1 |
Azure |
"The Jester Who Cheated Death" |
Of Brine And Angel's Beaks |
Look what we can do, these creatures we are. |
2 |
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Laco |
"Hands Up to the Sky" |
Avid / Hands Up to the Sky 5 |
We crawled out of the mud, under the infinite unreachable sky, |
3 |
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir |
"My Second Universe" |
Marriage License 5 |
and made a new universe out of nothing but ideas and salt and wires and yearning. |
4 |
ayutthaya |
"そうでもない" |
single |
We didn't know, when we started singing, |
5 |
ヨルシカ |
"又三郎" |
single |
that the glittering expanses between the stars |
6 |
Unwave |
"Get Over" |
Get Over / Just Fine 2 |
do not transmit sound or thus love. |
7 |
postman |
"ダイヤモンド" |
single |
We had not yet learned that we didn't need the gods' approval |
8 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"小さきものたち" |
INTO THE DEEP 4 |
if we had their technology. |
9 |
Esprit D'Air |
"Glaciers" |
Glaciers +2 |
We didn't know we would miss all of this ice as soon as it's gone. |
10 |
Hiroto |
"change of ace" |
single |
Our arms are full of pieces of broken cold |
11 |
kobore |
"HIGHWAY" |
Orange 6 |
and the fleeing glaciers leave behind paths, |
12 |
odol |
"独り" |
はためき |
but they converge in an empty place. |
13 |
Kirkkovene |
"Älä lähde vielä" |
single |
Our retreat ends with our backs pressed warmly against the backs of our enemies, |
14 |
Merta |
"Kipinä" |
single |
and nothing left to do but build a city of gifts. |
15 |
Mercury Circle |
"Black Mirrors" |
single |
Maybe we have never been as good at building new cities in emptiness |
16 |
Francois van Coke |
"Ons Het Gewen" |
single |
as we were at building golf courses on ancestral lands, |
17 |
Cara Calma |
"VMDV" |
single |
but we have been equal for moments in ruins, |
18 |
The Joy Formidable |
"Chimes" |
Chimes +2 |
called away from prayers, |
19 |
PRONOUN |
"SOUND THE ALARMS!!!1!" |
OMG I MADE IT 5 |
poised, tantalizingly, to unite. |
20 |
Poppy |
"Breeders" |
EAT (NXT Soundtrack) 5 |
We promise our children a better world, |
21 |
TeZATalks |
"NYSM" |
single |
and fail to deliver it |
22 |
K.Flay |
"Dating My Dad (feat. Travis Barker)" |
Dating My Dad (feat. Travis Barker) +2 |
by a smaller margin every generation. |
23 |
Hot Milk |
"I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I'M DEAD" |
single |
What happens when you're dead, if you've lived well, |
24 |
Blame Me! |
"To Ashes" |
The Invisible You |
is that other people pick up your inventory while you re-spawn, |
25 |
Crashing Atlas |
"Wake Up" |
Wake Up 6 |
or continue obliviously onwards in all the directions you secretly pointed them. |
26 |
We Are the Catalyst |
"Shallow Ground" |
Shallow Ground +1 |
You die a little every day, |
27 |
Nekonomicon |
"Heroes out of Time" |
single |
which gives you thousands of chances to partly die with some spark of purpose, |
28 |
Celtian |
"El Hijo del Ayer" |
single |
and be reborn as your own hero, |
29 |
Война Осколков |
"Пламя Гнева" |
single |
or, if you'd rather, to be immolated by your own frustrated anger. |
30 |
Laurenne / Louhimo |
"The Reckoning" |
single |
What have we become? |
31 |
Powerwolf |
"Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend (feat. Alissa White-Gluz)" |
Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend (feat. Alissa White-Gluz) +1 |
Creatures crawling out of oceans and back into the magma mouths of hell, |
32 |
Metalwings |
"Wonders of Life" |
A Whole New Land |
or jubillant fugitives from tidal despair? |
33 |
Gacharic Spin |
"MindSet" |
single |
We didn't know, when we started singing, that the rocks were listening for things they could remind us of later. |
34 |
Warrel Dane |
"Everything Is Fading" |
Praises To The War Machine (2021 Extended Edition) |
What happens when you're dead, if you sing with your soul while you have it, |
35 |
Thyrfing |
"Järnhand" |
single |
is that the world you leave behind |
36 |
Mother of All |
"Age of the Solipsist" |
Age of the Solipsist |
spins forward. |
37 |
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter |
"Ymir" |
Ymir +2 |
Dizzy, our arms full of each other's tenuous bodies |
38 |
Love // Paranoia |
"Fluorescent Shade of Gloom" |
single |
and adamantine dreams, |
39 |
Dom Zły |
"Gorycz" |
single |
we turn until our most recent loss is behind us, |
40 |
Rise to the Sky |
"Per Aspera Ad Astra" |
single |
and then we look up. |
41 |
Second to Sun |
"Nachtgast" |
Nachtgast +1 |
And then we take a breath, and look down again. |
42 |
Mastiff |
"Endless" |
single |
The sky is endless, |
43 |
Wolves In The Throne Room |
"Mountain Magick" |
single |
the ground is close enough to touch; |
44 |
Withered |
"Dissolve" |
single |
which one is a more apt metaphor for oblivion? |
45 |
Lantlôs |
"Magnolia" |
single |
Maybe we have never been as good at growing flowers |
46 |
Botanist |
"Antirrhinum" |
single |
as we have been at naming them with hopeful reassignments of our fears as dragons, |
47 |
Dornenreich |
"Sie machen Mangel zum Geschenk" |
Du wilde Liebe sei |
or misconstruing their significance as glorifying mortality. |
48 |
Versengold |
"Die wilde Jagd" |
single |
We have searched, spear in hand, for fountains of youth or peace, |
49 |
Trna |
"Shining" |
single |
and then, lakeside, perplexed, dipped the sharp point into oat milk, |
50 |
Terra Odium |
"Crawling" |
Ne Plus Ultra |
and thought "Wait, when we started crawling, where did we think we were trying to go?" |
51 |
Azure |
"Lustre: Siphon Of Umbra" |
Of Brine And Angel's Beaks |
We have reached and replaced more goals than we have words. |
52 |
CVLTE |
"robbers. (feat. wstdyth)" |
praystation 2 |
The words are new, |
53 |
Senses |
"on&off" |
single |
just one of the uncountable and undescribable victories |
54 |
A Few Too Many |
"Unhealthy" |
single |
that aren't yet enough. |
55 |
Becko |
"Kawaii Suicide" |
Kawaii Suicide (feat. IN6N) |
What happens when you're dead, if you died with spectacle, |
56 |
Structures |
"Planet of Garbage" |
single |
if that other people gather up the trash the spectators strewed, |
57 |
Hacktivist |
"Hyperdialect" |
single |
and light it on fire in the streets. |
58 |
Scarlxrd |
"Yxu Knxw What I'm Like." |
single |
We don't know, when we start screaming, |
59 |
Poppy |
"Dark Dark World" |
EAT (NXT Soundtrack) 5 |
whether we are on our way towards silence or refrain, |
60 |
Olly Anna |
"Ready Set Go" |
Ready Set Go 5 |
but we always find out before long, |
61 |
WARGASM (UK) |
"PYRO PYRO" |
Your Patron Saints / PYRO PYRO 2 |
and it's never nothing on fire and quiet. |
62 |
Gurldoll |
"Condemned" |
Of Unsound Mind 5 |
We take breaths rarely untinged by smoke, |
63 |
Class Actress |
"Saint Patrick" |
Sense Memory 5 |
and redraw the picture |
64 |
Oakland Rain |
"Sløret" |
Mellom fregnene |
of some evasive shape that might be you and I in a kiss, |
65 |
Geographer |
"Hollow (Do You?)" |
single |
or arguing about the right word for the space described by a border. |
66 |
Sleeper |
"Tell Me Where You're Going" |
This Time Tomorrow |
We give new names to our destinations |
67 |
PRONOUN |
"HALF OF THE TIME" |
OMG I MADE IT 5 |
without moving, |
68 |
Dizzy |
"Primrose Hill at Midnight" |
Separate Places 5 |
and then we get there and realize that the names on the maps are nowhere on the ground. |
69 |
Ana Torroja |
"Paraíso" |
single |
The streets are marked with infinite and shifting colors, |
70 |
Lucah |
"Yo Me Quedo" |
single |
and lined with everything we ever said we wanted |
71 |
Despistaos |
"Vulnerables (feat. La Oreja de Van Gogh)" |
single |
and people who have nowhere else to go. |
72 |
Nek |
"Un'estate normale" |
single |
Tomorrow will be different, |
73 |
Vico da sporo |
"Ethekwini - Original mix" |
single |
but all of these days on land have been different. |
74 |
DJ Clock |
"Do I Qualify" |
Do I Qualify +1 |
We didn't know, when we stood up and started walking, |
75 |
Okmalumkoolkat |
"Usang'khumbula (Cleaning Mbiza Skit) - King B Remix" |
100k Macassette Mixtape |
that the only direction you can't walk is away. |
76 |
Manga Saint Hilare |
"Don't Just Sit There. Do Something." |
single |
What happens when you don't die, if you are willing, |
77 |
Dappy |
"Bolo (feat. Abra Cadabra)" |
Bolo (feat. Abra Cadabra) +2 |
is magic and redemption. |
78 |
Sufyvn |
"Portraits" |
Pseudarhythm, Vol. 3 |
Look at us. |
79 |
NNAMDÏ |
"Lonely Weekend" |
single |
We are united by loneliness |
80 |
Odonis Odonis |
"Trust" |
Trust / In The Fire 2 |
and saved by noise. |
81 |
SARPARANTA |
"Rakkauslaulu" |
single |
Our arms are full of all the same things we have always carried, burdens and flags, |
82 |
Raidat |
"Haluun elää" |
single |
and each day we choose places to put some of them down |
83 |
Radiofire |
"Dance With You" |
single |
until the only things left fit into our pockets, and no longer constrain our choices about how we move, |
84 |
Azure |
"Ameotoko II - Cloudburst" |
Of Brine And Angel's Beaks |
how much we can do with how little. |
85 |
The Bunny The Bear |
"Blinding Lights" |
single |
Tomorrow the maps will have the same names, |
86 |
Erato |
"I Love It" |
single |
but the people and the cities will be different. |