1 |
Sershen&Zaritskaya |
"Come Together" |
single |
Millions of songs now living will never die, |
2 |
Sershen&Zaritskaya |
"Stayin' Alive" |
single |
but gradually we will forget, not where they came from, |
3 |
Perpetual Fate |
"Applause" |
single |
but what it was like to hear them when they were only themselves. |
4 |
Butcher Babies |
"Last Dance" |
single |
Of course this is always our dilemma: |
5 |
Dead Venus |
"Flowers & Pain - Single Cut" |
single |
how to live each unconnected moment as it will be seen in its place in history, |
6 |
Mutum |
"Centipede" |
single |
without forfeiting our desired fate by assuming we are entitled to it. |
7 |
Cadaveria |
"Shamanic Path" |
single |
The steps we take define and constitute our path: |
8 |
Pinkshift |
"Mars" |
Saccharine 5 |
into the unknown, |
9 |
Cran Arcanaria |
"Dominator" |
single |
or in retreat back within our shrinking zone of control; |
10 |
Aldious |
"Show Down" |
Show Down +1 |
out the door, in adventurers' clothes, |
11 |
WHISPER OUT LOUD |
"invisible" |
WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISIBLE 6 |
until the next distance feels small, |
12 |
SHE'S |
"Letter" |
Sad |
and only ruefully home again in the last light, |
13 |
the peggies |
"足跡" |
single |
or along the same worn curve; |
14 |
HoneyWorks |
"HokoritakakiIdol" |
Kokuhakujikkouiinkai -FLYING SONGS- Aishiteru |
aloft over the watching crowds, |
15 |
AIBECK |
"HELLO" |
single |
not waving but beckoning, |
16 |
TRiDENT |
"IMAGINATION" |
ADVANCE GENERATION |
or letting them fall away as if the sun were a destination. |
17 |
RONDONRATS。 |
"PARASITE" |
single |
We live, tenuously, on the encrusted skin of a slow fury |
18 |
zenbukiminoseida. |
"WORLD END CRISIS" |
Q.E.D.mono |
for whom our existential crises are transient molting |
19 |
SPYAIR |
"We'll Never Die" |
UNITE |
or an urge to shudder. |
20 |
ALCYON |
"Honmou, Kimihe" |
3-month concept "Thirst" "Aspiration" "Despair" |
Neither earth nor sky are audience for our intentions, |
21 |
ゼラ |
"残月" |
月蝕 2 |
and when we confuse audience and setting, |
22 |
Diaura |
"君へ黒の花束を" |
single |
we tend to end up congratulating the oblivious with poison gifts. |
23 |
Catalysts |
"HOME" |
single |
Paths have to start somewhere, |
24 |
DESURABBITS |
"RAYWORD" |
JUMP (Type-A) |
but that's pretty much the only real rule. |
25 |
LEVEREVE |
"Lateralis" |
single |
There is no sideways, every step is definitionally forward, |
26 |
Senses |
"feel alive" |
single |
including the one that will turn out to have taken you across, or irrevocably through, |
27 |
Yandere |
"pink perfume" |
single |
an unanticipated boundary now clearly visible around your feet in shards. |
28 |
New Sylveon |
"московские невозможности" |
ZVER |
The music of this pandemic is made recklessly from inside careful boxes, |
29 |
New Sylveon |
"плаш" |
ZVER |
and then tunnelled directly into our heads, |
30 |
CMTEN |
"MUSIC BOX" |
single |
anthems of expansive containment |
31 |
recovery girl |
"gonna break u" |
single |
and belligerent fragility, |
32 |
lieu |
"Fuck You Nnb" |
Heartbreak 3 |
dying and being born again in the dimensionless spaces between beats, |
33 |
kuru |
"skytearer" |
single |
frantic in stasis, |
34 |
LiL Lotus |
"Fake Love" |
single |
picking fights just so these relentless rooms can have a novel smell. |
35 |
Goreshit |
"ligwiybd" |
Misdirection |
Let it go. We internalize your busiest demons |
36 |
Poppy Tears |
"RESTORED" |
DIGITAL : DEATH |
in the defiant belief that they, and thus we, can be redeemed, |
37 |
7xvn |
"ghost story" |
single |
and then we collect anthologies of how this never works, |
38 |
PEZZHEAD |
"Fairy Talezz" |
single |
or never quite, |
39 |
Ryan Oakes |
"APRIL FOOLS" |
single |
and end up trading endings for a look |
40 |
r u s s e l b u c k |
"Only Fans" |
single |
or an inexplicable noise. |
41 |
$WAGGOT |
"Fuck Machine" |
Happiness Arcade ULTRA |
I keep saying that glitchcore is the new punk, and I keep being right. |
42 |
Original God |
"Did It Hurt?" |
single |
All of these things are comorbidities, |
43 |
Iglooghost |
"Amu (Disk•Mod)" |
Lei Line Eon |
whatever is or isn't on each new revision of the list. |
44 |
Amon Tobin |
"Rise to Ashes" |
single |
We are reawakened in waves, |
45 |
Swan Meat |
"House Absolute" |
single |
undulating unfamiliarly, |
46 |
Rosemary Loves a Blackberry |
"внутри меня бьёт барабан" |
single |
speaking to each other in what seemed like the same languages once, |
47 |
Shaybo |
"Streets" |
single |
but maybe now we will be less easily misheard. |
48 |
Becko |
"Otaku Pride" |
Otaku Pride +1 |
We aspire precisely to be angry again about trivial constructed affronts, |
49 |
Avec Sans |
"I Will Be With You" |
single |
and thus bound together by chosen malice |
50 |
Nano |
"All I Need" |
single |
instead of involuntary vulnerability. |
51 |
Desperate Journalist |
"Fault" |
single |
We itch to return to the ludicrous craft of infusing ineffectual mistakes |
52 |
Nasty Cherry |
"Six Six Six" |
The Movie 5 |
into unmasked breath, |
53 |
Hit Like a Girl |
"Wanna Be Loved" |
Heart Racer |
to unlikely interpretations of the small movements of our mouths. |
54 |
Forever Starts Today |
"It's Not Your Fault" |
single |
Soon, soon. |
55 |
Asha Jefferies |
"Crybaby" |
single |
Stop crying and get ready, |
56 |
The Wild & Free |
"How These Things Go" |
single |
we will be released from these traps, |
57 |
Pantocrator |
"El Gobierno de China" |
single |
back into a beautiful world no better than we left it. |
58 |
Glasgow Kiss |
"One Step Closer" |
single |
New steps and new paths await, |
59 |
Da Igual |
"Si Yo Pudiera - Radio Edit" |
single |
nowhere until we conjure them by our own monumental will |
60 |
Marcos y Molduras |
"Los Ratos Contigo" |
single |
and stubborn tiny motions. |
61 |
Rubén Kelsen |
"Lágrimas" |
single |
Millions of soon-to-be-abandoned disguises will never be reworn, |
62 |
Mdou Moctar |
"Afrique Victime" |
Afrique Victime +1 |
as if our anonymity and our powerless can just be unhooked from our ears |
63 |
Boohle |
"Hamba Nobani - Radio Edit" |
Hamba Nobani 2 |
and left on a counter near the door. |
64 |
Dobet Gnahoré |
"Yakané" |
single |
Dancing was a thing we did together in the streets. |
65 |
ONR |
"It Gets To A Point" |
single |
Notes rang off the sides of buildings as if that was what we built them for, |
66 |
EdGE |
"Erased" |
single |
before they sat empty, hoarding air rendered sharable |
67 |
Gary Numan |
"Saints and Liars - Edit" |
Saints and Liars 5 |
by only isolation. |
68 |
Thy Catafalque |
"Piros-sárga" |
single |
We each had a catafalque of our own, and we complimented each others' in customarily arch tones, |
69 |
Helloween |
"Skyfall - Single Edit" |
single |
learning to humanize absurdity through commitment, |
70 |
Nicole |
"Vihollisteni peilit" |
Hävityksen Huoneet |
and then to recognize when this is exactly what has been done to us. |
71 |
Varjola |
"Tekohengitystä" |
single |
These breaths always distributed pieces of ourselves to each other, |
72 |
Mörkvind |
"Liv" |
Undergång 4 |
or at least so we claimed when we thought we were untraceable |
73 |
Dödsrit |
"Shallow Graves" |
single |
and immortal. |
74 |
Bleakwinter Shrine |
"Desolation" |
The Warrior Cycle |
We forget the winter. We forget plagues. |
75 |
WANDAR |
"Raunen" |
Landlose Ufer |
We forget the things that have killed or doomed us, |
76 |
Paysage D'Hiver |
"Schtampfä" |
single |
or at least we convince ourselves that they rarely do both. |
77 |
Mare Cognitum |
"Frozen Star Divinization" |
Solar Paroxysm |
Of course, if we have survived, we are the ones who were right, |
78 |
夢遊病者 |
"Redemption / Retaliation" |
Noč Na Krayu Sveta |
which is how insisting that we are right ends up mislabeled as a survival skill, |
79 |
Julian Lehmann |
"Nature Spirit" |
single |
and wild erroneous surmises misunderstood as performative ritual. |
80 |
Vinnie Camilleri |
"Valkyrie Spirit" |
single |
Spirit is not an additive we mail-order in censer pods to wave over our inertiae. |
81 |
Abanqobi |
"Ngizuzwe YiZulu" |
single |
We are not tolerated or tolerant. |
82 |
Gavin Bryars |
"A Native Hill: No. 6, The Music of Streams" |
single |
Those are two of a million powers that we do not have, |
83 |
Bryce Dessner |
"Alarms" |
Impermanence/Disintegration |
and that thus unite us. |
84 |
Jo Quail |
"Malacoda" |
single |
We walk home in slowly less-fading light. |
85 |
Throwing Snow |
"Brujita" |
single |
There will be a night, and then a morning when we no longer need these masks. |
86 |
Iglooghost |
"Soil Bolt" |
Lei Line Eon |
We will start to forget waiting, and to remember what we were waiting for. |