1 |
Meet Me @ The Altar |
"Mapped Out" |
Model Citizen 6 |
We can't avoid forever wars by teaching other people to die in them, |
2 |
Sincere Engineer |
"Coming in Last" |
Coming in Last 6 |
and making them promise that they'll keep shooting each other if we leave them alone. |
3 |
Carissa Johnson |
"Wasting Dreams" |
single |
We can't make a self-supporting society by training "forces", |
4 |
snow ellet |
"nowhere to go" |
suburban indie rock star |
like we can't ward off viruses with flags |
5 |
You, Me, And Everyone We Know |
"Ram Dass Dick Pics" |
single |
or broken pieces of polarized glass, |
6 |
Jagguar |
"Greenrock Hideaway" |
single |
like we can't gerrymander away obsolescence, |
7 |
If I Die First |
"Just Another Body at the Bottom of the Lake" |
They Drew Blood 6 |
like we can't hide ignorance in assumptions, |
8 |
Death Tour |
"The Cycle" |
single |
like we can't hold ourselves motionless against moving time. |
9 |
Carolina Durante |
"10" |
single |
We shouldn't need a list of ways to know these things, |
10 |
Skay Beilinson |
"El Candor de las Bestias" |
single |
after this much evolution, |
11 |
The Ultimate Heroes |
"Bakit Nga Ba Mahal Kita" |
single |
but then again it's evolution, not elevation, |
12 |
RAINASH |
"Eroded" |
single |
and all it promises is that we survived more than we didn't |
13 |
B.O.L.T |
"Yummy!" |
single |
this deliriously far. |
14 |
超ときめき♡宣伝部 |
"ラヴなのっ♡" |
single |
We want to cultivate joy, |
15 |
Yutaka Furukawa |
"夏の鉄塔" |
single |
but we send guns that are good only for |
16 |
HIRAIDAI |
"素晴らしき人生" |
single |
recruiting live and dead enemies at undetermined relative rates, |
17 |
a flood of circle |
"まだ世界は君のもの" |
GIFT ROCKS 5 |
and then argue about measurement. |
18 |
L'Arc-en-Ciel |
"FOREVER" |
single |
Forever is too long for fighting. |
19 |
NETH PRIERE CAIN |
"Dream to draw -Michael-" |
single |
I don't pretend to have any idea how to convince warriors |
20 |
DAIDA LAIDA |
"Liar" |
Evolution second shot 3 |
that they have internalized inhumanity |
21 |
Equilibrium |
"Revolution" |
single |
inside armor that makes them feel superhuman, |
22 |
Dream Theater |
"The Alien" |
single |
any more than I know how to separate a zealot |
23 |
Aryem |
"You Are Insane" |
You Are Insane +2 |
from the doctrines that allow them to believe |
24 |
Tulip |
"Clone" |
single |
that they need to listen to nothing else. |
25 |
Dead Sara |
"Heroes" |
single |
The hero only ever commits one heroic act, |
26 |
Sara |
"Mun ihminen" |
single |
and only if they don't die in the process of every other brutalist impulse |
27 |
Voutsa |
"Nokkahuilu" |
single |
before finding the grace with which to |
28 |
Sugar Horse |
"Shouting Judas At Bob Dylan" |
single |
forgive themselves |
29 |
Unreqvited |
"All is Lost" |
Beautiful Ghosts |
amidst the clattering swords forged uselessly for |
30 |
Kalmhain |
"March of Destruction" |
Thanatos I |
never forgiving other people |
31 |
Obscurity |
"Ethnogenese" |
single |
by never looking them anywhere but in their necks. |
32 |
The Zenith Passage |
"Algorithmic Salvation" |
single |
No amount of math will measure away our definitional flaws. |
33 |
Bellwethr |
"In Forests We'll Lie (Redux)" |
single |
We have lain in these random forests before, |
34 |
Fluisteraars |
"Brand woedt in mijn graf" |
single |
have left our fallen in these fields |
35 |
Corpus Vitreum |
"Old Wars" |
Old Wars +1 |
after wars we talk about as distant lights |
36 |
Monarch |
"Northern Star" |
Monarch |
during nights lit by nothing else. |
37 |
Skepticism |
"The Swan and the Raven" |
single |
We are the creatures who fight, |
38 |
Alessia Cara |
"The Use In Trying" |
single |
and then write books about how we came to mistakenly believe we had to fight |
39 |
Nightly |
"a million pretty pieces" |
single |
and there was a way to do it that would make it helpful, |
40 |
Carlie Hanson |
"Off My Neck" |
single |
and this time, this once, the ghosts of the lost |
41 |
morgxn |
"DON'T THINK ABOUT IT" |
single |
would gather outside the walls of our liberated cities |
42 |
BLOXX |
"Pop Culture Radio" |
Pop Culture Radio +3 |
to sing their considered endorsement of their involuntary sacrifice |
43 |
Kalie Shorr |
"I Heard You Got a Girl" |
I Got Here by Accident 5 |
in their most fabulous clothes. |
44 |
Tenille Arts |
"Over You is You (feat. Matt Stell)" |
single |
But which side of this window is freedom, anyway? |
45 |
andrews' |
"r u gonna want your stuff back?" |
single |
Neither one. |
46 |
Lebra Jolie |
"B.a.B" |
Now What |
The better world is not separated from this one by a line in the air, |
47 |
AYŞE BETÜL |
"Sana Mı Sorucam?" |
single |
but defined by the paired releases |
48 |
Safarel Obiang |
"Drill Décalé" |
single |
from self-defense and from longing. |
49 |
Wondamagik |
"Grab Somebody" |
single |
Go out among the ghosts, as your ghost self, |
50 |
Ntokzin |
"Gaz'Lam" |
Black Duke |
and for one night dance the way the ghosts dance. |
51 |
Aymos |
"Ababuyanga" |
single |
And the next night, and again, |
52 |
Menzi |
"Mntanomuntu" |
single |
until you overstay the darkness |
53 |
AMA-AK47 |
"Impi yosongo" |
Just relax |
and the sunlight touches your ghost wrist |
54 |
Stabhilithi |
"Iqhude" |
My Yonkinto |
and you see that it was always the same skin in every light. |
55 |
Nyon'Emhlophe |
"Incwadi engafundeki" |
Incwadi engafundeki |
We are the creatures who repeatedly convince ourselves that joy is a contingent transience, |
56 |
Rethabile Khumalo |
"Inkemba" |
Inkemba +3 |
so that we can assuage the fear that we don't deserve it |
57 |
Yemi Alade |
"Sweety" |
Queendoncom |
by shopping for ritual machines that purport to give us back our own souls |
58 |
Zahara |
"Sinda Mphefumlo" |
Nqaba Yam |
by pulling them up to just under the surface of our skin |
59 |
Dolly Parton |
"In the Sweet by and By" |
single |
and then letting go with a snap. |
60 |
Richard Thompson |
"Tinker's Rhapsody" |
Serpent's Tears 6 |
But if you listen to the old songs again, |
61 |
Damon & Naomi |
"How I Came to Photograph Clouds" |
A Sky Record |
or the new songs that are honest about how new songs and old songs are not enemies, |
62 |
Cole Rolland |
"Beethoven's 5th Symphony" |
single |
you can hear the ghosts singing the secret we share with them. |
63 |
Kirkkovene |
"Ota mut (Take On Me)" |
single |
We don't avoid forever by any other technique |
64 |
From the Depth |
"What Is Love" |
single |
than falling in love so grandly that for a moment we forget. |