1 |
Kotak |
"Sayap-Sayap Garuda" |
single |
The world is not round or flat, but torn and peeling and falling constantly back in on itself. Dreams of birds and dragons are fantasies of immunity to these rifts. |
2 |
Dizzy Sunfist |
"Andy" |
Andy +3 |
But even the air has contours, |
3 |
Written by Wolves |
"Help Me Through the Night" |
single |
and scars from the rockets. |
4 |
Cassadee Pope |
"What The Stars See (feat. Karen Fairchild & Lindsay Ell)" |
single |
The stars see the same things you see, but with a better view of bald spots, and all the t-shirts and flags flattened to edges, |
5 |
The Joy Formidable |
"Back to Nothing" |
Back To Nothing 2 |
to short colorless lines. |
6 |
Slayyyter |
"Over This!" |
single |
We want to dance in the streets. |
7 |
Lydia Ainsworth |
"Cosmic Dust" |
single |
Transit is a pragmatic justification for infrastructure funding, |
8 |
Konomi Suzuki |
"Bursty Greedy Spider" |
TVアニメ「蜘蛛ですが、なにか?」後期オープニングテーマ「Bursty Greedy Spider」 4 |
as is calling it "infrastructure" |
9 |
BiSH |
"in case..." |
single |
instead of "space for dancing", |
10 |
BiS |
"TOUCH ME" |
single |
and once you consent to an argument couched in "need" instead of "want", |
11 |
AIBECK |
"Wake Up" |
single |
you commit to power fights, |
12 |
Ayumikurikamaki |
"サチアレ!!!" |
サチアレ!!! +1 |
which are always won, definitionally, by power. |
13 |
Violet Cold |
"Pride" |
Empire of Love |
We meet during revolutions, and choose by our actions whether the revolution was a last resort or a goal. |
14 |
The Fall of Eve |
"Special Part of Me" |
Beyond the Veil |
There is no peace between gods, |
15 |
Skarlett Riot |
"Underwater" |
Invicta |
because "gods" is our word for the part of ourselves that wants the senstation of individual moral superiority |
16 |
Lost Division |
"No God" |
single |
without the onoing work of collective moral reasoning. |
17 |
Torn Between Two Worlds |
"All Eyes On Me" |
single |
We are not chosen or cursed. |
18 |
Drown This City |
"Borderline Existence" |
single |
These fights over stolen land |
19 |
Война Осколков |
"Нечестивый Союз" |
Начало |
are unwinnable by virtue of their own terms. |
20 |
Nergard |
"Carry Me" |
single |
We cannot give our cities back to the earth |
21 |
Lost In Grey |
"Souffrir (feat. Emmanuelle Zoldan, Camille André, Andi Kravljaca, Nils Courbaron)" |
single |
and start over. |
22 |
False Memories |
"Erased" |
The Last Night of Fall |
Not, at least, to this Earth, |
23 |
Crowne |
"Perceval" |
single |
but maybe, as we look at Mars and contemplate starting over, |
24 |
Sabaton |
"Defence of Moscow" |
single |
we can start to see that colonialism is a disease you contract at home, |
25 |
Cvlt Ov the Svn |
"Another Infinity" |
We Are The Dragon |
not a contagion generated spontaneously by contact. |
26 |
Sonic Haven |
"Nightmares" |
Vagabond |
Even if this continent had been empty, |
27 |
Wardrum |
"Rise" |
single |
as its invaders so obdurately attempted to treat it, |
28 |
Sable Hills |
"Messiah" |
MESSIAH 2 |
they revealed their nature by bringing their own slaves. |
29 |
Kings Winter |
"Edge Of Existence" |
Edge Of Existence |
Mars is a fantasy destination until somebody proposes using it as a penal colony, |
30 |
Dawn Ray'd |
"Wild Fire, Pt. I" |
Wild Fire 2 |
and then it's just another desert in which we will build magnificent cities |
31 |
Non Serviam |
"O World, O Work!" |
Work |
and then fight over how to treat them as nations. |
32 |
[ówt krì] |
"Arcane Fields" |
Shards |
Look up from Mars and it's mostly the same sky. |
33 |
An Autumn for Crippled Children |
"Splendour Unnoticed" |
single |
You think that would help, if you'd never spent a lifetime hearing about a star over Bethlehem, |
34 |
Amenra |
"De Evenmens" |
single |
and then realized Bethlehem is an actual Palestinian town, |
35 |
Kataan |
"Vessel" |
Kataan 4 |
and Jerusalem is a labyrinth of felafel and halva and alternating layers of contradictory theologic certainty. |
36 |
Lantlôs |
"Lake Fantasy" |
single |
It's too late to just give anything back to anybody, |
37 |
XAAXAA |
"gogatsubyo" |
gogatsubyo 6 |
but this resignation assumes posession is a solution, |
38 |
Subway To Sally |
"IX (feat. Saltatio Mortis)" |
IX (feat. Saltatio Mortis) +1 |
assumes nations as combatants and diplomacy as combat by rhetorical proxy. |
39 |
The Guzmania |
"Calling" |
single |
The crusaders built cities with tunnels to the sea, |
40 |
Kayak |
"Traitor's Gate" |
Out Of This World |
and walls and gates with their own assumptions about who deserves protection from whom. |
41 |
Arde Bogotá |
"A Lo Oscuro" |
LA NOCHE |
We are tourists or rioters in their shells, |
42 |
GRAN ANGULAR |
"No debería temerte" |
single |
but we were tourists and rioters on the beaches where we crawled out of the reach |
43 |
Kokoshca |
"Asia (Canción para Iñaki Ochoa de Olza)" |
single |
of still-grasping water |
44 |
Young Empress |
"Saturday" |
single |
and sat there on the sand, comparing our shoes, |
45 |
Michael Oakley |
"Glasgow Song" |
Glasgow Song +3 |
calm for a moment before our territorial glands adjusted to the air temperature. |
46 |
RILEY THE MUSICIAN |
"Miss America" |
single |
The one thing we will never run out of on this rock is rock. |
47 |
Rostam |
"From The Back of a Cab" |
From The Back of a Cab 5 |
Rock Paper Scissors is the wishful version of the game we really play: |
48 |
Fickle Friends |
"Turns Me Bad" |
Weird Years (Season 2) 4 |
Rock Window. |
49 |
Sincere Engineer |
"Trust Me" |
Come out for a Spell 4 |
Courageous fragility against the muscle-memory of breaking the breakable, |
50 |
tricot |
"暴露" |
single |
the terrified urge to build walls against the curious impulse to see through them. |
51 |
Ashley Purdy |
"Not Ok" |
single |
We are not foresaken by our mistakes, |
52 |
Dentist |
"Let Me Let Go" |
single |
we are defined by them, |
53 |
Alex Lahey |
"On My Way" |
single |
and by how we do or don't forgive ourselves. |
54 |
Lisa Gerrard |
"Heleali (The Sea Will Rise)" |
Burn |
It will take the sea a long time to rise from the Dead to Temple Mount. |
55 |
Dobet Gnahoré |
"Rédemption" |
single |
You could drive it in an hour, if the roads were just roads, |
56 |
Zahara |
"Nyamezela" |
single |
if the desert were just sand, |
57 |
Caroline Grace |
"Breek" |
single |
if we didn't come to settle for fighting. |
58 |
Ana Guerra |
"Tik Tak" |
single |
We built these streets to dance in, |
59 |
P!nk |
"All I Know So Far" |
single |
and to hear bravely unheroic songs through the open windows of passing cars. |
60 |
dodie |
"Special Girl" |
Build A Problem |
We were doomed before we began, |
61 |
Wy |
"Come Here" |
Marriage |
but we still began. |
62 |
Justin Sullivan |
"Unforgiven" |
single |
Historically, we mostly made it jubillantly worse. |
63 |
Donovan Woods |
"IOWA" |
single |
We are waiting for our story to get good, |
64 |
Eddie Berman |
"Friend of the Devil" |
single |
reading disaster chapters, |
65 |
Lady Shocker |
"Facts - Freestyle" |
single |
writing ourselves plaintive escape-note in the margins, |
66 |
Little Simz |
"Woman" |
single |
trying to judge how many pages are left in our future hand |
67 |
VOLA |
"These Black Claws (feat. SHAHMEN)" |
These Black Claws 4 |
without actually counting them. |
68 |
Backxwash |
"I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES" |
single |
These are the dark pages, |
69 |
Hacktivist |
"Reprogram" |
single |
written on borrowed paper, or the buried walls of forgotten caves |
70 |
Becko |
"The Phoenix" |
The Phoenix |
or only temporarily abandoned subways. |
71 |
A Tergo Lupi |
"Ravens" |
Vesper |
These are still the dark ages. |
72 |
Haggefugg |
"Lasterkahn" |
single |
Our most conciliatory anthems |
73 |
Braia |
"Sabarabuçu" |
... E o mundo de cá |
say mainly that the darkness is not new. |
74 |
Aaron Espe |
"Unbelievable" |
single |
Some days we can say that we have at least seen worse. |
75 |
Musical Charis |
"Where Is My Mind" |
single |
And then there are bad days, and we can only say that we have had bad days before, and the earth did not take back its rocks or throw them through all of the windows. |
76 |
Glass Tides |
"Promises" |
single |
We have outlived empires of hatred without even entirely believing that there cannot be empires of love. |
77 |
Brass Against |
"Aerials" |
single |
We lose, again, today. We cannot give back this loss. But this means, too, that we will still have its broken pieces in our hands in the morning. |