1 |
Glassgod |
"Mankind" |
Mankind +1 |
You are one voice among many, but so are all the others. This does not necessitate deference. If you want to use your 12 minute album-finale about humanity as your advance single, there are no grooves to stop you. |
2 |
Temtris |
"Race to the End" |
Ritual Warfare |
All rules are ritual, in the first place, |
3 |
Burning Witches |
"The Witch of the North" |
The Witch of the North +1 |
storm circles to be defied as readily by escape as incursion, |
4 |
Soulglass |
"At the Edge of the Nightmare" |
Odeth |
or illusory shapes implied by themselves-notional boundaries. |
5 |
Carpathia |
"Armonica" |
single |
These songs of ice and fire tease us with teleological seasons, |
6 |
Celtian |
"Magia de Luna" |
single |
and we tolerate their hubris fondly, |
7 |
Starkill |
"Cloudless" |
single |
toying with our weather-control spheres in our off hands, |
8 |
Synlakross |
"Oscilloscope" |
0K4M1 |
waiting for private signals. |
9 |
Spiritbox |
"Circle With Me" |
single |
Voices combine. |
10 |
The Dreamside |
"There Is Magic to Be Done" |
single |
You are never too immortal for a comeback album, |
11 |
Seven Spires |
"The Cursed Muse" |
single |
or too doomed for a furious idyl of catharsis and forgiveness. |
12 |
Aryem |
"Reborn" |
Reborn +1 |
Simpler to just stipulate every day as a new beginning, |
13 |
Sojourner |
"Perennial" |
single |
and embrace the responsibilities this implies: |
14 |
Cran Arcanaria |
"Obsession" |
single |
to follow trivial leads to their consequential sources |
15 |
SHINGEKI |
"BAD CAKE" |
single |
or where they crash roilingly into other water |
16 |
#f606 |
"Haikei, MirainoBokurae" |
Haikei, MirainoBokurae +2 |
already set for hidden oceans; |
17 |
CHiCO with HoneyWorks |
"スーパーアイドル(笑)" |
冒険のVLOG 4 |
to walk along the edge of vertigo |
18 |
ReoNa |
"ないない" |
single |
and learn to pronounce the silent syllables of lost languages; |
19 |
RAINASH |
"End of the World" |
single |
to pick the treaures you are willing to lose |
20 |
Pimm's |
"YES" |
single |
as gifts to the future; |
21 |
Puffy AmiYumi |
"Pathfinder" |
single |
to find your way into and out of cartoon worlds |
22 |
sui sui |
"Sobaniarumono" |
single |
initially indistinguishable from this beautiful one. |
23 |
Stand Atlantic |
"deathwish (feat. nothing,nowhere.)" |
single |
By the time the pieces fall, |
24 |
lieu |
"why would i" |
donating all streams for t/b surgeries |
we have forgotten how we gather in fascination around new-formed cracks, |
25 |
Frost Children |
"Crunk Crisis" |
Elixir Rejection |
debating their motives, |
26 |
mental |
"after you" |
single |
oblivious to their methodical extents. |
27 |
Lontalius |
"I Walked Right Into It" |
Someone Will Be There For You |
In retrospect, we always had enough time to react, |
28 |
AVA AKIRA |
"Rockstar" |
single |
but we mistook it for currency. |
29 |
BUNNY |
"All-New, All-Different" |
All-New, All-Different |
We had two tickets to paradise, |
30 |
unknxwn. |
"XXI." |
single |
and we sat in our rooms, waiting for the password-reset emails |
31 |
Ryan Oakes |
"RUSSIAN ROULETTE" |
RUSSIAN ROULETTE +1 |
from indiscriminate resale aggregators |
32 |
Scarlxrd |
"Hate Me Then." |
single |
until the date had passed. |
33 |
Gojira |
"New Found" |
Fortitude |
Nobody wants your discarded paradise |
34 |
Bloodbound |
"March into War" |
March into War +2 |
except the person you were |
35 |
Dwell in Doom |
"Tragic Tale" |
Tragic Tale +1 |
when you had two more tokens of hope than now. |
36 |
Lord Of The Lost |
"Priest" |
Priest +1 |
But that train? |
37 |
Crippled Black Phoenix |
"Painful Reminder" |
single |
It runs every two hours, except only twice on Sundays, |
38 |
Metsatöll |
"Tarede Vaikuses" |
single |
and it's never full. |
39 |
Thy Catafalque |
"Szarvas" |
single |
The most wrong thing about proffered Elysium is that it's a place, |
40 |
Dödsrit |
"Apathetic Tongues" |
single |
but the most corrosive wrong thing is the idea that, if it were a place, it would be only one. |
41 |
Borgne |
"The Swords of the Headless Angels" |
single |
When you realize that the tickets are plentiful and cheap, |
42 |
Dordeduh |
"În vieliștea uitării" |
single |
and your antibodies believe in travel again, |
43 |
Ciel Nordique |
"Kamouraska" |
single |
and you get on that half-full train, |
44 |
Fenris Vrede |
"Torden" |
Viking |
you will find it a quarter full of commuters |
45 |
Akhenaten |
"Halls of Amenti" |
THE EMERALD TABLETS OF THOTH |
who bought condos in paradise back when it was affordable, |
46 |
Dir En Grey |
"朧 (Oboro)" |
朧 (Oboro) +2 |
finally returning in staggered shifts to their jobs in the exactly-half-empty buildings you know as the Pokémon gyms reachable from your house. |
47 |
Esprit D'Air |
"Nebulae" |
Nebulae +2 |
Out the righthand windows, |
48 |
FEST VAINQUEUR |
"HEAT HAZE" |
ELEMENT 6 |
graduate students are learning to sail, |
49 |
Rides In ReVellion |
"Keikoku" |
single |
and the new bridge you dreaded is almost done and already glittering. |
50 |
the Raid. |
"東京酸欠ヒロイン" |
東京酸欠ヒロイン +2 |
Out the left, the next and previous trains are going the other way. |
51 |
RAZOR |
"Future Pleasure Garden" |
PARASITE INVISIBLE 6 |
Wherever you go, somebody else just left, |
52 |
DARRELL |
"PHANTOM" |
single |
sick to death of this paradise's corrupt management, |
53 |
WANIMA |
"旅立ちの前に" |
single |
heading self-righteously for exactly where you came from. |
54 |
Four Get Me A Nots |
"RPG" |
DEAR 6 |
Half of our glorious harmonies |
55 |
[Alexandros] |
"閃光" |
single |
are fortuitous momentary Doppler effects |
56 |
Novelbright |
"開幕宣言" |
開幕宣言 |
as we flee each other's dreams. |
57 |
I Don't Like Mondays. |
"愛言葉" |
single |
The only thing voices always are is many, |
58 |
Aleks Syntek |
"Te Vi" |
Anatomía del Amor |
but the acoustic and emotional capacities of the air are both vast. |
59 |
Pole. |
"Tutto Bene" |
single |
We sing for the departed, |
60 |
Arde Bogotá |
"Cariño" |
single |
and they say "we hear you, we didn't get very far", |
61 |
Snowy Shaw |
"Tell me, Tell Me" |
single |
or "come on, come see what we found". |
62 |
Toby Hitchcock |
"Forward" |
single |
All flight is flight. |
63 |
Poverty's No Crime |
"Supernatural" |
A Secret to Hide |
These songs of gods of fire and ice tempt us with shortcuts |
64 |
Perturbator |
"Excess" |
Excess +1 |
more arduous than the paths we were on, |
65 |
Blutengel |
"The Victory of Light" |
single |
night hymns to dawn, |
66 |
Kayak |
"Out of This World" |
single |
ornamental itineraries for the soulbound. |
67 |
LEVARA |
"Ordinary" |
Ordinary 5 |
The perfect moment for decisive weather ball intervention comes, |
68 |
Origami Angel |
"Self-Destruct" |
Gami Gang |
and that's when you realize it doesn't actually sync with your new phone, |
69 |
Defeatist UK |
"Oceans Apart" |
Closure 5 |
but also that everything important is mostly water to begin with. |
70 |
Nightly |
"lover/loner" |
single |
Clouds and earth, loneliness and reunification: these are voices, and voices combine. |
71 |
Lights |
"Beside Myself" |
single |
It's a long taxi ride to find anything when you haven't been in a car with strangers for a year, |
72 |
Ina Wroldsen |
"Fires" |
single |
never mind a train or a firewind or a rebellion. |
73 |
CLEWS |
"Overluck" |
single |
Every word you say is a standard against which your comeback albums will be judged, |
74 |
Julia Michaels |
"Pessimist" |
Not In Chronological Order |
but of course also the reason why anybody will care. |
75 |
Sharon Van Etten |
"Some Things Last A Long Time" |
Let Go b/w Some Things Last A Long Time 2 |
Discarded paradises are free to collect. |
76 |
Menta |
"Ocho Domingos" |
não não 4 |
Collected voices combine. |
77 |
Kwesta |
"Snakes In The Crib" |
g.o.d guluva |
We sing for the undecided, |
78 |
Makhadzi |
"Muvhili Wanga" |
single |
whether we recognize ourselves among them or not, |
79 |
Vico da sporo |
"Patapata" |
single |
or realize we have begun to practice their accents, |
80 |
Moise Mbiye |
"Ko Kabola Congo te" |
single |
as if we know that the new bridge changes more than just traffic. |
81 |
Kasai Allstars |
"Like a Dry Leaf on a Tree" |
Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound |
Out the windows in your heart, people are taking turns standing under streetlights, or in forests, |
82 |
Del Amitri |
"You Can't Go Back" |
You Can’t Go Back 3 |
and finding what you want is like trying to divide memory from regret. |
83 |
Kings of Convenience |
"Rocky Trail" |
single |
The streets will unempty. |
84 |
Oakland Rain |
"Så kom livet" |
single |
Scattered voices recombine. |
85 |
Priscilla Block |
"Heels In Hand" |
Priscilla Block 6 |
Your shoes, at least, still fit. |
86 |
T'Pau |
"Guess Who's Sorry Now" |
single |
Our mistakes will triumphantly resume. |
87 |
Ira Losco |
"Tbissem" |
single |
If you'd known you were going to have a year, you could have learned Maltese, but all the islands are surrounded by the same oceans, |
88 |
Violet Orlandi |
"Hellfire" |
single |
and admonished from the same burned churches. |
89 |
Broken Peach |
"Wake Me Up" |
single |
We sing for the departed, and they say "there you are". |