1 |
AINSEL |
"Prologue" |
Prologue +1 |
Measure your time in chances to begin, |
2 |
MindaRyn |
"Shine" |
single |
in opportunities to stand with the darkness behind you |
3 |
Maaya Uchida |
"Never Ending Symphony" |
Hikari |
and not yet see where the light runs out. |
4 |
UNDEAD CORPORATION |
"Fragments" |
Fragments +2 |
This time maybe it will not. |
5 |
Quubi |
"Break of dawn" |
single |
We only have to run at the speed of the planet's spin, |
6 |
CHiCO with HoneyWorks |
"大人になったね" |
我武者羅 4 |
and we have been standing still at that speed all along, |
7 |
Yuu Miyashita |
"Koufukuron" |
single |
so it's just a matter of productive orientation, |
8 |
kankakupiero |
"Bokuwakanojowoaisenai" |
single |
in the same way that falling proves we can fly. |
9 |
Regal Lily |
"アルケミラ" |
single |
We have internalized cyclicality |
10 |
amazarashi |
"境界線" |
single |
even more than gravity, |
11 |
THE ORAL CIGARETTES |
"MACHINEGUN" |
single |
and this is why it is easier to jump |
12 |
TETSUYA |
"白いチューリップ" |
白いチューリップ +2 |
than to escape the pattern of jumping and landing, |
13 |
BBHF |
"Home run" |
single |
and easier to cheer for excellence in running in circles |
14 |
SHINGEKI |
"OXIBUGY" |
single |
than for the volition to pull us over a horizon. |
15 |
NEMOPHILA |
"REVIVE" |
single |
All games are constructed so that the game-pieces may leave the game, |
16 |
FEST VAINQUEUR |
"Gerbera" |
BOUQUET |
and the players may not. |
17 |
Esprit D'Air |
"双方ライアー" |
双方ライアー 6 |
The best games disguise this as inevitability |
18 |
SHOW-YA |
"EYE to EYE" |
single |
in the hopes that you will forget |
19 |
Temperance |
"Breaking the Rules of Heavy Metal" |
Breaking the Rules of Heavy Metal +1 |
you are playing. |
20 |
Last Days of Eden |
"Abracadabra" |
Butterflies |
Thus the best magic is violational, |
21 |
The Murder of My Sweet |
"A Ghost of a Chance" |
single |
not disregarding the rules but regarding them |
22 |
Embersland |
"Harbouring Me" |
The Harbour In Me |
until they flinch, |
23 |
Elisaday |
"Fire or Ice" |
Auftakt 4 |
and then reaching into this momentary weakness |
24 |
Fleesh |
"Let It Burn" |
Eclipsed |
with swords and fire and amendments and mercilessness. |
25 |
Manora |
"System Shutdown" |
Brave The Storm |
You will have chances to inherit other idealists' conceptual mistakes, |
26 |
Manora |
"Endgame" |
Brave The Storm |
and what you gather you can disassemble. |
27 |
Blind Summit |
"Pontos" |
Hell 3 |
Measure your reach by swinging hammers |
28 |
Jim Peterik And World Stage |
"A Cappella" |
single |
and listening to how they pass through the air, first, on their way anywhere. |
29 |
Mhelyssa |
"Si Una Vez" |
single |
The dead have one day, |
30 |
Dead Venus |
"Plaything Doll - Single Cut" |
single |
the rest are ours; |
31 |
Lutharo |
"What Sleeps in Your Mind" |
Hiraeth |
the nights are contested, |
32 |
Lords of Black |
"Maker of Nothingness" |
Alchemy of Souls, Pt. II |
but uncertain only by our tiered and tired grace. |
33 |
Brundarkh |
"Tower of Blood" |
Haunted Worlds 6 |
Measure your enemies by the view from their fortifications, |
34 |
Skeletoon |
"Outatime" |
The 1.21 Gigawatts Club |
as you pass beyond it. |
35 |
Rhapsody Of Fire |
"Terial the Hawk" |
single |
We do not invest in standing still, |
36 |
Leverage |
"Falling out of Grace" |
Above the Beyond |
we sink under the weight of our treasure. |
37 |
Astray Valley |
"The Architect" |
Tales of Lun 6 |
Dragons are our cautionary tales, |
38 |
Gåte |
"Solfager og Ormekongen" |
single |
skulking sulfuriously in what we tellingly understand to be abandoned halls |
39 |
Omnium Gatherum |
"Fortitude" |
single |
despite the balance of their scales. |
40 |
Anomalie |
"Trance V: Cerulean Sun" |
single |
The coiled have a catacomb apiece; |
41 |
Detset |
"The Mechanic" |
single |
the scorched and splintered new towns are ours. |
42 |
Ryan Oakes |
"AMPLIFIER" |
AMPLIFIER +3 |
Why and would won't do you any good. |
43 |
James Colt |
"Here" |
single |
All Smaug really proved was that there's always an alternative to jeweled goblets. |
44 |
Yung Scuff |
"u scare me but i'm sure u get that a lot" |
single |
Take the gold, leave us the guitars. |
45 |
miraie |
"SILENT FLOWERS" |
single |
Take the academies, leave us the wifi password. |
46 |
aldn |
"n2o" |
single |
Measure your wealth in open files, |
47 |
Hyd |
"The Look On Your Face" |
The Look On Your Face +2 |
in infinite openable files, |
48 |
Alice Longyu Gao |
"Never Coming Back" |
High Dragon and Universe 6 |
in songs that will not become unsung, |
49 |
Barrie |
"Frankie" |
Frankie +1 |
in passwords to the shell accounts of people you distrusted |
50 |
Alaska Reid |
"Always" |
single |
until you saw what they have tried to delete. |
51 |
Foxes |
"Dance Magic" |
single |
The rocks that spin around our heads are far away. |
52 |
K.Flay |
"Nothing Can Kill Us" |
single |
The people that pass us in moving bodies are close. |
53 |
Thyla |
"3" |
3 +1 |
Fire your hammers into the sun, |
54 |
Cassadee Pope |
"Same Old Brand New Me" |
Thrive |
and pay attention to the ellipticity of your skin. |
55 |
Julia Michaels |
"Just One Look" |
single |
Shapeless coats cover gleaming ways to not be angry any more, |
56 |
Marisa Maino |
"growing up can go to hell" |
single |
wrapping disillusionment around preillusionment |
57 |
AURORA |
"Giving In To The Love" |
single |
as if we grow by accreting layers of evocative untruth, |
58 |
Felicia Takman |
"Lagom, vanlig och lame" |
single |
slowly becoming smaller fractions of our volume |
59 |
Linnea Henriksson |
"En dålig idé" |
single |
until we are gigantic and silent, |
60 |
Feroe |
"Salvajes" |
single |
or unavoidable and unintelligible. |
61 |
Malú |
"Se Busca" |
single |
But remember: inside every coprolitic monument |
62 |
Ainoa Buitrago |
"No Me Detendrá" |
La Ruta de las Flores |
is an ass who never learned to imagine success beyond the immediate, |
63 |
Joy |
"El Viaje" |
single |
and thus squandered a magic pebble on a moment of panic. |
64 |
Tori Amos |
"Spies" |
single |
Knowing this might not help you open their eyes, |
65 |
The Gathering |
"In Colour" |
single |
but it might contribute to better theories about why we conflate immobility and immovability, |
66 |
Emma Ruth Rundle |
"Blooms of Oblivion" |
single |
and thus end up standing exhaustingly for nothing. |
67 |
Ydegirl |
"Just a Scene" |
Ydegirl |
Measure the legacies you receive by how you can consume them, |
68 |
Zheani |
"Fuck the Hollywood Cult" |
single |
half for your own energy, half so that they do not have to be passed on any further. |
69 |
Kælan Mikla |
"Svört Augu" |
Undir Köldum Norðurljósum |
Go where the darkness has grown complacent, |
70 |
A.A. Williams |
"Cold" |
arco 4 |
and see how it has furiously recapitulated mercy within its void. |
71 |
Illudium |
"Where Death and Dreams Do Manifest" |
Ash of the Womb |
The further north or south you go, the slower you have to run to stand still, |
72 |
Ethereal Shroud |
"Discarnate" |
single |
until you reach the point in the game where the rules are all obviated. |
73 |
Vildhjarta |
"lavender haze" |
måsstaden under vatten |
The rocks that spin above us have endless hours, and dream of declining; |
74 |
Outrun The Sunlight |
"Emerald Joy" |
Emerald Joy +1 |
below them we elegantly disintegrate in too-brief moments |
75 |
Mickosis |
"Aiur" |
single |
of heroic aspiration, |
76 |
Fire-Toolz |
"Odd Cat Sanctuary" |
Eternal Home |
catalogued in inscrutable and instantly forgotten schemes. |
77 |
Deine Lakaien |
"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" |
single |
The sun is a sentimentalist and a hoarder, |
78 |
TK from Ling tosite sigure |
"film A moment ( film edition )" |
egomaniac feedback |
and I think we always knew and counted on this. |
79 |
Geographer |
"Peripheral Vision" |
Peripheral Vision +2 |
Wouldn't it have to be by now, from watching us out here, sparkling in tiny bursts of discarded and offered light? |
80 |
HYYTS |
"Singing Your Name" |
single |
The things you think you will never want again |
81 |
Lovejoy |
"It's All Futile! It's All Pointless!" |
Pebble Brain |
are bricks for nostalgia-building, |
82 |
SADBOii |
"Honestly" |
single |
hardened by their time in the care of the sun |
83 |
Shamir |
"Gay Agenda" |
single |
until the day they shine back down upon us, |
84 |
Odonis Odonis |
"A Body" |
Spectrums |
a sudden ray stabbing us in the head when we thought we were dancing imperiously in the dark. |
85 |
Black Country, New Road |
"Chaos Space Marine" |
single |
Measure your potential by the declarations you retain the authority to unilaterally rescind, |
86 |
Joven Dolores |
"Brutal Delicadeza" |
Un Segundo |
by the traps you set for yourself in places you secretly knew you would eventually want to go again, |
87 |
Moito! |
"Las Bandas del Mañana" |
single |
by the convictions that expired to release you before you knew you were ready to stop believing them. |
88 |
Eizbrand |
"Phoenix aus der Asche" |
Pyromanie |
Measure your securities by how they render themselves moot, |
89 |
Infamia |
"El Guardián" |
Crisálida |
and offer you new helplessnesses to reprotect. |
90 |
Pablo Alborán |
"Llueve sobre mojado" |
single |
You are never far from the light: |
91 |
Nino D'Angelo |
"Pane e canzone" |
Il Poeta che non sa parlare |
barely occluded or fleetingly distracted by some other antics, |
92 |
Die Heuwels Fantasties |
"EGGO" |
single |
but always a microsecond away from remembering that it's still in love with you |
93 |
Sun-El Musician |
"Woza" |
single |
and brushing across the base of your spine |
94 |
Mashudu Nematoka |
"Muvhofhololi" |
single |
or around the inner curve of an ear. |
95 |
De Mthuda |
"Khanda Liyazula" |
single |
We are composed of light and darkness |
96 |
TRESOR |
"Smoke & Mirrors (feat. Ami Faku)" |
Motion |
the way regret is constructed out of clarity and time, |
97 |
uQhoshangokwenzakwakhe |
"Dololo" |
single |
and then everything but clarity erodes. |
98 |
Nhii |
"Sapphire Penumbra" |
Tu Sombra 3 |
All games, by definition, suspend some usually-applicable disbelief. |
99 |
Leo Guardo |
"Niamini - Enoo Napa Dub" |
Niamini 2 |
Games, art, dragons: |
100 |
Bantwanas |
"Kora" |
Kora EP |
all of these are systems of release. |
101 |
Cyndi Lauper |
"Heading For The Moon" |
True Colors |
The other rocks, in the end, are no better or worse |
102 |
Cole Rolland |
"Sweet Child O' Mine" |
Sweet Child O' Mine +2 |
until we choose the one upon which we're going to make our next stand. |
103 |
Emigrate |
"ALWAYS ON MY MIND (feat. Till Lindemann)" |
single |
We're on a promontory on the moon, cape swirling in the imaginary lunar wind, about to make a speech about betrayal to nobody. |
104 |
Maggie Szabo |
"Buttercup" |
single |
But it's fine, it's not a speech intended to move an audience. It's a speech, like most speeches delivered to space, about our own past trajectory portrayed as an immutable orbit. But if you're coming back from giving a speech on the moon to start over again on the ground, you can land anywhere. |