1 |
PRONOUN |
"I WANNA DIE BUT I CAN’T (CUZ I GOTTA KEEP LIVING)" |
single |
We wake from lowercase dreams into anthemic resignation, |
2 |
pizzagirl |
"bullet train" |
bullet train +1 |
into ghostfears of interstitial rapture, |
3 |
Fightmilk |
"Hey Annabelle!" |
single |
into vindictive cartwheels of attachment, |
4 |
Remember Sports |
"Sentimentality" |
Like a Stone |
into cadent blur. |
5 |
Little Simz |
"Introvert" |
single |
We will each be issued orchestras in our reclusion, |
6 |
CHVRCHES |
"He Said She Said" |
single |
and machines for spinning uncertainty into weightless marble. |
7 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Set off" |
single |
Take them out of the box. |
8 |
LiSA |
"Another Great Day!!" |
single |
We may be falling, |
9 |
ASCA |
"カルペディエム" |
single |
but we are falling through the best part of the sky. |
10 |
AIBECK |
"FLASH BACK" |
single |
We have saved up these songs, |
11 |
Inshow ha |
"グッバイ" |
single |
ways to remember the mordantly unforgettable better, |
12 |
Louna |
"Незабудка" |
single |
because what else can we do with it? |
13 |
Blackbriar |
"Confess" |
The Cause of Shipwreck |
We ride out storms by holding still, |
14 |
Frozen Crown |
"Embrace the Night" |
Winterbane |
and using their strength as our strength. |
15 |
Lasting Maze |
"Thunder" |
Thunder |
If we had known we'd be inside for this long, we would have bought better microphones, |
16 |
Red Eleven |
"Universe" |
Handled with Chaos |
a better evolutionary history, |
17 |
Rouen |
"Wreckage" |
single |
a larger axe, however decorative. |
18 |
Scarlxrd |
"Mxrbid." |
single |
You never know when you might survive, |
19 |
PEZZHEAD |
"her clawzz" |
single |
and with whom. |
20 |
Senses |
"#myall" |
single |
We judge hands instead of reaching out with our own, |
21 |
Wstdyth |
"Sleepy Hollow" |
single |
or that's the plan, anyway, |
22 |
Forget Basement |
"Garden" |
Arkangel |
until we brush against something alive |
23 |
KidSnorlax |
"2000 nosebleeds" |
single |
and cathartically respond. |
24 |
Gamvae |
"miss the rage but its gamvae flip" |
single |
We do not change each other's minds at a distance, |
25 |
Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas |
"One Shot, One Mind" |
single |
we collide and then linger. |
26 |
Takanori Nishikawa |
"Eden through the rough" |
Eden through the rough +3 |
We hone outlandish axes |
27 |
Mr.FanTastiC |
"We are quits" |
single |
in order only to reach through disdain to skin. |
28 |
fish in water project |
"SETSUNA-BLUE" |
DREAMS |
Metaphoria redounds. |
29 |
The Florist |
"Wide Eyes" |
single |
For a year, we looked wistfully at our shoes from across bedrooms, |
30 |
Anakin |
"Ender" |
@-5 2 |
dreaming of unfightable wars |
31 |
Lehnen |
"Negative Space" |
single |
wrapped in clinging gauze, |
32 |
As the Sun Falls |
"From Thy Deepest" |
single |
writing secret letters to defiant monsters |
33 |
MUCC |
"Myojo" |
Myojo |
in their untouched citadels, |
34 |
mama. |
"Afterpills" |
single |
seeking their advice on problems they don't have |
35 |
Djevel |
"Maanen skal være mine øine, den skinnende stierne mine ben, og her skal jeg vandre til evig tid" |
single |
and wouldn't suffer. |
36 |
Zgard |
"Old Ruins" |
single |
Our prayers are not diagnostic, |
37 |
Altarage |
"Drainage Mechanism" |
Succumb |
they are stories of what we aren't yet prepared to embrace, |
38 |
Night Crowned |
"Nattkrönt" |
single |
rising up our throats, deciding whether to be gasps or songs. |
39 |
Year Of No Light |
"Réalgar" |
single |
For a year, every pillar was a sundial, |
40 |
Ulvehyrde |
"Disippelen" |
Englemakersken |
the sun's path unmonitored and distrusted, |
41 |
Bodom After Midnight |
"Payback's a Bitch" |
Paint the Sky with Blood 3 |
but the readings cataloged and searched for formulae. |
42 |
This Ending |
"Eclipse of the Dead" |
single |
Did we really learn to do anything other than wait? |
43 |
Vanvidd |
"Blodsjord" |
single |
Maybe not, but maybe we underestimate patience's power. |
44 |
EviloN |
"Walk of the damned" |
single |
You never know when you might survive |
45 |
Sylvatica |
"Ashes and Snow" |
Ashes and Snow |
through attention to slow shadows |
46 |
Morgarten |
"Tales of My Lands" |
single |
and oblique legends. |
47 |
Dornenreich |
"Der Freiheit Verlangen nach goldenen Ketten" |
single |
We may be entombed, |
48 |
Aeges |
"Colors" |
single |
but we are buried in the best layer of the earth, |
49 |
Fleesh |
"Holy Land" |
Versions II |
the one where lost cities are always found, |
50 |
Teramaze |
"Stone" |
single |
their streets majestic, |
51 |
Frost* |
"Day and Age - Edit" |
single |
their industries heraldic and elemental, |
52 |
Benthos |
"Back and Forth" |
II |
their factions rooted in geometry and pendula. |
53 |
Tangerine Circus |
"Spheres" |
single |
Looking through closets for half-remembered devices or their missing power-cables, |
54 |
Constancia |
"Brave New World" |
single |
we find the letters Pythagoras sent us in college, |
55 |
Reach |
"Satellite" |
The Promise of a Life |
filled with summaries of unstageable one-act plays |
56 |
Silent |
"It Follows" |
Modern Hate |
and the incomprehensible diagrams of rejected Shapes with no moral standing. |
57 |
NIGHT TRAVELER |
"Dreams You Don't Forget" |
Dreams You Don't Forget |
We sit there in bad light for long enough |
58 |
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro |
"@calígula2K25" |
single |
that time could have passed if it were willing, |
59 |
Veintiuno |
"Nudes (feat. Chica Sobresalto)" |
Corazonada |
and we could reemerge into a reawoken world, |
60 |
Mujeres |
"Al Final Abrazos" |
single |
if that were any way it could ever work. |
61 |
Anabel Lee |
"Cuando Despiertas ROMO" |
single |
We underestimate patience's power, |
62 |
Fast Animals and Slow Kids |
"Cosa ci direbbe" |
single |
but we also misconstrue its domain. |
63 |
Karen Koltrane |
"Teorema" |
Movimiento 6 |
It is not the world outside that we are hoping will have changed, |
64 |
Dani Fernández |
"Clima Tropical" |
single |
is it us, |
65 |
Rosie the Rage |
"American Heartache" |
Imperfections |
it is all the fear and panic and cynicism that builds up inside of us. |
66 |
Prins Svart |
"Allt du ville ha" |
Sanning/Makt |
We know how to release it at once |
67 |
Gary Numan |
"Now and Forever" |
Now and Forever |
or never. |
68 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Mobile" |
single |
The skill we need, the gift, |
69 |
Sammy White |
"Running Away Tonight" |
single |
is the willingness to let the electricity hum steadily to just beneath our clothes, |
70 |
Saarkie |
"River Blues" |
single |
to just underneath the skin where we make the final decisions about exactly where the skin goes. |
71 |
Zu. |
"Let Me Go" |
single |
We may be captive in our own doubts, |
72 |
Toumani Diabaté |
"Mama Souraka" |
Kôrôlén |
but we are uncertain about the right truths. |
73 |
Hulisani |
"NDZUMBULULO (CORONA)" |
single |
We will be issued teleologies of restoration, |
74 |
Bliss n Eso |
"Good People (feat. Kasey Chambers)" |
single |
of apology, |
75 |
HYYTS |
"Avalanche" |
Avalanche +2 |
of overwhelmed memory. |
76 |
Omnia |
"Arcanum" |
Arcanum +1 |
You never know when you will survive until it's already happening, already perfect. |
77 |
Enbound |
"Beat It" |
single |
It's not the past we're trying to atone for, |
78 |
Vicky Psarakis |
"Panama" |
single |
it's what we were about to do, what we were ready to resort to |
79 |
Cole Rolland |
"You Broke Me First" |
single |
before everything changed, before arbitrary mercy. |
80 |
Violet Orlandi |
"Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" |
single |
The axe we need, the touch, the salvation mechanism, |
81 |
Letting Up Despite Great Faults |
"Call Your Girlfriend" |
single |
is the one that lets us go, and we start to go, and then it's still there waiting when we don't leave. |