1 |
Nocean |
"The Rise" |
single |
The first power streaming music offers is access to the world. |
2 |
Battle Beast |
"Master of Illusion" |
single |
You can find songs from places you have never been, |
3 |
Supernova Plasmajets |
"Beggin'" |
Now or Never |
or places you have visited dozens of times but come home from. |
4 |
MoonSun |
"Slain by Silence" |
single |
But listening has inertia, like anything else that displaces air, |
5 |
Ignea |
"Magura's Last Kiss" |
Bestia 5 |
and the second power streaming offers is release from its necessity. |
6 |
Ersedu |
"Black Garden" |
Bestia 5 |
If the song you are listening to is not carrying you into awe, |
7 |
Septem Voices |
"Смерть историй" |
single |
other songs are waiting eagerly to try. |
8 |
Hand of Kalliach |
"Òran na Tein'-éigin" |
Samhainn |
You are no longer constrained by your records, |
9 |
Neopera |
"Verge of War" |
single |
and thus have to answer for your hypothetical soul: |
10 |
Carmilla |
"People of the Eagle" |
single |
will it wander eternally tormented by the idea that there are better songs you haven't heard yet, |
11 |
Secret Rule |
"A New War" |
single |
or will it converge on a point of at once static and ecstatic familiarity? |
12 |
Catalyst Crime |
"Projection of My Mind" |
Catalyst Crime |
Is your favorite song an unreachable ideal, |
13 |
Rage Of Light |
"Lead The Riot" |
single |
or an inescapable one? |
14 |
ael-アエル- |
"陽炎" |
DREAMER |
It should be neither. |
15 |
LiSA |
"明け星" |
single |
The pessimist and the optimist should be left to their stained and factional cups. |
16 |
CYCLONISTA |
"TEENAGE LIFE" |
TEENAGE LIFE +1 |
You dip a clear glass in the unemptiable ocean |
17 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"TOMOSHIBI" |
single |
not to measure it, but to see what it contains. |
18 |
眩暈SIREN |
"不可逆的な命の肖像" |
single |
The paradise of choice is that every glass is completely full of wonder, |
19 |
ナナランド |
"開花宣言!" |
開花宣言! (Special Edition) |
but the glasses fit in your hand and the ocean doesn't even fit in your mind. |
20 |
Seiko Oomori |
"ひらいて" |
ひらいて +1 |
This song, this one, oh my god. |
21 |
yama |
"Oz." |
single |
But instead of an interminable, flawlessly undifferentiated afterlife, |
22 |
AliA |
"On this night once in a century" |
single |
this Elysia fields eternity in minute and imperfectable intervals. |
23 |
tricot |
"餌にもなれない" |
single |
These songs don't supersede each other. |
24 |
the peggies |
"Hello Sugar" |
The GARDEN |
They are not ranked. |
25 |
KISIDA KYODAN & THE AKEBOSI ROCKETS |
"ナイトウォッチ" |
異世界転生したらベストアルバムでした。 |
Art and joy are not ranked, |
26 |
sui sui |
"Runner's High" |
single |
they are only sequenced. |
27 |
The Pheromone Syndicate |
"Copied & Pasted" |
single |
We move them around, |
28 |
Ashnikko |
"Halloweenie IV: Innards" |
single |
not to reach a conclusion |
29 |
carolesdaughter |
"My Mother Wants Me Dead" |
single |
or dispose of a burden, |
30 |
GIRLI |
"I Don’t Like Myself" |
Damsel in Distress 5 |
but to look at reflections of ourselves in our own eyes, |
31 |
Senses |
"sick goodbye" |
single |
and then to blink |
32 |
mental |
"skylight" |
single |
and see what was hidden behind and inside of us. |
33 |
funeral |
"NO RUSSIAN" |
single |
You will go places to which you will not want to return. |
34 |
CMTEN |
"I'm Going to Cedar Point" |
single |
But often this is a result of the ardor of the journey to get there, |
35 |
Anxiety Attacks! |
"6 Foot Hole" |
single |
or even of what was required to come back, |
36 |
Arkaeo |
"Never the Same" |
single |
and when you can be every place at once, |
37 |
The Wldlfe |
"Close to You" |
single |
all the places are yours. |
38 |
miraie |
"TOMARE" |
single |
You can float above them. |
39 |
Lilac |
"changed" |
single |
They may transform when you are not watching, |
40 |
Yung Skrrt |
"Further Comes First" |
Frame Break 3 |
but in doing so never become any differently distant. |
41 |
ONI INC. |
"Sunshine & Rainbows" |
single |
Joy may be contorted |
42 |
Indigo Raven |
"Our Sacred Soil" |
Looking for Transcendence |
without change to its helical structure. |
43 |
Blackwater Holylight |
"Who The Hell" |
Silence/Motion |
Funerals differ from other rituals |
44 |
Myrkur |
"Rivers Blessed - Demo" |
single |
mainly for their unaffected subjects. |
45 |
forfedre |
"Runar" |
Runar 6 |
Any legend you are hearing told, |
46 |
SKÁLD |
"Jólanótt" |
single |
you survived, |
47 |
Runa Llena |
"Keltoi" |
single |
but this doesn't establish their irrelevance, |
48 |
Hulkoff |
"Vápnum - Svitjod Edition" |
Ragnarök |
it confirms your instrinsic responsibility for how they are re-applied. |
49 |
Obscura |
"When Stars Collide" |
When Stars Collide +3 |
All cataclysmic cosmology is metaphor to the unincinerated: |
50 |
Arch Enemy |
"Deceiver, Deceiver" |
single |
fireworks in the image of perdition. |
51 |
Bloodred Hourglass |
"Leaves" |
Your Highness |
It isn't that no real things burn, |
52 |
Voutsa |
"11th Hour" |
single |
it's that they are never consumed by transient and illusory claims about fire, |
53 |
Sarke |
"Grim Awakening" |
single |
and however starkly divided we are by arguments over the morality or significance of flames, |
54 |
Swallow The Sun |
"Enemy" |
Enemy +1 |
we are still united against their heat |
55 |
Raat |
"Eternity" |
Eternity +3 |
and in their light. |
56 |
1914 |
"FN .380 ACP#19074" |
Where Fear and Weapons Meet |
War is how you get from bad planning to gruesome history |
57 |
Gravpel |
"Tribute to Tiqqun | Identity" |
Power to the filthy Masses |
and back again. |
58 |
Archgoat |
"Black Womb Gnosis" |
single |
But all any side wins is the chance for all of them to start over from that same lost place, |
59 |
Cradle Of Filth |
"Existential Terror" |
Existence Is Futile |
no less scared |
60 |
Dream Theater |
"Transcending Time" |
A View From The Top Of The World |
but hopefully a little more certain that you can't become unlost by declarational sovereignty. |
61 |
Within Progress |
"Sky We Want, Sky We Love" |
Inner |
Progress is not a leftward movement, but a centering of the possible |
62 |
Manimal |
"Chains of Fury" |
Chains of Fury 5 |
amidst the ruins of anger |
63 |
Burning Point |
"Rules the Universe" |
Arsonist of the Soul |
and the retrospective bureaucracy of the burned. |
64 |
Serious Black |
"Rock with Us Tonight" |
Rock with Us Tonight +1 |
This song, ludicent and grandiculous, |
65 |
Symphony Of Sweden |
"Angels" |
single |
can carry us out of here, |
66 |
Groundbreaker |
"There's No Tomorrow" |
single |
out of this relentless year. |
67 |
ONE OK ROCK |
"Wonder - Japanese Version" |
Wonder 2 |
The first power joy offers is the ability to be immortal at the scale of moments, |
68 |
PLOT SCRAPS |
"Kokuhaku" |
single |
and thus meaningfully divine. |
69 |
CHIC BOY |
"kusowarobanndozinnsei" |
kusowarobandozinsei 4 |
Performative joy is thus the imitation of heaven, |
70 |
sever black paranoia |
"Lowly Love" |
single |
and performative doom is the same thing |
71 |
Mr.FanTastiC |
"ブレイキングブレイジング" |
single |
as sarcastic parody. |
72 |
KAMI WA SAIKORO WO FURANAI |
"タイムファクター" |
single |
Disbelief, too, drags you along whatever course you set it on. |
73 |
Straightener |
"宇宙の夜 二人の朝" |
single |
I have brought home half-forgotten records from faraway places |
74 |
SARPARANTA |
"Tämä voisi olla paratiisi" |
Takaisin merkitykseen |
I can now return to in delirious instants. |
75 |
The Trews |
"Permission" |
single |
The second power joy offers is freedom |
76 |
Bastille |
"No Bad Days" |
No Bad Days +3 |
from enemies: |
77 |
JAGUWAR |
"Monuments" |
Gold |
from your heroes and thus from their enemies, |
78 |
Puppet |
"The Worst Part About Me" |
single |
from the enemies that turn out to be you in other people's clothes nodding their heads |
79 |
Biffy Clyro |
"Errors In The History Of God" |
The Myth of The Happily Ever After |
along the axes you assume they incline, |
80 |
Justin Courtney Pierre |
"Somewhere A Dark Heart" |
single |
from imagined or asserted enemies used to justify observed loss, |
81 |
James Arthur |
"SOS" |
single |
from siege and thus from the need for a moral system predicated on rescue. |
82 |
Dua Saleh |
"trash snacks" |
CROSSOVER |
Is your favorite song about mistakes you will probably make, |
83 |
HEALTH |
"DEAD FLOWERS" |
single |
or about ways to hold onto them afterwards? |
84 |
Vazum |
"Jester" |
Unrated V |
Art is either edible, |
85 |
Creux Lies |
"Renegade" |
Goodbye Divine |
or a way to fix a point in decompositional time, |
86 |
Anna Lux |
"Schön Sein - Radio Edit" |
single |
or an explanation of how these two things are not different. |
87 |
Moyka |
"When" |
The Revelations of Love |
Everything we live on is dead: |
88 |
Carissa Johnson |
"Polaroids" |
single |
every moment in our pictures, |
89 |
He Is We |
"Finish Line" |
Finish Line +1 |
every triumph in our claims, |
90 |
PVRIS |
"My Way" |
single |
every answer to questions that are thus no longer asked. |
91 |
Autumn Fires |
"Open My Eyes" |
single |
You can take a story we have all heard a million times |
92 |
Glacier Veins |
"Cover Me" |
single |
and throw away all of it except for "Once", |
93 |
Waiting 4 April |
"Photo Memory" |
single |
and still end up telling it again, |
94 |
Southern Lights |
"Better Again" |
single |
blurrier and inexplicable and immeasurably improved. |
95 |
Hand Habits |
"More Than Love" |
Fun House |
It reminds me of something, |
96 |
Alex Lahey |
"Spike The Punch" |
single |
and as I'm standing here trying to remember what, |
97 |
LÉON |
"Soaked" |
single |
you can be dancing in rain or tears or breath, |
98 |
Lindy-Fay Hella |
"Los" |
single |
or drifting in definitional aplomb. |
99 |
Lights |
"Prodigal Daughter" |
single |
Art is either kinetic |
100 |
Gracie Abrams |
"Rockland" |
single |
or exhortational. |
101 |
ROSIE |
"Screaming Underwater" |
20mg of Happiness |
You can be floating in seas or tears or air, |
102 |
Rain Paris |
"Easy On Me - Radio Edit" |
single |
demanding that it carry you. |
103 |
Taylor Acorn |
"Left You Instead" |
single |
This is how a story begins |
104 |
Tenille Arts |
"That's My Friend You're Talkin' About" |
Girl to Girl |
that ends on a beach or on a road or wherever you are standing exactly now, |
105 |
Vanesa Martín |
"Soy" |
single |
or how a story ends that starts there. |
106 |
Malú |
"Abran Fuego" |
Mil Batallas |
Art is either happening now |
107 |
Ricardo Arjona |
"De la Ilusión Al Miedo" |
single |
or it's too late to be afraid of what it implies. |
108 |
Die Heuwels Fantasties |
"Hoor Jy My" |
Volume |
The first power we accept is the authority to return the abandoned air that we have collected inside of us |
109 |
Vico da sporo |
"Sila" |
single |
back to the world in a newly definitive grace, |
110 |
De Mthuda |
"Inkomo Zam" |
The Landlord |
at a pace slower than our heart but faster than our fear. |
111 |
Msaki |
"Mntakababa" |
single |
As you do not fault each of your own breaths for the ways in which they repeat each other, |
112 |
Moonchild Sanelly |
"Covivi" |
single |
so we may return to the same joys or the same fountains of joy or the same paths that maybe once led to fountains. |
113 |
Kususa |
"Abantu Bakho" |
Abantu Bakho +1 |
We do not say not this joy again, |
114 |
Darksidevinyl |
"Ulu" |
Ulu +1 |
but this is a skill we have learned, |
115 |
Thandi Draai |
"Out of Africa" |
single |
and then forgotten we were not born with. |
116 |
Vanco |
"Memeza" |
Memeza +1 |
The second power we accept is the astonishing capacity to disregard the intractable impossibility of existence |
117 |
Nandy |
"Kunjani" |
single |
and dance like there is music and there is us and we can hear it. |
118 |
Bruce Melodie |
"Sawa Sawa" |
single |
This is how a song can catch us before we even fall. |
119 |
bliss3three |
"MIRROR's GUIDE" |
MIRROR's GUIDE +1 |
This is how a noise can explain that we are infinitely suspended, |
120 |
Kcin |
"The Hushings - Ambient Edition" |
single |
and cannot fall, |
121 |
Phyllomedusa |
"Urspelerpes Upluck (Who Cleans Up Toadkill?)" |
Froggy Got Run Over By Vantana Row 2 |
and the rushing ground is there to give the air something to touch. |
122 |
Leæther Strip |
"Dr. Mabuse (First Life)" |
Æppreciation V |
This rushing ground looks familiar. |
123 |
Melissa Ferrick |
"You're No Rock N' Roll Fun" |
single |
This song, oh my god, wait. Were we always like this? |
124 |
Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku |
"ジャンプ - From THE FIRST TAKE" |
single |
Every lost and perfect minute of our life? |