1 |
Donovan Woods |
"When the Party's Over" |
Without People (Deluxe) |
I hope some day, in the past or future, I do something as unexpected and uplifting as writing a million relentlessly small songs about difficult lives and then one deliriously silly country-pop love song, |
2 |
Donovan Woods |
"Break Somebody's Heart" |
Without People (Deluxe) |
and then going back to what I was doing before, because it mattered and matters and moments of joy do not absolve us from empathy. |
3 |
The People The Poet |
"Walls" |
single |
Nor does empathy disqualify you from joy, from going up and over the bridge, |
4 |
Emmit Fenn |
"Light That Shines Through" |
single |
from saving yourself by reaching out, |
5 |
Sierra Leona |
"El Milagro" |
single |
from unmagical transcendence earned in unfamiliar fields, |
6 |
Rosario |
"La Vida Es Otra Cosa" |
single |
from spending a year not quite breathing and not learning how to not breathe. |
7 |
Lil Skele |
"bleed through the bandages" |
single |
Time stops, but we have so many other things we can do with the parts of clocks: |
8 |
funeral |
"protector" |
single |
scattering and regathering; |
9 |
lieu |
"findhelp" |
single |
cleaning each one carefully and unnecessarily; |
10 |
8485 |
"southview" |
single |
writing them into a sentimental index; |
11 |
Petal Supply |
"1" |
single |
lining them up as if they measure time by merely each existing, not coordination. |
12 |
Nosgov |
"cryaotic" |
single |
Nor do we measure humanity by enumeration, |
13 |
Yandere |
"harvest" |
single |
nor grace by a volume of avoided transgressions. |
14 |
miraie |
"with you" |
single |
There is no distance. |
15 |
クレナズム |
"酔生夢死" |
single |
September's not so far away, or whenever this is over |
16 |
DREAMCATCHER |
"Eclipse" |
Eclipse 6 |
and we can all be idols again. |
17 |
BiSH |
"STAR" |
single |
All the stars burn, and yet we never seem to run out of them. |
18 |
FINLANDS |
"HEAT" |
FLASH |
Take heart, take risks. |
19 |
Do As Infinity |
"Like A Rose" |
Do The Complete |
Write "the end", and then something else. |
20 |
AliA |
"Yubisaki" |
single |
Distance, like any other practiced discipline, |
21 |
LEIWAN |
"Juniors dominating seniors Mountain" |
single |
teaches you about what separates you from your world, |
22 |
Afterglow |
"SENSENFUKOKU" |
ONE OF US |
and how it is only really able to do so with your cooperation and consent. |
23 |
AIBECK |
"NEXT STEP" |
single |
Not only does any tiny reluctant movement move you closer to something, |
24 |
果歩 |
"ブルーアワー" |
single |
but even if you succeeded in holding still, |
25 |
EXiNA |
"ERiCA" |
single |
which you will not, |
26 |
Pan |
"Arde Lento" |
single |
it would only be you, smugly motionless, |
27 |
Lisasinson |
"Tú Y Yo" |
Tú Y Yo +1 |
there where we find you. |
28 |
The Joy Formidable |
"Into the Blue - Single Edit" |
single |
We have been reduced to watching each other, |
29 |
Teenage Joans |
"Ice Cream" |
single |
to deliberate exchanges through sliding windows, |
30 |
Sincere Engineer |
"Out of Reach" |
single |
to arm's length as a heuristic of safety instead of intimacy, |
31 |
Mannequin Pussy |
"Control" |
single |
but yet not essentially diminished. |
32 |
Sub-Radio |
"Out Of My Mind" |
single |
I am sick of this, |
33 |
Meet Me @ The Altar |
"Hit Like A Girl" |
single |
but not as sick as I am eager to witness our re-emergences. |
34 |
Metalite |
"Talisman" |
A Virtual World |
What got you through this? |
35 |
Imperia |
"Dream Away" |
The Last Horizon |
What failed? |
36 |
Hildr Valkyrie |
"We Are Heathens" |
We Are Heathens +1 |
What was lost, and how will you remember it? |
37 |
The Genotype |
"Cybernetic Revolt" |
single |
What now? |
38 |
Skies Collide |
"Bloodstream" |
single |
What now? |
39 |
Regardless Of Me |
"All I Remember" |
single |
All questions are ways of asking |
40 |
As Everything Unfolds |
"I'm Not the Only One" |
Within Each Lies the Other |
what we will construe the past to have implied. |
41 |
Juliet Ruin |
"Might" |
Dark Water 4 |
This is why we fight over control of history, |
42 |
Ringwanderung |
"fall into sky" |
single |
and the endorsements of the long-dead. |
43 |
Metalite |
"Alone" |
A Virtual World |
Until now, we could pretend that we had to get by on our own. |
44 |
Neonfly |
"The Future, Tonight" |
single |
Of course this was never true. |
45 |
Marius Danielsen |
"The Sarlinian Bow" |
single |
Our integral stories are always told by many voices at once, |
46 |
HAVAMAL |
"Nidhoggr" |
single |
describing different paths to the base of the same waterfall, |
47 |
Necronomicon |
"I Am the Violence" |
The Final Chapter |
or competing theories for why the water doesn't simply turn back |
48 |
Manimal |
"Forged in Metal" |
single |
when it reaches the edge. |
49 |
Nightrage |
"Abyss Rising" |
single |
The water, as it soars towards us, asks us the same thing about ourselves and our myriad inexplicable choices. |
50 |
Enigmatic Entrance |
"Space Drifter" |
Space Drifter +1 |
Edges are subjective topology, |
51 |
Gojira |
"Amazonia" |
Amazonia +2 |
none more so than the edge between our accumulated mistakes |
52 |
Dwell in Doom |
"Within Me" |
single |
and their compounded consequences. |
53 |
Nevicate |
"Dewdrops" |
single |
It doesn't actually get harder to hold on. |
54 |
The Anix |
"DSPTCH" |
DSPTCH +1 |
It's just always hard, and always stretches out, |
55 |
Andromida |
"Isolated" |
Hellscape |
and we feel how it pulls on us |
56 |
Naevius |
"Manko O Kudasai 69x420,000" |
single |
when we are not ourselves moving. |
57 |
Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas |
"Evolve Forward in Hazard" |
single |
But you move by not dying, |
58 |
Tännebränne |
"Aktas, backas, tuktas" |
single |
and pull all of us with you. |
59 |
Hacktivist |
"Planet Zero" |
single |
We move with a hectic pedigree flow, |
60 |
CXLE |
"MTV" |
Nothing Good To Say |
imagining ourselves watched |
61 |
Brightside |
"if i lost u" |
single |
and then not watched, |
62 |
Chief |
"405" |
CHIEF 6 |
or vice versa, twirling through the moment when it changes. |
63 |
The Thirteen |
"ever gray" |
ICY |
We wake from brightest-color dreams into gray mornings, |
64 |
Age Factory |
"OVER" |
single |
and light them with fire from our hearts, |
65 |
Loreen |
"Sötvattentårar" |
single |
channeled through cracks in the surface of the earth |
66 |
Ainoa Buitrago |
"Quema" |
single |
or through our open mouths, |
67 |
Molly Sandén |
"Nån annan nu" |
single |
to say "it doesn't matter how you dance when I am watching you", |
68 |
Efecto Mariposa |
"Mi Parte Emocional" |
single |
except that you dance, |
69 |
SVRCINA |
"Upside of Down" |
single |
and you can't dance in armor, |
70 |
Lili Haydn |
"More Love" |
More Love |
and the darkness beneath armor |
71 |
Moyka |
"As Long as You're Here" |
Stay 2 |
cannot adhere long to our bodies. |
72 |
BLOXX |
"Everything I’ve Ever Learned" |
single |
Nor does this knowledge keep us from coveting |
73 |
Prinze George |
"Take Off" |
Happy Garden |
or polishing or collecting |
74 |
Sharon Van Etten |
"DsharpG (By Shamir)" |
single |
cuirasses or halberds or |
75 |
Linn Koch-Emmery |
"Hard to Love" |
Hard to Love +3 |
delusions of independence or superiority. |
76 |
Taylor Acorn |
"True Crime" |
single |
We think we see forever in each other's eyes, |
77 |
Imogen Clark |
"Eat You Alive" |
Eat You Alive +2 |
and we are always right. |
78 |
Christina Rotondo |
"The End of Heartache" |
single |
Our mistake is not always seeing it in our own, |
79 |
Second to Sun |
"A Fortress Clad in Gray Fog" |
A Fortress Clad in Gray Fog +1 |
and thus learning to see nothing beyond walls |
80 |
Love // Paranoia |
"Native" |
single |
until we think the huddled spaces inside of the walls are where we're from. |
81 |
Darksidevinyl |
"Pomayo" |
Pomayo +1 |
We are from dancefloors |
82 |
Van Baxy |
"Bi môgô" |
Bi môgô |
and continents that fully intend to reunite, |
83 |
Ntencane |
"Abelungu" |
Ngivunywe Usathane |
and souls full of stars, |
84 |
Shogun |
"Borealis" |
single |
and roads that lead into or out of the north. |
85 |
Stanley Odd |
"Undo Redo" |
single |
We have been to the edge. |
86 |
Rota |
"Geberiyorum" |
single |
At least it felt like the edge when we were there that once, |
87 |
VIKING_DEATH_TRAP.EXE |
"PULE_DE_I_RÆVA" |
single |
but you can see in our pictures that it had parking signs and bakeries, |
88 |
Şanışer |
"Peşimde Kara Geceler" |
single |
and you can tell they're parking signs and bakeries even if you can't read any of the words. |
89 |
Bok Van Blerk |
"Dis Wie Ons Is" |
single |
Nor does tourism and incomprehension keep you from parking as best you can, |
90 |
Kirkkovene |
"Kaks toisillemme hellää" |
Tubehitit, Vol. 1 |
and walking across the street to see what they have in bakeries here. |
91 |
Ikirouta |
"Violetin vaaran taika" |
single |
Pretzels, it turns out, basically. And something purple and kind of dangerous looking. Order that. |
92 |
dArtagnan |
"Helden" |
Feuer & Flamme |
We are made of these tiny heroic acts: eating purple pastries or remembering the dead, |
93 |
Elevation Worship |
"Jireh (feat. Chandler Moore & Naomi Raine)" |
single |
sitting with somebody else's story for as long as it takes them to tell it, |
94 |
North Point Worship |
"O What A Miracle (feat. Kaycee Hines) - Live" |
Live From Decatur City |
and then still being willing to hear the next person tell it again. |
95 |
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro |
"Todo lo que te Quiero (ASMR) para ti" |
single |
The acts of speaking and listening move the air across our skin, |
96 |
Kcin |
"Salt Ghost" |
Salt Ghost +2 |
and allow our fears to leave us. |
97 |
Iglooghost |
"Big Protector" |
single |
They will form a civilization of their own in a protective layer |
98 |
hm.wav |
"obelia" |
hydroid 3 |
between the indietronisphere |
99 |
Jónsi |
"Wildeye - Danny L Harle Remix" |
single |
and the hypersphere, |
100 |
Miguel |
"Candles in the Sun" |
Art Dealer Chic 3 3 |
and back here on earth we will make our own new darkness out of hope and mercy. |
101 |
Nordsind |
"Drømmefanger" |
Lys |
Nor does hope exempt you from responsibility or arduous caution. |
102 |
Lauren Babic |
"Positions" |
single |
We fear and persevere, |
103 |
First to Eleven |
"Enter Sandman" |
single |
we sleep with open eyes, |
104 |
Terra Naomi |
"Time After Time" |
single |
and we are waiting with retold stories of falling and being caught when you fall. |