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SIPP |
"Clock! Lock!! Rock!!!" |
It all begins here 5 |
It all begins anywhere: |
2 |
Eir Aoi |
"金魚草" |
アトック 4 |
with people you don't know making music that feels like it comes from inside you, |
3 |
milet |
"Time Is On Our Side" |
Ordinary days 4 |
with the oceanic reluctance of unavoidable patience, |
4 |
BiSH |
"CAN WE STiLL BE??" |
GOiNG TO DESTRUCTiON |
with pentitent masks and the constant ambiguity between armor and identity, |
5 |
PRSMIN |
"rising" |
single |
with insurgence and the periodic realization that you have been carrying somebody else's flag |
6 |
PEDRO |
"夏" |
single |
towards your own favorite hills. |
7 |
BOY MEETS HARU |
"Blame summer" |
Blame summer +2 |
There's always something impersonal to blame, |
8 |
Regal Lily |
"風にとどけ" |
single |
and thus always productive distractions from your own responsibility, |
9 |
Ayane |
"片想いソーダ" |
single |
from taking it, |
10 |
yonige |
"TAIGAN NO KANOJYO" |
single |
from taking it apart and figuring out how it got broken. |
11 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"ZENITH" |
single |
The sky above you, when asked about its dreams, doesn't bring you up at all. |
12 |
CODE OF ZERO |
"WHAT IS THE BRAVE?" |
single |
It begins anywhere below that, |
13 |
GUNIX |
"STAY FLY" |
single |
on or barely higher than this ground, |
14 |
NEKIRU |
"Starry Night" |
The forgotten star 3 |
lit by oblivious foreign suns. |
15 |
color-code |
"Congrats!" |
single |
We haven't survived this long by only luck, |
16 |
Public Service Broadcasting |
"Blue Heaven" |
Blue Heaven +1 |
but we were given a simple world that, for a while, didn't require that much more, |
17 |
C Z A R I N A |
"Wonderland" |
single |
and we made it complex. |
18 |
Nation of Language |
"This Fractured Mind" |
This Fractured Mind +2 |
We were given geography |
19 |
888 |
"Slow Motion" |
single |
and invented geometry, |
20 |
Emma Blackery |
"Ridicule" |
single |
not fully intending dialectic |
21 |
Cate |
"Stupid" |
single |
but also not afraid to be honest with ourselves in secret. |
22 |
Sucre |
"Never" |
single |
Secrecy sounds like it's about you, |
23 |
Tinashe |
"The Chase" |
333 |
and diversity about other people, |
24 |
Tierra Whack |
"Walk The Beat" |
single |
but of course both of these are backwards. |
25 |
Tia Carys |
"Refugee Freestyle" |
single |
What you conceal modulates what you are willing to give other people |
26 |
OSTON |
"Am I Talking Too Much?" |
Am I Talking Too Much? |
more than it changes your own organs, |
27 |
Frawley |
"Middle Of Nowhere" |
single |
because you have known your secrets all along; |
28 |
Cody Feechan |
"State of Confusion" |
single |
and diversity isn't constituted by variegated strangers, |
29 |
As December Falls |
"Over It" |
Happier. |
but composed by how you situate your adorations and movements |
30 |
Leecher |
"Blind and Frozen" |
single |
in an acknowledged universe. |
31 |
Blinding Sunrise |
"Kaikai Kitan" |
single |
You can't become other people, |
32 |
Haloo Helsinki! |
"Tulikärpäset" |
single |
but they are not offering you their skin |
33 |
Skyline Leeway |
"Todo De Ti" |
single |
or demanding that you quit your own city for theirs, |
34 |
Macy Rodman |
"Rock 'N' Roll Gay Guy" |
single |
or even certain that these cities are different. |
35 |
teto |
"光とロマン" |
愛と例話 |
They have streets and busses and guitars. |
36 |
Yandere |
"always" |
single |
Time stops, next to the curb, so you can get on, |
37 |
glaive |
"1984" |
all dogs go to heaven |
and then it edges back into traffic, going towards a scheduled past |
38 |
JOHNNASCUS |
"F33L L1K3 1M DY1NG (untitled_0030)" |
single |
or an only expediently mapped future. |
39 |
Lil Skele |
"medicine, pt.2" |
single |
We are neither post-genre nor post-trauma, |
40 |
Yung Scuff |
"In My Head Again" |
single |
not even post- a pandemic we've had a year and a half to take seriously, |
41 |
iamjakehill |
"poison" |
dying lately |
we're just tired and scared of such a long list of things we can't control, |
42 |
diveliner |
"heavy metal" |
single |
and plaintively desperate for ways to understand them |
43 |
Nobody$ |
"Do So Much" |
single |
as lingering cadences of people that aren't us who aren't those people still, either, |
44 |
Amanda Black |
"always," |
Mnyama |
so that we can believe that our helpless inaction |
45 |
Van Baxy |
"Djon kunadi" |
single |
is a diligent attention to inexorable healing, |
46 |
Vico da sporo |
"Masango - Original mix" |
Underrated |
fountaining from our essential humanity rediscovered. |
47 |
Ndlovu Youth Choir |
"Liberate Love" |
single |
This isn't emotionally wrong, |
48 |
Indiya |
"Angisenamali" |
Ngisize |
but it fails to integrate the perspective of whirling rocks |
49 |
Ihhashi Elimhlophe |
"Ingwe" |
Inja 4 |
and space, |
50 |
Maqhikiza |
"Ifa lokuhlupheka f.t Skhumba" |
single |
and thus conflates ancestry with background, |
51 |
Saarkie |
"Waar Lê Jou Hart" |
Waar Lê Jou Hart? |
and reconciliation with justice. |
52 |
unicycle dio |
"糸" |
single |
Every rainbow extends into the obverse darkness, |
53 |
Shiva |
"Hu ka" |
Hu ka +1 |
endlessly and goallessly, |
54 |
Delacroix |
"JYOUHUTOICE -UNREAL CONTROL-" |
single |
cheerfully obliterating unseen bedrock |
55 |
Enslaved |
"Caravans to the Outer Worlds" |
single |
we will probably eventually need, |
56 |
Soen |
"Thurifer" |
Thurifer +1 |
in order to make a tunnel |
57 |
TesseracT |
"Tourniquet - P O R T A L S" |
single |
that can take us to one distant dream-point |
58 |
Damian Wilson |
"Once We're Gone" |
single |
via featureless darkness, |
59 |
Cruzh |
"Paralyzed" |
Tropical Thunder |
as if nowhere else matters |
60 |
Leverage |
"Emperor" |
single |
and we aspire to relocate ourselves without actually traveling. |
61 |
Vega |
"Ain't Who I Am" |
single |
"The hero takes a journey", we say, |
62 |
Mayank |
"Billy is on the Run" |
Mayank |
closing the book and putting it back on a shelf, |
63 |
Porta Inferi CZ |
"Vrať se nám - Radio Edit" |
single |
but this is extreme survivor bias: |
64 |
HJELVIK |
"Synkverving" |
single |
most heroes become heroic by walking through unfamiliar lands |
65 |
Blood Red Throne |
"Conquered Malevolence" |
Conquered Malevolence +1 |
and then returning to familiar ones. |
66 |
Agrypnie |
"Am Ende der Welt - Teil 1" |
Metamorphosis |
The hairy-footed people who come to your country |
67 |
Wolves In The Throne Room |
"Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire)" |
Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire) +2 |
in order to throw their problematic thrash into your mountain |
68 |
Ghostheart Nebula |
"Ascension, Pt. II My Burial Dream" |
single |
are not your heroes, |
69 |
Rise to the Sky |
"Life in Suspense" |
single |
and their memoirs of their homecomings |
70 |
Helheim |
"WoduridaR" |
single |
share characters with your creation myths, |
71 |
Deafheaven |
"In Blur" |
In Blur +2 |
but are not their sequels. |
72 |
Waldgeflüster |
"Im Ebersberger Forst" |
single |
Under gray moon I saw you, |
73 |
Reverorum ib Malacht |
"Not here" |
Not Here |
and then the moon exploded, |
74 |
Vessel of Iniquity |
"A Glimpse of the Pattern" |
The Doorway |
its dust meteoring down at us in atmospheric sigils of fire, |
75 |
Archspire |
"Golden Mouth of Ruin" |
single |
like the teeth of a void made of |
76 |
The Sound That Ends Creation |
"Get Your Shirt Off... It's Pervert Time" |
single |
mouths, |
77 |
Full Of Hell |
"Industrial Messiah Complex" |
single |
like descending saviors |
78 |
Nytt Land |
"Dead Man's Dance" |
Ritual |
burning benificently in the atmosphere |
79 |
Alkonost |
"Птица" |
single |
on the way to landing as smouldering lumps |
80 |
Bucovina |
"Tăriile Văzduhului" |
single |
in horizonal fields. |
81 |
Fire-Toolz |
"“Lellow< "Birbs<" |
single |
It begins there, too, |
82 |
Lingua Ignota |
"MANY HANDS" |
SINNER GET READY |
next to a small steaming hole in damp ground where we realize that salvation isn't a thing that comes, |
83 |
Klara Lewis |
"Sell Art" |
KLMNOPQ 5 |
but an assumption of impunity |
84 |
Laura Stevenson |
"Moving Cars" |
Laura Stevenson |
that we wear like costume jewelry |
85 |
Hand Habits |
"Aquamarine" |
single |
mistaken for regalia of a disbanded court. |
86 |
Wilma Laverne Miner |
"STCY" |
single |
We take up a collection from our friends |
87 |
Ssaliva |
"5ever" |
5ever / The Stars Up Above 2 |
to pave the damp, punctured ground, |
88 |
Montreal |
"Danke für die Nase" |
single |
and this needs neither to be paid for nor done, |
89 |
Betontod |
"Pech&Schwefel" |
Pech&Schwefel +1 |
but we need friends and willingness, |
90 |
Vico da sporo |
"Kwa zulu - Original mix" |
Underrated |
and to be reminded when we have more than we require, |
91 |
Saarkie |
"Identiteit" |
Waar Lê Jou Hart? |
and how deeply that has made us how we are, |
92 |
Toyah |
"Summer of Love" |
single |
but how little it predetermines what we can become. |
93 |
CHVRCHES |
"Good Girls - John Carpenter Remix" |
single |
It all starts over every week, every day, every verse: |
94 |
Corey Gray |
"Hold On" |
single |
joy and chaos, |
95 |
The Longing |
"White Rabbit" |
single |
logic and proportion, |
96 |
RUNAGROUND |
"Boys of Summer" |
single |
the people we will be after everyone else's heroes have thrown away their rings and gone home. |