| 1 | Dash Berlin | "Waiting - Acoustic Mix" | Waiting | I can basically never hear Emma Hewitt's voice without diverting whatever path I was on to replay a few songs from Burn the Sky Down. It's her only solo album, and it came out 9 years ago, and there's no sign that she's ever going to pause her presumably-lucrative EDM guest-vocalist career to make another one. "Waiting" is even older, from 2009, the first of three collaborations with Dash Berlin, and this beatifically serene acoustic version, with Emma's brother and former Missing Hours bandmate Anthony playing guitar and Emma singing without evident processing, isn't new, either, and has been available on compilations before. But it was temporarily unstreamable until restored by this EP re-release, and that's enough to lose me into a trance of repetition. |
| 2 | The Connells | "Really Great" | single | Joy endures. Sometimes it collects in pools inside our bodies for 20 years until there's no solution but to make it into a new song, |
| 3 | beabadoobee | "He Gets Me So High" | Our Extended Play 4 | and let it flutter around the universe again. |
| 4 | caroline | "Everything for everyone" | Skydiving onto the library roof / Everything for everyone 2 | It is joy that marshals stars into formation, |
| 5 | Low | "Days Like These" | single | and accepts their radiation into our hearts, |
| 6 | Shamir | "Songs Remain" | single | and converts it into vibrations in the air that doesn't fill the spaces between them. |
| 7 | The Mountain Goats | "The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower" | Dark in Here | Particles and emptiness pass through these trivial rocks, yet digging is still bizarrely difficult, |
| 8 | Backxwash | "BURN TO ASHES" | I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES | and also reconciliation to pain. |
| 9 | Thy Catafalque | "Gömböc" | Vadak | The universally inconsequential can be locally complex, |
| 10 | Agrypnie | "Verwüstung" | single | the doomed self-elegiac, |
| 11 | Hiraes | "Shadows Break" | Solitary | the darkness illuminating. |
| 12 | Duskmourn | "Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns" | Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns | Our obtuse dysfunctions are not justified as morality plays, |
| 13 | Leprous | "Running Low" | single | but we who survive them earn the chance to be defined by our empathy |
| 14 | Manimal | "The Inevitable End" | The Inevitable End +1 | for the people we have so narrowly not become. |
| 15 | SuidAkrA | "A Shrine for the Ages" | Wolfbite | Reverence beckons us towards self-awareness |
| 16 | Powerwolf | "Dancing with the Dead" | Dancing with the Dead +2 | coyly, in elaborately costumed poses, |
| 17 | Anette Olzon | "Parasite" | single | daring us to mistake grandeur for significance |
| 18 | Celtian | "Nueva Era" | Sendas de Leyenda | and thus underestimate the power of ceremony. |
| 19 | Within Temptation | "Shed My Skin" | Shed My Skin 6 | We take off these clothes in layers, |
| 20 | September Mourning | "Falling Awake" | single | each one as revealing for the illusion it removes |
| 21 | Roses Unread | "Leave a Light On" | single | as for the incremental semblance of nakedness that remains. |
| 22 | Seven Spires | "Gods of Debauchery" | single | Will you be lead by the exemplary, or the exempt? |
| 23 | Oryad | "Sacrifice" | Hymns Of Exile & Decay | Or, to ask this question the other way, |
| 24 | Cran Arcanaria | "...with me" | single | do you assign yourself quests for direction, or vice versa? |
| 25 | Toyah | "Levitate" | single | Can you lift yourself off the earth? |
| 26 | Against The Current | "again&again" | again&again +2 | And, once lifted, can you find your way back to this surface? |
| 27 | The Foxies | "Summer Never Dies" | single | To these bucolic unresolved days? |
| 28 | mildrage | "Wirepuller" | EMERGENCE 5 | Into the collections of entrails |
| 29 | Dizzy Sunfist | "Never Again" | single | and ebulliences that define and surround us? |
| 30 | Houts | "Now or Never" | Now or Never +1 | We wait, watching you soar, |
| 31 | Seiko Oomori | "+゚*。:゚+(* ́∀`*)+゚:。*+ぴかりんFUTURE+゚*。:゚+(* ́∀`*)+゚:。*+" | single | or mistaking your hapless orthogonal plummeting for purpose, |
| 32 | PARADISES | "Season Song" | single | or enfolded in our memories of when we wore shoes like the ones in which you are falling, |
| 33 | GO TO THE BEDS | "Dear" | single | and the powers we thought they would give us, |
| 34 | NEO JAPONISM | "TRAUMA" | single | and how we discovered that we had had them, before. |
| 35 | 夕闇に誘いし漆黒の天使達 | "Super Ultimate Happy Happy Song" | 2枚目の夕闇に誘いし漆黒の天使達 | Joy emerges: |
| 36 | dltzk | "how to lie" | single | from successful evasion, |
| 37 | blackwinterwells | "PUNCHING BAG" | single | or helpless surrender to misunderstood fates, |
| 38 | New Sylveon | "М.О.Х." | single | or the way a stranger turns. |
| 39 | Scarlxrd | "Twx Txne." | single | You can reduce opportunity to rage, |
| 40 | Soul Glo | "YERRRNIN" | DisNigga, Vol. 2 3 | and thus shape your own responsibility into something visceral, |
| 41 | Cloud Rat | "Mother Tongue / Glitter Belly" | single | but the tasks for your body are not necessarily simpler than the ones for your worldviews, |
| 42 | Grale | "Seeing Red" | single | and outrage may turn out to not quite be the ore of insight. |
| 43 | Take Over And Destroy | "Anything Else" | Fade Out | None of these rocks are trivial, |
| 44 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "Curtain Dropped, New Stage Unlocked!" | Intercontinental Split 2 | nor the stories of how they accumulated in this orbit, |
| 45 | Dok Wol | "Morii" | Avenoir | but our transcriptions of them as interior design |
| 46 | The Anix | "Follow" | Follow | and cosmology |
| 47 | Roxi Drive | "Take my Chance" | Feel the Beat | are inevitably blueprints for the abandoned temples we propose to construct. |
| 48 | Florrie | "Street Lights" | single | As night takes over, I can almost feel you here. |
| 49 | Lucy Dacus | "First Time" | Home Video | We both can. |
| 50 | swim school | "anyway" | single | But the tasks for our bodies |
| 51 | Carina Dahl | "Helt OK" | single | may not be materially simplified by the layers we take off. |
| 52 | Christia Visser | "Beste Leuen Wen" | single | Our skin may not know better |
| 53 | HALIENE | "Make It To Tomorrow" | single | until it feels how the air moves against it, |
| 54 | Vaget | "Taniec Rusałki" | single | until firelight reaches through the heat |
| 55 | Laureline | "Care For Me" | single | to touch a specific point between our neck and our fears |
| 56 | Les Probo | "Possédé" | Possédé +2 | where our motivations attach. |
| 57 | Viva Suecia | "Parar La Tierra" | single | The layer of rock between you and the void is so thin, |
| 58 | Finde Fantasma | "Lejos de Aquí" | single | but everything you have ever loved is here in an even thinner layer on top of it, |
| 59 | GLAY | "青春は残酷だ" | single | revolving without expectation, |
| 60 | 己龍 | "zane" | manjushage | content only provisionally to fixate on the transient spectacular. |
| 61 | Aiolin | "Voyage" | AIOLIN BEST ~Revolutional Violinism~ | Even our most mundane preoccupations are inherently revolutionary, |
| 62 | Celtian | "Al Otro Lado del Camino" | Sendas de Leyenda | but all revolutions move you to somewhere you could see before. |
| 63 | Gealdýr | "Ragnarök" | Eptir Ragnarök | Radical change requires apocalypsis, |
| 64 | Nordein | "Midnattsopptreden" | Lyd | a way of circumscribing an era so that it can be named |
| 65 | Foresaga | "An Dro" | single | and ended. |
| 66 | Thy Catafalque | "Vadak (Az átváltozás rítusai)" | Vadak | Rituals of transformation are cargo-cult simulations of becoming, |
| 67 | Darkestrah | "The Gift of Mud and Venom" | single | but as with many apparently ineffectual systems, |
| 68 | Perilaxe Occlusion | "Fracturing the Voronoi" | Raytraces of Death 3 | they perserve our memory of interludes of indetermination |
| 69 | Bloody Falls | "Soul Ripper" | single | during the dark ages of certainty. |
| 70 | Saturnian Mist | "Ill-Mystic" | single | "Priest" is our word for guardians of the future |
| 71 | De Arma | "Days of Judgment" | Strayed in Shadows | who misunderstand their domain as the present. |
| 72 | Vazum | "Unspoken" | V+ | Can you lift yourself off the earth? There is only one answer, |
| 73 | Clan of Xymox | "Big Brother" | Big Brother | but just as many futures after accepting it as before. |
| 74 | Journey | "The Way We Used to Be" | single | Joy reforms. |
| 75 | Soul Asylum | "Stand Up And Be Strong - Single Edit" | single | Our instructions are simple, |
| 76 | Ryan Oakes | "SICK & TIRED" | single | and accomplish not very much, |
| 77 | Snow Tha Product | "Esto No A Terminado (This Isn't Over) [from The Forever Purge]" | single | but conclude nothing. |
| 78 | Sheebah | "By the Way" | Sheebah | As night falls, and leaves us standing, |
| 79 | Calva Louise | "Other Self" | single | we have a moment to consider who we will choose |
| 80 | Fast Animals and Slow Kids | "Senza deluderti" | single | from all the wishful conceptions of self we have entertained |
| 81 | Tulenkulkijat | "Hulluuden määritelmä" | single | with our inept but earnest dancing. |
| 82 | Wrest | "Second Wind" | single | Can you lift yourself forward through relentless time? |
| 83 | Sillaba | "Kanakassi" | Douma Jolo 5 | No, patently no, and yet here you are, |
| 84 | Ballaké Sissoko | "Jeu sur la symphonie fantastique 2" | single | exactly at the end of all of history so far. |
| 85 | Fernando Perdomo | "Couldn't I Just Tell You" | single | We write songs about the things we believe we have to say, and then play them as instrumentals. |
| 86 | CHVRCHES | "How Not To Drown - Robert Smith Remix" | How Not To Drown (feat. Robert Smith) [Robert Smith Remix] 2 | There are dusty unwritten books about whatever you need to know, |
| 87 | Dreadlight | "Good 4 U" | single | useless until you write your own, |
| 88 | The Last Sleepless City | "Good 4 U" | single | and coat it with your own dust. |
| 89 | T. Thomason | "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" | single | The sky falls the same way every time. It never learns. But we do. We learn to wait |
| 90 | Miley Cyrus | "Nothing Else Matters" | single | until joy is the only thing left. |