1 |
UNDEAD CORPORATION |
"Blaze" |
Blaze +1 |
You can tell what we have defeated by what we resurrect as symbology, |
2 |
KAQRIYOTERROR |
"Full Time Dive" |
Full Time Dive +1 |
and thus evolution and progress are inevitably movements into metaphor. |
3 |
NightOwl |
"Yoakemae" |
Answer 4 |
Cultural tourism is both a luxury of an entitled society |
4 |
R!N |
"Going my way" |
single |
and a natural expression of its conception and primacy of curiosity. |
5 |
Ryokuoushoku Shakai |
"これからのこと、それからのこと" |
LITMUS |
If you are starving, you visit strangers to steal their food. |
6 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"あの街に風吹けば" |
you love |
Once your home is safe, you learn to perceive safety as a conduit between differently safe realms. |
7 |
anewhite |
"バケトナ" |
single |
Once you can sing, |
8 |
zenbukiminoseida. |
"Loose leaf - kisaragi megumi solo" |
Loose leaf (kisaragi megumi solo) 2 |
you can hear every other song at once, |
9 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"GAN GAN HERO!!!!!" |
single |
and once you understand that everybody can sing, |
10 |
Gacharic Spin |
"I wish I" |
single |
you reveal your own infinite voices. |
11 |
Matenrou Opera |
"Owaranunamidanoumide" |
Owaranu namidano umide 3 |
And then you have to decide what to say |
12 |
Murder in Greenvale |
"STAY" |
single |
about everything. |
13 |
Edge Of Paradise |
"False Idols" |
single |
We are so close to our better selves: |
14 |
Ad Infinitum |
"Unstoppable" |
single |
their skin warm against our knives, |
15 |
Windrunner |
"Mahogany" |
single |
their blood sinuous and coiled, |
16 |
VENUES |
"Razorblade Teeth" |
Solace |
our yearnings folded into steel. |
17 |
The Great Discord |
"Dies Irae" |
single |
We can start to speak intelligibly, |
18 |
Omnium Gatherum |
"Paragon" |
single |
however tragically speculatively, |
19 |
Dawn Of Solace |
"White Noise" |
single |
about peace, |
20 |
MØL |
"Serf" |
Serf +1 |
but still end up screaming. |
21 |
Thyrfing |
"Håg och minne" |
Vanagandr |
The things all stories share are the illusion that the past has a boundary, |
22 |
Doedsvangr |
"As the Rivers Bleed Their Blessings" |
single |
and the conceit that we can look over it from beyond. |
23 |
Obscurity |
"Wodanaz Kriger" |
SKOGARMAORS |
True advances in weaponry |
24 |
Banshee |
"Let the Light Decay" |
single |
are methods for stretching larger canvases |
25 |
Wormwitch |
"Canadian Denim Mountain Attack" |
Wolf Hex |
for war painting, |
26 |
Windfaerer |
"Oxalá" |
Breaths of Elder Dawns |
not better logistics for shipping cases of guns |
27 |
Fluisteraars |
"Het overvleugelen der meute" |
Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking |
to a knife fight |
28 |
MONO |
"Innocence" |
Innocence +1 |
and leaving them there. |
29 |
Boris |
"Fundamental Erorr" |
No |
"Didn't you already write a loud song about noise?" |
30 |
Rivers of Nihil |
"Focus" |
single |
Yes! Do you like those? We have more! |
31 |
Leprous |
"Out of Here" |
Aphelion |
Didn't we already fight this war? |
32 |
TesseracT |
"Concealing Fate Parts 1, 2 & 3 - P O R T A L S" |
PORTALS |
Yes, and it didn't help. How long would a song have to be |
33 |
Aisles |
"Megalomania" |
single |
for you to accept it in place of violence? |
34 |
Fire-Toolz |
"I Am a Cloud" |
single |
This is why you cannot negotiate with natural phenomena |
35 |
Kedr Livanskiy |
"Boy" |
single |
or animal societies |
36 |
Isabella Lovestory |
"Tranki" |
single |
that have no currency of song. |
37 |
Macy Rodman |
"Punk Rock Boyfriend" |
Unbelievable Animals |
They cannot recognize your implicit stipulation of safety, |
38 |
Bob Vylan |
"Pretty Songs" |
single |
and thus cannot value your distinction between art and fighting. |
39 |
Lil Darkie |
"PSYCHEDELIC TECHNO DEATH" |
single |
You can tell what has defeated us |
40 |
Wstdyth |
"Riff Raff" |
single |
by the self-evidentally idiotic things we still say, |
41 |
iamjakehill |
"Waiting to Die" |
single |
or by how we huddle instead of dancing in storms. |
42 |
Tevil Bloom |
"Eyes On The Road" |
Eyes On The Road |
Roads are a way of materializing the end of the fear that keeps you in one place, |
43 |
5v |
"secure" |
single |
even if it's replaced by a fear of moving on unapproved paths. |
44 |
lieu |
"evil" |
delete 2 |
The new tokens are lowercase, |
45 |
juno |
"runaway" |
single |
but still poems of escape |
46 |
Prentiss |
"too fast" |
single |
from barely assembled traps. |
47 |
LANY |
"roll over, baby" |
roll over, baby 5 |
We grow older, and accumulate complex rationalizations |
48 |
Emmit Fenn |
"Into The Deep" |
All This To Live For 3 |
for simple imperatives: |
49 |
Wrest |
"Medicine" |
single |
why we don't stay up all night, |
50 |
Sorry X |
"Sinking" |
single |
why we wade or tan instead of swimming, |
51 |
The Connells |
"Stars" |
Stars +2 |
why we dream of dark and colliding stars |
52 |
JAGUWAR |
"Gold" |
single |
instead of the sun we orbit. |
53 |
Gameboi |
"Only Fan" |
single |
We have only one organ of touch, |
54 |
Messer |
"Boy in the Pictures" |
Roses 5 |
no matter how many ways we photograph our fantasies of contact. |
55 |
We The North |
"Exil" |
single |
We retreat from fire, |
56 |
The Sere |
"The Warning" |
The Candle - EP 4 |
out of the same instinct that draws us towards it. |
57 |
Parallels |
"True Desire" |
SUPERSYMMETRY |
All we really want is control over the centimeter of air immediately surrounding our bodies, |
58 |
Supernova Plasmajets |
"Lonely Hearts in the Night" |
single |
plus existential emotional validation |
59 |
CHVRCHES |
"Asking for a Friend" |
Screen Violence |
and a voice we feel confident enough to not use |
60 |
Poppy |
"So Mean" |
So Mean +2 |
in any government that serves us. |
61 |
The Greeting Committee |
"Ada" |
single |
We didn't invent darkness, |
62 |
Everdeen |
"By the Water" |
Stay |
but we gave it life. |
63 |
Ngaiire |
"Shoestring" |
3 |
You can measure our humanity in gravity, |
64 |
Celest |
"Lejos de Mí" |
single |
but learn only how we adapt to temporary constraints. |
65 |
Carina Dahl |
"Kjæresten din" |
single |
Once you float free of your shoes, of your feet, |
66 |
Toyah |
"Take Me Home" |
Posh Pop |
you acquire more destinations than you could ever visit, |
67 |
Josie Cotton |
"Recipe for Disaster" |
Pussycat Babylon |
and are thus invited to stop thinking about movement as a checklist. |
68 |
Caroline Jones |
"Getting to Me" |
single |
We are spun by this one gravity storm, |
69 |
Makhadzi |
"Tchukutsha - Radio Edit" |
Tchukutsha 2 |
endlessly the same direction, |
70 |
Nyon'Emhlophe |
"Alibuyele emakhosini" |
Umahosha wendoda |
until we finally decide to step outside and above it, |
71 |
Foresaga |
"Seidr" |
single |
to look back and down on our tightwound centuries |
72 |
Erdling |
"Rabenherz" |
Rabenherz +1 |
and realize that we have become |
73 |
Hämatom |
"So wie wir" |
single |
exactly the gods we hypothesized, |
74 |
Sondaschule |
"Ich verspreche mir selbst" |
single |
and thus assume all their jubillant guilts. |
75 |
Boris |
"Genesis" |
No |
Divinity and mortality start the same way: |
76 |
Julien Baker |
"Favor - Jesu Remix" |
single |
with anything you are given and willingly transform, |
77 |
CHVRCHES |
"Better If You Don't" |
Screen Violence |
knowing that time is irreversible and still throwing yourself into moments, |
78 |
The Ultimate Heroes |
"Hindi Na Nga - Punk Rock Version" |
Punk Rock Covers, Vol. 3 |
knowing that everything you say with true belief will turn out to be wrong, |
79 |
Megaraptor |
"Jolene" |
single |
but so will the things you disclaim or disown, |
80 |
Rina Sawayama |
"Enter Sandman" |
single |
and if you believe wrong things with grace, |
81 |
Emma Blackery |
"How Soon Is Now?" |
Girl In A Box |
you get to keep the grace. |
82 |
The Neal Morse Band |
"Bridge over Troubled Water" |
Innocence & Danger |
You can tell what we have transcended by what mundane infrastructure becomes frivolous architecture, |
83 |
Marli Siu |
"Ae Fond Kiss (Choral)" |
Our Ladies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
and what private whispers become collective anthems, |
84 |
Eddi Reader |
"In A Big Country" |
Our Ladies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
and what survives the tenuous instants when we think maybe nothing can. |