1 |
Sara |
"Sileä tie" |
single |
I am voiced by words I do not know |
2 |
Hanging Garden |
"Kuura" |
Skeleton Lake |
at least as truly as by my remaining clothes |
3 |
Insomnium |
"The Reticent" |
The Reticent +1 |
or your caverns of longing. |
4 |
HAVAMAL |
"Jormungandr" |
The Shadow Chapter |
We do not find ourselves by applying schemata to advocacies |
5 |
Powerwolf |
"Beast of Gévaudan" |
single |
in search of things we already know endorsed by established scions. |
6 |
As December Falls |
"Nothing On You" |
Nothing On You +3 |
Or maybe that's exactly what we too often try, |
7 |
Conquer Divide |
"Messy" |
single |
like throwing a gleaming needle into a tuft of hay, lit pale by low afternoon light, |
8 |
Divided Island |
"Twice as Bright" |
single |
and then burning the field to get it back, charred useless. |
9 |
Osatia |
"When Will I Learn" |
single |
There are better ways to care for your tools, |
10 |
Awake Again |
"Busy Doing Nothing" |
single |
and the land has other dreams. |
11 |
Nergard |
"God Forgive My Haunted Mind" |
Eternal White |
We do not need to find ourselves. |
12 |
Seas on the Moon |
"The Regress" |
single |
We are not lost. |
13 |
Neperia |
"I, Liar" |
I, Liar +1 |
More than anything, we are not lost enough. |
14 |
Tulip |
"Sidewinder" |
single |
We find out about ourselves by more extension, |
15 |
Cydefect |
"Muutused" |
single |
more inversion, |
16 |
Intra |
"Time Has Come to Go" |
single |
more release of ourselves into uncertainty. |
17 |
Bjorth |
"Wanderer" |
Midgard Rising 4 |
We walk the stations of ritual as tourists, |
18 |
8bitBRAIN |
"Why fight!?" |
Black Sabbath 5 |
and then again as entangled avatars |
19 |
KAMEN RIDER GIRLS |
"Anything Goes!" |
starting point 3 |
of our own ambivalence. |
20 |
BATTEN GIRLS |
"Barikata Pride" |
single |
The things you know you believe settle within you |
21 |
PRSMIN |
"PRSLIVE" |
prism incident by love |
until you can no longer distinguish them from the mundane. |
22 |
BOY MEETS HARU |
"BOY MEETS THE END" |
haruwatorisugikimito 6 |
In this way they become at once your power and your anticipation, |
23 |
♯ババババンビ |
"星形" |
single |
and you gift the world one more way to accept change. |
24 |
BiS |
"LOVE" |
single |
I am defended by dust-spirits and gazes that move across me without stopping. |
25 |
halca |
"キミがいたしるし" |
キミがいたしるし 5 |
I do not know you, |
26 |
AIBECK |
"LAKE MAD GO" |
single |
but I will carry you into your threatening clouds |
27 |
plums |
"僕の世界" |
episode |
and then out again, both of us scoured and remagnetized, |
28 |
Castaway |
"Kaleidoscope" |
Kaleidoscope +1 |
into the fadeout of a day spinning away under us, |
29 |
BUMP OF CHICKEN |
"なないろ" |
single |
into a waiting night that urges us to glow in concurrent langauges. |
30 |
LiSA |
"Letters to ME" |
LADYBUG |
We will look at each other and nod, |
31 |
DIALOGUE+ |
"Sugar Rocket" |
Omoide Shiritori 5 |
not because we know what any of this means |
32 |
B.O.L.T |
"スマイルフラワー" |
スマイルフラワー +3 |
but because for a moment we are excused from meaning |
33 |
Seiko Oomori |
"Rude" |
single |
and responsible only for this carefully shared air. |
34 |
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir |
"Odoby" |
Marriage License 2 |
So much time spent pretending we know what the story signifies |
35 |
Ravenna Golden |
"R U Joking" |
single |
while we're in it, |
36 |
BABii |
"HUNTED (feat. umru)" |
MiiRROR |
but of course that never works. |
37 |
CVLTE |
"heartbreak." |
single |
We are only ever sure, at best, who the fragments of our story |
38 |
lil aaron |
"THAT ONE SONG" |
single |
are considered to depict under hypothetical reassembly. |
39 |
Moonrunner83 |
"In The Palm Of My Hands" |
In The Palm Of My Hands (feat. Sarah Stephenson) 5 |
When have you ever looked up |
40 |
PRONOUN |
"I’M RIGHT BACK IN IT" |
I’M RIGHT BACK IN IT +1 |
from where you were told to bow, |
41 |
CLEWS |
"Cuban Heel" |
Loveluck Omens 4 |
and seen yourself outlined in stained glass? |
42 |
Mannequin Pussy |
"To Lose You" |
Perfect 5 |
Worship is solipsism masquerading as faith, |
43 |
Sleeper |
"We Should Be Together" |
single |
or maybe cogently explaining its limits. |
44 |
Hemliga Klubben |
"Du kommer dra" |
Tills alla glömt oss |
The corrosivity of religion is not its infrastructural corruption, |
45 |
Karol Sevilla |
"Desde hoy" |
single |
but the central disingenuous misdirection of belief as an end. |
46 |
Lydia Ainsworth |
"Queen of Darkness" |
Sparkles & Debris |
Sing every song like the only refrain it seeks is |
47 |
Shungudzo |
"I'm not a mother, but I have children" |
I'm not a mother, but I have children 5 |
"Everything you have ever known is wrong", |
48 |
Eädyth |
"Cydraddoldeb i Ferched" |
single |
and the notes flutter away from you and can only be coaxed back in Welsh. |
49 |
Derya |
"Cenaze" |
single |
You have to not want even one single truth. |
50 |
Nyon'Emhlophe |
"Nto Nto Nto !" |
Icala lezinqa |
You have to be able to walk into an old king's hall with a sword |
51 |
Robinio Mundibu |
"Nzete" |
single |
and demonstrate by your hands and your love that it is more dance-prop than weapon, |
52 |
Angelique Kidjo |
"Africa, One Of A Kind" |
single |
and you are the oracle of the sun, |
53 |
Zu. |
"Believe" |
Ndim Netshomi Zam |
and all the sun wants is for all of us to come back outside and dance. |
54 |
Rey Sapienz |
"Eza Makambo" |
single |
We are ambassadors of floating countries we have not yet named, |
55 |
Mdou Moctar |
"Taliat" |
Afrique Victime |
and will not constitute by allegiance. |
56 |
LICK |
"CRACKS" |
single |
If you pick a home by who isn't there, |
57 |
Colin Stetson |
"Beyond the Break" |
single |
then its walls exist to protect the rest of them from your fear, |
58 |
Verge |
"New Dawn" |
Fluid Motion |
and won't long hold. |
59 |
An Autumn for Crippled Children |
"Of Your Light" |
As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes |
We do not save ourselves by placing ever-thicker lenses between ourselves |
60 |
Panopticon |
"Dead Loons" |
...And Again Into the Light |
and the people who do not see themselves in us. |
61 |
White Ward |
"Debemur Morti" |
single |
There are better ways to seek forgiveness, |
62 |
Tvær |
"I" |
Uvaer |
and to let the land absorb our dreams |
63 |
Borgne |
"Even If the Devil Sings into My Ears Again" |
Temps morts |
where they fall. |
64 |
Zgard |
"Ascension Fog" |
Place of Power |
You have to be able to walk into the excavated outline of a forgotten king's hall |
65 |
My Lonely Sea |
"Court" |
Gloom 3 |
and know that this is what all of your city's suburbs look like to the sun |
66 |
Burial In The Sky |
"An Orphaned City" |
single |
and the moon |
67 |
Vanvidd |
"Under ei Morken Rot" |
Under Ei Morken Rot |
when they argue over who will get all of this when we're gone. |
68 |
Supernova Plasmajets |
"Now or Never" |
single |
I do not know you, |
69 |
Kirkkovene |
"Ihan sama" |
single |
but together we can make them wait. |
70 |
Fayence Dream |
"You Took Me Now" |
single |
If we pick this home together, |
71 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"Show Yourself" |
single |
accepting that we barely grasp what that will imply, |
72 |
Dream |
"Mask" |
single |
then its rooms become terminals on a journey |
73 |
Gary Numan |
"The Chosen" |
Intruder |
that doesn't lead home, but follows it. |
74 |
Gregorio Franco |
"Enjoy the Silence" |
single |
If we share this little world, instead of pretending unconvincingly that we're only here on the way to a better one, |
75 |
Chris Chronos |
"The Sound of Silence" |
single |
then the way our voices overlap will form the words we need |
76 |
First to Eleven |
"All The Things She Said" |
single |
to explain everything. |