1 |
Voices |
"Hostile Confrontations" |
An Audience of Mannequins 3 |
It can feel like the sky is broken into shards, but emptiness itself is mercifully impervious. |
2 |
Hamish Hawk |
"The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973" |
single |
The broken edges we feel when we enter into it, |
3 |
Detset |
"So Offended" |
single |
are our own, |
4 |
The Connells |
"Steadman's Wake" |
Steadman's Wake +1 |
normally held against us by gravity and atmosphere |
5 |
Skweletu |
"Bizani umndeni" |
Bizani umndeni |
and clothes made for body sizes we are slow to acknowledge. |
6 |
Navigator Gcwensa |
"Wenzeni U Ngizwe" |
single |
The maps we gather around ourselves, |
7 |
Ihhashi Elimhlophe |
"Mina Nawe" |
single |
as we prepare performatively to explore, |
8 |
Mashudu Nematoka |
"Duvha La Munyanya" |
single |
are the tartan of a hereditarily restless clan, |
9 |
Kabza De Small |
"Wena" |
single |
looking down from the highlands on the lights |
10 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Lights Out" |
Just Drive - Part 2 |
stretched out below and beyond, |
11 |
TORRES |
"Hand in the Air" |
Thirstier |
lining the roads that can take us anywhere |
12 |
Meet Me @ The Altar |
"Brighter Days (Are Before Us)" |
Brighter Days (Are Before Us) +1 |
we allow, |
13 |
GFOTY |
"COLD PLAY" |
FEMMEDORM |
but at often-uncontrollable speeds |
14 |
LiL Lotus |
"Rooftop" |
Rooftop +2 |
with fogged windows against our cameras and indulgence. |
15 |
Lil Xtra |
"obvs" |
single |
We substitute constructed edges for frontiers, |
16 |
snow ellet |
"wine on the carpet" |
single |
or mistake them, it's kind of hard to tell. |
17 |
glaive |
"bastard" |
single |
I wrote songs when I was a teenager, too: |
18 |
familypet |
"payphone" |
single |
maudlin notional anthems set to internal murmurs, |
19 |
fats'e |
"bad news" |
single |
uneditable pseudonymous freestyles rendered with blue ink in a literary magazine on inexplicably parchmental paper, |
20 |
Sullii |
"not for now" |
single |
one ballad set to open piano fifths. |
21 |
Ca$hrina |
"empath vs energy vampire" |
Trauma Queen |
There aren't enough adults to witness every childhood staged in public, |
22 |
Ravenna Golden |
"Girlfriend Sucks (feat. midwxst)" |
single |
not enough medals for every organized prodigy, |
23 |
Alice Longyu Gao |
"Underrated Popstar" |
single |
not enough of us for each of us to be famous. |
24 |
Wstdyth |
"Popeye" |
single |
But the promise connectivity extends is not that, |
25 |
King Woman |
"Celestial Blues" |
Celestial Blues |
is not that each of us in our matte albedos |
26 |
The Body |
"Polly Gosford" |
single |
will have constellations strung around us. |
27 |
Leprous |
"The Silent Revelation" |
single |
It is not the inane assurance that universal fame will be bestowed on us all at once, |
28 |
Soen |
"Thurifer" |
Thurifer +1 |
and thus cannot be faulted for whatever infinitesimal fraction it obliquely permits to exist on existence. |
29 |
Loch Vostok |
"The Freedom Paradox" |
Opus Ferox - The Great Escape |
The internet is not an integrally economic device, |
30 |
Cosmophobe |
"Presence" |
Presence +3 |
but an empathic one. |
31 |
Rivers of Nihil |
"Clean" |
single |
It does not seek to free us, |
32 |
Lantlôs |
"Cocoon Tree House" |
Wildhund |
but rather exactly to bind us |
33 |
Netherbird |
"Atrium of the Storm" |
Arete |
together. |
34 |
Succumb |
"Okeanos" |
single |
Behave as if you will be famous for your next trivial action or gesture, |
35 |
Ghostheart Nebula |
"Ascension, Pt. I Cosmic River" |
single |
for the way bits of expensive cheese fall out of a sandwich listing neglectedly in your left hand |
36 |
Teeth |
"Dreamless Hieroglyphs" |
Dreamless Hieroglyphs +1 |
as you struggle to collate misdispensed napkins with your right, |
37 |
Necrofier |
"The Black Flame Burns" |
single |
for how you flinch when attacked by mistake, |
38 |
Cradle Of Filth |
"Crawling King Chaos" |
single |
for the unexpected grace with which you deflect an unwanted fate |
39 |
Loch Vostok |
"Seize the Night" |
Opus Ferox - The Great Escape |
or heron. |
40 |
ZERO[Hz] |
"Changing Mrs.SATELLITE" |
VENOM 3 |
Our heroic epics begin and end at the size of a village; |
41 |
SABOTEN |
"アサインブレイカー" |
バカと天才とハミングバード 5 |
above and below that our isolated and/or inconsequential stories are just documented, attached, downloaded and forgotten. |
42 |
UNDEAD CORPORATION |
"Oblivion" |
single |
Our mythologies end at the bottom of the sky, |
43 |
Feelament |
"DNA (Propaganda)" |
single |
and we chase their shadows along contours |
44 |
Jinjer |
"Mediator" |
Mediator +1 |
that are irrelevant to projection, |
45 |
Edge Of Paradise |
"The Unknown" |
single |
but physics to the grounded. |
46 |
Last Days of Eden |
"Silence" |
single |
Have you noticed the common qualities of all promised lands: |
47 |
Dream Ocean |
"Eterna Espera" |
single |
they subsist on hope stolen from our lives, |
48 |
Bagira |
"И Грянет Гром" |
И Грянет Гром |
on breath sucked out of our own lungs, |
49 |
Reol |
"白夜" |
single |
on impossibilties rendered tantalizing only by our reflexive disbelief. |
50 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Signal" |
single |
Have you ever eaten ambrosia? |
51 |
Kamikaze Sensation |
"KAMIKAZE" |
KAMIKAZE +2 |
It's fine, it's good, there's a place in Doha or Tallinn or Singapore that mixes it with chocolate tahini and dragon fruit, |
52 |
B.O.L.T |
"未完成呼吸" |
single |
and it tastes like you're flying through an edible sunset with your mind and your mouth both open. |
53 |
Kaneyorimasaru |
"Minami Jujisei" |
single |
But the food court in heaven |
54 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Black Dress" |
Just Drive - Part 2 |
is only that, and then three empty stalls, and then Nectar King, |
55 |
GFOTY |
"ANOTHER GUY" |
FEMMEDORM |
and what you'd know if you ever worked there, |
56 |
Terror Jr |
"Smile Like That" |
single |
is that the ambrosia and the nectar both come out of Sysco packets in a shared commercial kitchen |
57 |
Poppy |
"Flux" |
Flux +1 |
that is always, at literally every moment, scrupulously clean. |
58 |
Sleigh Bells |
"Locust Laced" |
single |
We don't need to be raptured by divine beams, |
59 |
Loli in early 20s |
"yaderi" |
single |
we need to be reminded of the structural qualities of beanstalks and clouds |
60 |
Amyl and The Sniffers |
"Security" |
single |
and trust. |
61 |
TORRES |
"Keep the Devil Out" |
Thirstier |
You cannot armor yourself against the things you emit |
62 |
Creeper |
"Ghosts Over Calvary" |
American Noir |
or embody. |
63 |
Charlotte Sands |
"All My Friends Are Falling In Love" |
single |
We need not dream of an amnesia in which we stop thinking about everybody we have ever loved |
64 |
Josie Cotton |
"Calling All Girls" |
single |
during every moment with anyone. |
65 |
Dolly Parton |
"Sent From Above" |
single |
Love is not a process of elimination, |
66 |
Ainoa Buitrago |
"La Apuesta" |
single |
not a process |
67 |
Pignoise |
"Una Sensación" |
single |
but a resonant transparency tuned to ubiquitous joy. |
68 |
Sondaschule |
"Gute Zeiten" |
single |
It can feel like the sky pulls us, but too weakly, |
69 |
Marathonmann |
"In einer kleinen Stadt" |
In einer kleinen Stadt +1 |
so that we learn from one second one inch in the air to hate the earth, |
70 |
Elvis Blue |
"Sluit My Op" |
Meer As Genoeg |
and thus become willing to invest moral value in shoes that reassure us we are naturally above it, |
71 |
Nitrate |
"Children of the Lost Brigade" |
Renegade |
and this space-age foam is merely filling in the emptiness we have left below us. |
72 |
Young Culture |
"Shiver" |
Godspeed 5 |
Trust nobody who points to our shared earth and talks about emptiness, |
73 |
OLD SCHOOL |
"Unwavering" |
single |
and then gestures to places they have never been, |
74 |
All Time Low |
"PMA (feat. Pale Waves)" |
single |
and promises to take you there. |
75 |
Skweletu |
"Life is magic" |
Bizani umndeni |
The sacraments we gather around ourselves, |
76 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Altitude" |
Just Drive - Part 2 |
wet from unexpected rainstorms falling on omniscience, |
77 |
KESH |
"Mind Maze" |
single |
or blood from endless wars pounded against omnipotence, |
78 |
CHVRCHES |
"Good Girls - Prospa Remix" |
Good Girls 5 |
are soddenly unreadable allegories of obedience only half-heartedly disguised as legends of rebellion, |
79 |
Brass Against |
"Cherub Rock" |
single |
because the half of the heart that receives circulation back from the rest of the body |
80 |
Angel Olsen |
"Safety Dance" |
Safety Dance +1 |
knows that everything you touch is at once a risk |
81 |
Malia J |
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
single |
and the only way to know how anything feels. |
82 |
Melodicka Bros |
"Somebody That I Used to Know (Gothic Metal)" |
single |
You can get addicted to collecting every variation of a certain kind of sadness, |
83 |
Volbeat |
"Don't Tread on Me" |
single |
which is one of a million ways to turn sadness in upon itself. |
84 |
SebastiAn |
"Don't Tread on Else Matters" |
single |
Sadness and joy are not inverses, but reversible reinterpretations of each other, |
85 |
Gabe James |
"good 4 u - 4 the boys" |
single |
perfect and dishonest and self-preservational and self-destructive and contradictory and true. |
86 |
First to Eleven |
"good 4 u" |
single |
Our task is not to adjudicate uncertainty, but to return to its source and see that a different future has now been opened to us. |
87 |
JACKIE EXTREME |
"ALL EYES ON ME" |
single |
It's almost over. It skips the stupid part in the middle that you never want to hear more than once. It has just begun. |