babylon" | single | and blearily reverent dreams. |
| 13 | Baby Queen | "These Drugs" | single | There are so many ways to be happy, most of them sadly unreliable. |
| 14 | Nervous Dater | "The Dirt" | Call in the Mess | Ask yourself whether you'll be proud to have tried what you tried if it doesn't work, |
| 15 | Menta | "Esperar" | single | whether you'll be able to remember what it felt like before you knew. |
| 16 | sunsetinfall | "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" | Out of Sight, Out of Mind / Lost Property 2 | Anger is a transitional resolution, |
| 17 | Maximo Park | "Partly Of My Making" | Nature Always Wins | and transition is the rate of change of survival, |
| 18 | Slowly Slowly | "The Best Bits" | Race Car Blues | which sometimes requires you to step out of discarded skin. |
| 19 | Cloud Nothings | "Oslo" | The Shadow I Remember | Nothing ends. |
| 20 | Redzed | "No Chance" | single | Most of your better ideas will turn out to be worse, but that's still a reason to have them. |
| 21 | Evergrey | "Stories" | Escape of the Phoenix | New stories are enough: |
| 22 | Juliet Ruin | "Fake Stigmata" | single | of how you feared the wrong sins, |
| 23 | Doll Skin | "Control Freak" | single | or how you were wrong to fear sins |
| 24 | Eternal Frequency | "What Are We Waiting For" | single | or to fear. |
| 25 | Metalite | "Cloud Connected" | Cloud Connected +2 | There are ways to sit heroically at home, |
| 26 | Epica | "Twilight Reverie - The Hypnagogic State -" | Omega | heroically suspended, |
| 27 | KuuΔelta | "Still" | single | coming up close, |
| 28 | Regardless Of Me | "Hell's Friends" | single | imagining everywhere you aren't going. |
| 29 | NECRONOMIDOL | "TUPILAQ" | vämjelseriter | I miss all the places I've been, |
| 30 | H△G | "卒業の唄" | 瞬きもせずに+ | but I was never going to be able to go back to them all at once, |
| 31 | BiS | "どっきゅんばっきゅん" | KiLLiNG IDOLS 6 | and somehow they still have to exist. |
| 32 | EXiNA | "DEAR JUNKS" | single | This isn't K-Pop, but every benificent gesture reorganizes the air, |
| 33 | //ネコプラ// | "Sprinter!!" | single | blows it around. |
| 34 | The Guzmania | "kotoba no ame" | single | Any new thing you try exercises your tolerance muscles, |
| 35 | ARLEQUIN | "DameNingen" | pieces | tearing them so they heal stronger. |
| 36 | COLLAPSE | "VERTIGO feat. ISHIKAWA(My Dead Girlfriend)" | single | All of this is post-rock, |
| 37 | Smerz | "Max" | Believer | and will be post- whatever we call it now. |
| 38 | Vladislav Delay | "Rakkn" | single | By the time you hear these songs, they are only symbolically new, |
| 39 | Bjorth | "Heidr" | single | but singing is and has always been a trade in symbols |
| 40 | Nawather | "Breath of Jasmin" | Kenz Illusion | constantly lapsing into a solipsism of symbolic technique |
| 41 | Empyrium | "A Lucid Tower Beckons on the Hills Afar" | Über den Sternen | and then back out into a taxonomy of solipsisms. |
| 42 | Moonspell | "Hermitage" | Hermitage | Half of these mythologies are based on blinking selectively while we spin, |
| 43 | Perennial Isolation | "The Silent Solace" | single | but that doesn't mean you can't be raptured |
| 44 | Wolvencrown | "A Shadow of What Once Was Pt. 1" | A Shadow of What Once Was 3 | exactly where you stand, |
| 45 | Myronath | "Effigy of Malediction" | single | it just requires you to believe as a motion, |
| 46 | Einherjer | "Echoes in Blood" | North Star | feel everything that cuts and holds you, |
| 47 | IOTUNN | "Access All Worlds" | Access All Worlds | and then vault anyway into the sky. |
| 48 | Rise to the Sky | "Leaving This World" | single | Nothing ends, |
| 49 | MUR | "Inner Hole" | single | neither outwards nor inwards. |
| 50 | Interiors | "Analepsis" | Conduit Vista | You were born; |
| 51 | Megaraptor | "That`s the Way It Is" | single | you need not be resigned to this, |
| 52 | Epica | "Omega - Sovereign of the Sun Spheres -" | Omega | but it won't help trying to have done it differently. |
| 53 | Starmen | "Kisses of an Enemy" | single | Love, too, is a transitional energy. |
| 54 | Sub-Radio | "What You Want To Hear" | single | Choose fury, or choose joy. |
| 55 | The Alarm | "Protect and Survive" | WAЯ | They aren't really different. |
| 56 | Bic Runga | "No One Walks This Night Alone" | single | It is us who differ, |
| 57 | Jetty Bones | "Everything" | Push Back | who foolishly and stubbornly try to change. |
| 58 | Wy | "Dream House" | Dream House +1 | We have sat heroically home for long enough, we think, |
| 59 | Jade Bird | "Open up the heavens" | single | learned surely whatever we were going to learn from this, |
| 60 | Slowly Slowly | "Restless Legs" | Race Car Blues | but we are not set free by impatiently practicing our backwards walk in our kitchens, |
| 61 | Glacier Veins | "Accident Prone - Cover" | Accident Prone / Circles (Reimagined) 2 | unless that is how we don't die. |
| 62 | The Animal In Me | "The Rock Show" | single | I miss shows I wouldn't even have gone to, |
| 63 | Violet Orlandi | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | Ruining Classics, Vol. 1 | miss making choices about how I will remember this year, |
| 64 | Melissa Ferrick | "High and Dry" | single | miss happier songs. |
| 65 | Karen Zoid | "A Case Of You" | Under The Covers - Live | But I play what I find, still here alone in headphones, |
| 66 | dodie | "Hate Myself (Voice Memo)" | single | quietly replacing the noise around me with hope. |