1 |
CANDY GO!GO! |
"Understeer" |
Understeer +2 |
Music is a team sport that does not require losers |
2 |
CHiCO with HoneyWorks |
"我武者羅 (TV size)" |
single |
or even teams, |
3 |
BiSH |
"STACKiNG" |
single |
that doesn't go to penalties |
4 |
Fiore |
"Good by hello" |
UNFLITE 5 |
and even if it did, if you miss one people just play the ones where you didn't miss again. |
5 |
Seiko Oomori |
"PERSONA" |
PERSONA #1 |
Sports are good proxies for combat, |
6 |
MOSHIMO |
"化かし愛のうた" |
化かし愛のうた / 獅子奮迅フルスイング 2 |
but maybe it would have been smarter to actually eliminate the urge for combat |
7 |
miwa |
"神無-KANNA-" |
single |
rather than figuring out a way to give it corporate sponsors. |
8 |
Ryokuoushoku Shakai |
"アーユーレディー" |
single |
We need fewer zero-sum dilemmas, |
9 |
高野麻里佳 |
"New story" |
single |
more precedent for assuming that victory is a function of collective instead of relative strength, |
10 |
mimiQ_Lyric |
"Decide For Yourself" |
NOVA |
more exhibition games, |
11 |
CROSS VEIN |
"ICARUS" |
single |
more awareness that all flights are dances in the air. |
12 |
WORL'S END. |
"scarlet" |
CULTURE CLASSIC |
We are not, even temporarily, one palette of factional hue. |
13 |
CANDY GO!GO! |
"Color" |
Understeer 3 |
We are all of these colors and the ones for which we have no predefined words |
14 |
LEVEREVE |
"Reirou" |
Reirou / Raptus 2 |
but heartsurges and suspensions. |
15 |
Original God |
"Angel's Egg" |
The Story Of The Eye |
Our best ideas begin by drawing breaths |
16 |
Sullii |
"sleeping in your car" |
single |
and feeling powerfully bladeless. |
17 |
glaive |
"fuck this town" |
single |
Of course our cities are ghost towns or soullessly new; |
18 |
Lost Kings |
"Me Myself & Adderall" |
single |
of course our most plaintive stories digress; |
19 |
Anxiety Attacks! |
"Love Urself" |
single |
of course we feel mostly unsure. |
20 |
Laurenne / Louhimo |
"Time to Kill the Night" |
The Reckoning |
We need collaborations, and get rematches. |
21 |
Dialith |
"Ignite the Sky" |
Atrophy 4 |
We need to be watched over by starlight, |
22 |
Infinitum |
"Caught in a Trap" |
single |
not grazed by sunset. |
23 |
Yours Truly |
"Walk Over My Grave" |
single |
We need to be be resolutely united by existential threats |
24 |
Jordan Sweeto |
"Heartbeat" |
single |
and bouyantly amused by anything less. |
25 |
ayutthaya |
"stay" |
Split 7” 2 |
There are two sides to every shared story, |
26 |
SUPER BEAVER |
"東京流星群" |
名前を呼ぶよ 2 |
but they don't compete for possession of the truth, |
27 |
Royz |
"AFTER LIFE" |
LEON 3 |
they follow it from one point of intersection to another, |
28 |
WOMCADOLE |
"mirror" |
旅鴉の鳴き声 6 |
and thus extend it into dimensions, |
29 |
Earthists. |
"Home" |
single |
and thus complete it |
30 |
SymaG |
"逆光" |
single |
just tentatively enough for it to begin again. |
31 |
Tangerine Circus |
"The Conspiracy Chronicles" |
The Conspiracy Outtakes |
We never get two and a half hours into a novel and then say |
32 |
The Dark Atom |
"Aura" |
single |
that's enough, hobbits and dragons line up to settle this. |
33 |
Feuerschwanz |
"Schildmaid (feat. Saltatio Mortis)" |
single |
It says "and back again" right in the subtitle, after all. |
34 |
Dola |
"Wszystko odrośnie" |
Czasy |
We do not need to recuit adversity agents from within ourselves. |
35 |
Dom Zły |
"Burza" |
Śnisz bory tak gęste |
We are precariously adrift |
36 |
Lantlôs |
"Lich" |
single |
in the seemingly limitless unknown, |
37 |
Wolves In The Throne Room |
"Spirit of Lightning" |
Spirit of Lightning +1 |
torn between defying it |
38 |
Deafheaven |
"The Gnashing" |
The Gnashing +1 |
and seeing it as the unfolded manifestation of our own infinity. |
39 |
Wormwitch |
"The Wolves of Ossory" |
single |
Even more mercifully, music is a team sport that doesn't require winners. |
40 |
Rise to the Sky |
"End My Night" |
single |
We don't get two and a half minutes into a song and then say |
41 |
Toby Hitchcock |
"Changes" |
Changes |
that's enough, now play the bridge and then we all go fight in the streets |
42 |
New Arcades |
"Don't Stop Dreaming" |
single |
and deface and then redeem murals of our heroes. |
43 |
Twin Shadow |
"I Wanna Be Here (Shotgun)" |
Twin Shadow |
We are not subject to the rules, |
44 |
Efecto Mariposa |
"Problema Existencial" |
single |
we are object and agent. |
45 |
Dulce María |
"Amigos con derechos" |
single |
We are synergists |
46 |
Karol Sevilla |
"Nadie Te Entiende" |
single |
and commiserists, |
47 |
Cassadee Pope |
"Say It First" |
Say It First +1 |
and memorists of the touches that release us |
48 |
Belles |
"Strangers Again" |
single |
as much as the ones that pretend they will never let us go. |
49 |
Mitchell Tenpenny |
"Truth About You" |
single |
Our fight songs are journals of our struggles |
50 |
Donovan Woods |
"Being Together" |
single |
to not externalize regret. |
51 |
Joy Oladokun |
"brick by brick" |
in defense of my own happiness |
Every emergence from sorrow is a quiet step towards joy. |
52 |
LP |
"Goodbye" |
single |
We never, sadly, get two hours into a fight and then say |
53 |
Orla Gartland |
"You're Not Special, Babe" |
You're Not Special, Babe 5 |
that's enough, the next Scrabble game settles this. |
54 |
Tinashe |
"Bouncin" |
single |
We rarely get two hours into a fight and recognize it for attempted choreography of acceptance |
55 |
Little Simz |
"I Love You, I Hate You" |
single |
in life, but in our songs we are more generous, |
56 |
Heaven Marina |
"Fuck It Up" |
single |
or somehow at least more self-aware. |
57 |
The toten Crackhuren im Kofferraum (The TCHIK) |
"Bewerte mich" |
single |
Songs of defiance |
58 |
Amyl and The Sniffers |
"Guided By Angels" |
single |
are not attempts to deny mutuality, but to direct it, |
59 |
TsuShiMaMiRe |
"SHOT YOU" |
single |
to take us two and a half minutes into a maelstrom |
60 |
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir |
"Hit the Corner" |
Marriage License |
distracted by its own precession |
61 |
Luukas Oja |
"Pysytään" |
single |
and helplessly constructed to resolve. |
62 |
Ginebras |
"La Ciudad Huele a Sudor" |
single |
Of course our cities fray and seethe, |
63 |
Nat Simons |
"Big Bang" |
single |
and explode into any surrounding unoccupied space. |
64 |
Oihan |
"La Playa" |
single |
The seas rise at an infinitesimal fraction of the speed with which we run into them. |
65 |
End Street |
"Tila Tala" |
single |
We are not at war with the water surrounding |
66 |
No Space To Grow |
"Sleep Alone" |
single |
or composing us, |
67 |
Sam Fender |
"Seventeen Going Under" |
Seventeen Going Under +2 |
not exiled from the churches made by water carriers, |
68 |
Nominee |
"Wrah Wrah" |
single |
not marooned on these surfaces. |
69 |
Badflower |
"Family" |
single |
Love is a challenge that cannot be reductively bounded, |
70 |
44phantom |
"problems" |
die sometime, it's good for u |
cannot be put behind us |
71 |
Young Culture |
"Godspeed" |
Godspeed +1 |
or even in front of us. |
72 |
SmuggzyAce |
"Woi and Oi" |
single |
Our commemorative images witness our present streets, |
73 |
250 kg kärlek |
"Jag vill inte gifta mig" |
single |
filled with protests and then parades |
74 |
Ayaka Ozubulu |
"Chukwuebuka" |
Chukwuebuka |
and then echoes, |
75 |
William Tyler |
"Memory Garden" |
Understand 4 |
and then, in what passes loudly for quiet, just space |
76 |
Rothko |
"Meet Her When She Shakes" |
single |
in the shape of coexistence, |
77 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"MONOLITH" |
RUINS |
and then whatever debris our convulsive collective dreams left behind last night. |
78 |
Alex Yarmak |
"Monochrome" |
single |
Of course our civilizations are performatively doomed, |
79 |
Fred Bouchal |
"I'm Possible" |
single |
sentimentally undaunted |
80 |
Dream Ocean |
"The Phantom of the Opera" |
single |
and repeatedly majestic. |
81 |
Annie |
"Just Like Honey" |
single |
You don't get 36 years into a songlife and then say |
82 |
Will Young |
"Crying on the Bathroom Floor" |
Crying on the Bathroom Floor +3 |
that's enough, the next cover will be the last. |
83 |
Ready Steady Steroids |
"good 4 u" |
single |
Sometimes it takes decades, sometimes only a couple weeks |
84 |
Our Last Night |
"good 4 u" |
single |
before it's ruefully and triumphantly clear that songs and lives and joys don't end that way, and in the morning, heartbroken but unsilenced, we get to sing them all again. |