1 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Promise" |
Just Drive - Part 1 |
We have more than this moment, |
2 |
ELYELLA |
"La Historia Interminable" |
single |
and history will not crash grandly to a close when it is over, |
3 |
Red Mecca |
"Runaway with Me" |
single |
but it's worth wondering what we would do differently |
4 |
Badlands |
"Fantasma II" |
Djinn |
if we were not waiting for anything important to become easier, |
5 |
Senses |
"dangerous" |
single |
or to move smoothly without our effort from the perilous future |
6 |
underscores |
"Kinko's field trip 2006" |
single |
to the even more perilous past. |
7 |
8485 |
"whimper" |
single |
What could we allow ourselves to regret |
8 |
CMTEN |
"BORED" |
single |
if we weren't implicitly convinced that acknowledged sadness |
9 |
Ryan Oakes |
"LOST CAUSE" |
LOST CAUSE +3 |
can only ever accumulate, |
10 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Fever Dream" |
Just Drive - Part 1 |
or that we can remain unsad through a careful performative lack of self-awareness. |
11 |
Flight of Icarus |
"Fly Away" |
single |
We have more than this song, |
12 |
Lost Division |
"The Queen" |
single |
and are not faceted by only these glittering imperfections, |
13 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Desolated" |
single |
but we listen better when we forget this |
14 |
Imperia |
"While I Am Still Here" |
single |
and allow the width of now to fit its duration. |
15 |
As Everything Unfolds |
"On the Inside" |
On the Inside 6 |
For three minutes of forever, we can furiously despair. |
16 |
Rivals |
"Alkaline" |
Alkaline 5 |
For four minutes, we can loudly transmute. |
17 |
Celia Es Celíaca |
"Brujas" |
single |
For however long it takes, we can become our own alluring strangers |
18 |
Megara |
"Saturno" |
Truco o Trato (Capítulo I) 3 |
and cautionary idols, |
19 |
The Dirty Youth |
"Gravity" |
single |
and feel how the properties that normally hold us in place |
20 |
VENUES |
"Rite of Passage" |
single |
are neither inevitable |
21 |
ALYXX |
"The Purge" |
single |
nor irreplaceable. |
22 |
Blood Stain Child |
"2045" |
2045 +1 |
All we acquire by pretending to evade the present |
23 |
PARADISES |
"visions" |
PARADISES RETURN 6 |
is a mistaken conviction that the future rushes grimly |
24 |
SCANDAL |
"eternal" |
eternal +1 |
at us from outside of ourselves, |
25 |
Sayuri |
"かみさま" |
single |
and bruises from our concomitant refusal to dodge the bits that stick out |
26 |
Loli in early 20s |
"Sore wa" |
single |
from inside of our own perforated and erratic hearts. |
27 |
HIRAGANA KAMIYADO |
"Fanfare calling for you" |
single |
Our hearts are full of holes and conflicting impulses. That's literally how they function, |
28 |
//ネコプラ// |
"プロミスサマー" |
single |
and yet also how they integrate us. |
29 |
Panorama Panama Town |
"SO YOUNG" |
single |
We find the thinnest point of our skin, |
30 |
Street Story |
"夢グライダー" |
Way of life |
and dig through it with intimation and contradictory evidence. |
31 |
Nightmare |
"cry for the moon" |
cry for the moon +2 |
We want things that are constituted from wanting |
32 |
ALCYON |
"amanojaku" |
amanojaku +2 |
and a little bit of dust, |
33 |
mama. |
"Bokuranobyoumeihaningendesita" |
single |
and when we get them we are scared to say their names, |
34 |
Wolfheart |
"Hereditary" |
Skull Soldiers 4 |
but our own names are more familiar and yet no safer. |
35 |
Cvlt Ov the Svn |
"My Venom" |
single |
We do not have to go into space |
36 |
Golgotha |
"I Am Lost" |
Remembering the Past: Writing the Future |
to reduce our field of vision to rock and horizons, |
37 |
An Autumn for Crippled Children |
"Carefully Breathing" |
single |
or to run out of acceptable air. |
38 |
Merta |
"Usva" |
single |
We do not have to wait for justice |
39 |
Nemoreus |
"Mountain High" |
Arnea |
to treat ourselves as timeless, |
40 |
Crown |
"Shades" |
single |
as divine and mechanical, |
41 |
Defeatist UK |
"Skin Deep" |
single |
diaphanous and metamorphic, |
42 |
Fleddy Melculy |
"NIKS" |
single |
absurd and utopian and squandered and promised. |
43 |
A Few Too Many |
"History" |
single |
We insist that we will discard these moments when they end, |
44 |
Seasick |
"Worth It" |
single |
but we can only ascribe meaning to things that are unowned, |
45 |
Fayence Dream |
"Burning Daylight" |
single |
just as we can only sing or move at all by giving away some of our hoarded love, |
46 |
Middle Kids |
"Stacking Chairs" |
Stacking Chairs +3 |
so if we flinch and fail at the instant of release, |
47 |
Shannen James |
"Superstitious" |
single |
we incur arbitrary fates. |
48 |
NIKI DEMAR |
"Messy Room" |
single |
We can declare ourselves their collectors, |
49 |
Rozalén |
"Mar en el Trigal" |
single |
and then have to sit alone among them, |
50 |
David Jones David |
"Hello" |
single |
or for four minutes we can be weightless, |
51 |
Dobet Gnahoré |
"Lève-toi" |
single |
waitless, |
52 |
Mdou Moctar |
"Tala Tannam" |
single |
perfect. |
53 |
Emmit Fenn |
"Colors" |
single |
We have more than this song, and this song would have been enough. |
54 |
Thisquietarmy |
"New Normal x No Future" |
Compendium: 2005-2020 |
For seven minutes, let the roar of that truth fill you. |
55 |
Pete Yorn |
"Ten Storey Love Song" |
Pete Yorn Sings the Classics |
And then sing something. |
56 |
Violet Orlandi |
"My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" |
single |
Anything you sing, you share. |
57 |
Saxon |
"Paperback Writer" |
single |
Anything you share is the beginning of a story that doesn't yet know how to end, or why. |