1 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"夜を越えて" |
single |
The vastness of the sky is not an argument with the specificity of now, |
2 |
Regal Lily |
"風をあつめて" |
single |
or the smallness of where you choose to stand. |
3 |
ヨルシカ |
"老人と海" |
single |
You do not reach another human soul by plunging a claw |
4 |
果歩 |
"きみの住む街" |
single |
into a teeming and desperate bin of everyone |
5 |
斉藤 朱夏 |
"もう無理、でも走る" |
パッチワーク |
furtively, in the dark. |
6 |
クレナズム |
"積乱雲の下で" |
single |
Slowly drifting clouds are not a story of our freedom or our breath |
7 |
Mega Shinnosuke |
"Koshukaido Wo Tobashite" |
single |
except among each other and beneath them. |
8 |
Puffy AmiYumi |
"エッサフォッサ" |
single |
Our legends each begin with a definitive misunderstanding, |
9 |
Rika |
"HEART BEAT" |
Rika's history |
and then attempt to bind together its unraveling |
10 |
KISIDA KYODAN & THE AKEBOSI ROCKETS |
"HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD[2021]" |
single |
until this becomes too magnificently untenable. |
11 |
UVERworld |
"来鳥江" |
single |
Other humans are not clouds, |
12 |
TOTALFAT |
"WE RUN ON FAITH" |
single |
but gazing across distance is an act |
13 |
MIYAVI |
"New Gravity" |
single |
independent of which curvature technically governs it. |
14 |
Anette Olzon |
"Fantastic Fanatic" |
single |
All of these mythologies obtain because we cope in metaphor and choruses, |
15 |
Slania |
"Limbo" |
single |
and maybe are not really good at anything else. |
16 |
Viana |
"Kukkuvutit" |
Sinnattuinnarusukkaluarpunga |
The vastness of the ice is not the canvas for our love, |
17 |
YYNOT |
"Burning Bridge" |
single |
or it is, but so is fire and and whatever remains after fire, |
18 |
Kyros |
"Behind the Lines" |
RECOVER |
and so is every complex evasion, |
19 |
Divided Island |
"Error 404" |
single |
compound failure, |
20 |
The Last Martyr |
"Afterglow" |
single |
cathartic survival |
21 |
Oceanhoarse |
"Betrayed by Light" |
Dead Reckoning |
or cathartic irresolution that might still be survival |
22 |
Skagarack |
"Reclaim Your Life" |
single |
if we wait for the right declarative moment. |
23 |
Second Reign |
"Fire" |
single |
The sky is our limitlessness, |
24 |
Iron Maiden |
"Stratego" |
Stratego +1 |
our most literal deism, |
25 |
Mentalist |
"Evil Eye" |
A Journey into the Unknown |
our most inescapable fear. |
26 |
Stormhunter |
"Last Words" |
Crime and Punishment |
Beneath, we are indistinguishable |
27 |
Soen |
"Virtue" |
Lotus |
from each other, from weather, |
28 |
I124Q |
"Eqqissivoq" |
Saperavit |
from climate or geology, |
29 |
A Pregnant Light |
"Mr. Natural" |
single |
from contour or apocalypse, |
30 |
Wolves In The Throne Room |
"Masters of Rain and Storm" |
Primordial Arcana |
from cause or consequence. |
31 |
Deafheaven |
"Lament for Wasps" |
Infinite Granite |
Our ambassadors will not be sent to explain our destiny to aliens, |
32 |
Low |
"More" |
More +2 |
but to understand how rules of coexistence are written in anything other than draining blood |
33 |
Mroh |
"Revelation" |
single |
and futile scripture |
34 |
Profeci |
"Bojaźń i drżenie" |
single |
and cryptic rage. |
35 |
WARGASM (UK) |
"Salma Hayek" |
single |
You do not reach another human soul by abstracting it into silhouette, |
36 |
Pangolin |
"Blood$ucker" |
single |
but caricature works, so the problem is not the outline, but the darkness. |
37 |
yung axstn |
"Underneath" |
single |
Screaming is not itself a rhetorical device, |
38 |
LiL Lotus |
"Over and Over Again" |
ERRØR BØY |
but the machines have to get their energy from somewhere, |
39 |
Ryan Oakes |
"VACATION" |
VACATION +1 |
and all the powerful somewheres are inside of us or nowhere near. |
40 |
Jutes |
"See You In Hell" |
single |
We align our heroisms by comparing the journeys |
41 |
Caspr |
"Play Pretend (feat. Travis Barker)" |
Play Pretend (feat. Travis Barker) +2 |
we wishfully imagine ourselves prepared to make. |
42 |
Dream |
"Change My Clothes" |
single |
You fail in all the quests you talk yourself out of, |
43 |
Derivakat |
"REVIVED" |
Records of the SMP |
to Greenland or the Nether. |
44 |
Terror Jr |
"Shut Your Mouth" |
single |
Adventures only happen when we allow ourselves to believe in a map |
45 |
Ellur |
"Moments" |
single |
and a once-upon-a-time with onceness, |
46 |
Prinze George |
"Purple Sunset" |
single |
and a horizon we can reach with our heart |
47 |
Polly Scattergood |
"Saturn 9" |
single |
even as it spins away from our shoes, |
48 |
The Joy Formidable |
"Sevier" |
Into the Blue |
and a way to keep our corrosive senses of purpose from rendering us unable to wander. |
49 |
Tulenkulkijat |
"Kunnon tyttö" |
single |
The earth doesn't end, |
50 |
swim school |
"everything you wanted" |
making sense of it all 5 |
nor should your dreams: |
51 |
Lorde |
"The Path" |
Solar Power |
least of all in idyllic repose |
52 |
Juliana Hatfield |
"Red Poinsettia" |
Christmas Cactus // Red Poinsettia 2 |
or toxic idolatry |
53 |
Dar Williams |
"Today and Every Day" |
Today and Every Day +1 |
or resignational grace. |
54 |
CXLOE |
"Soft Rock" |
single |
Love what you need, |
55 |
GRACEY |
"What A Waste" |
single |
and then what you need to let go, |
56 |
Andrey Azizov |
"TOO LOUD!" |
single |
and then what you need to become to be released. |
57 |
Letting Up Despite Great Faults |
"Gemini" |
single |
There will be blur |
58 |
Bastille |
"Thelma + Louise" |
single |
and explosion |
59 |
LANY |
"never mind, let's break up" |
never mind, let's break up +3 |
and precipices of doubt, |
60 |
Geographer |
"Never Let You Down" |
Never Let You Down +2 |
and you will stand on them until you decide to go over. |
61 |
Sam Fender |
"Aye" |
single |
We didn't put out the fire. |
62 |
Andrés Suárez |
"Dime A Qué Has Venido" |
single |
I think we thought we would need it to survive the cold, |
63 |
Your Captain Speaking |
"Head Down" |
Luxury Deluxe 5 |
and flinched at the idea of stopping something we didn't know how to restart. |
64 |
Betontod |
"Jogginghose forever" |
Jogginghose forever +2 |
Things we don't try are not redeemed by how ineffective they would almost certainly have been. |
65 |
Straatligkinders |
"Kom Saam" |
single |
All quests fail, eventually, if you allow the story to continue. |
66 |
Brendan Peyper |
"Warm Nog Op" |
single |
The strangers who came to town move into those weird townhouses behind where the middle school used to be, |
67 |
Tasché |
"Baby, Ek Bly" |
single |
or the country you thought was yours. |
68 |
Stephanie Quayle |
"Lone Ranger" |
single |
And you will say "I will not fall in love with these new people", |
69 |
Ashland Craft |
"That's The Kinda Place" |
single |
and "I am the middle of the only nowhere that matters", |
70 |
Cairo CPT |
"Speak Of The Town" |
single |
and the city will rise up around you, filled with momentarily unrecognizable joys, |
71 |
One Blood Namibia |
"Thando (R&N)" |
single |
until you start to forget which ones you meant to defy, |
72 |
AMA-AK47 |
"Impi yegazi" |
Jaiva Zimnike-INkosi yomaskandi |
and congratulate yourself for discovering neighborhoods |
73 |
AMA-AK47 |
"Vuka" |
Jaiva Zimnike-Isikole sengoma |
that were there before you yourself arrived. |
74 |
ZANEFA NGIDI |
"Isinanqa" |
single |
The multiplicity of superstitions and beliefs |
75 |
Amageza Amahle. |
"Yiyo lengoma" |
UZOBENZANI |
may feel like validation for your own |
76 |
Ballaké Sissoko |
"Simbo Salaba" |
single |
until you have to explain to yourself how they didn't save you, |
77 |
Wolves In The Throne Room |
"Skyclad Passage - Bonus Track" |
Primordial Arcana |
didn't carry you alone, manifestly, out of the storm into something above storms. |
78 |
Hiro Kone |
"Reciprocal capture (ft. Speaker Music)" |
single |
Above storms is glittering death. |
79 |
Hal Hartley |
"The Bride's Older Sister" |
Our Lady of the Highway |
The purpose of illusory choice is not dissatisfaction with your own mundane fate, |
80 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"The Night of Santiago (8-Bit Leonard Cohen Emulation)" |
By Request, Vol. 144 |
but the opportunity to welcome inevitability differently this time, |
81 |
The Ultimate Heroes |
"MAPA - Pop Punk Version" |
single |
to tell a different version of story you haven't even heard. |
82 |
Goodnight, Texas |
"Of Wolf and Man" |
single |
We do not change by being pushed by the earth, |
83 |
Royal Blood |
"Sad But True" |
single |
or trying to push back from on it. |
84 |
Brass Against |
"Testify" |
single |
These rising cities will take turns burning. |
85 |
Joy Oladokun |
"Who Are You" |
single |
Love falls from the trees in all of the places with trees. |
86 |
Angel Olsen |
"If You Leave" |
Aisles 5 |
We burn them down, and they wait for us to walk away |
87 |
Jo O'Meara |
"Missing You" |
single |
and realize whose heart we left there. |
88 |
Real Friends |
"Tonight, Tonight" |
single |
The more you change, the more you feel, |
89 |
Punk Cover Moose |
"Don't Stop Believin'" |
single |
the more you learn to believe in streetlights, and in people. |