1 |
Moderatto |
"Nuestro Amor" |
Nuestro Amor +1 |
We begin, when we don't know how to begin, with the effortless and benificent gift of our own nostalgia, |
2 |
Jyrki 69 |
"Don't You Want Me" |
single |
infused with self-awareness that we probably only recognize |
3 |
Halflives |
"Wannabe" |
single |
as we watch the layer of generosity unwrapped, |
4 |
First to Eleven |
"Bad Romance" |
single |
the next layer of regret heedlessly discarded, |
5 |
Lion's Share |
"Knock on Wood" |
single |
glitter scattering, |
6 |
False Memories |
"December" |
Echoes of a Reflection |
remembering every other holiday and gift at once, |
7 |
Finding Kate |
"Something In The Way" |
single |
retrospectively become offerings to the dead. |
8 |
LÉON |
"Fade Into A Dream" |
single |
This is how we survive the cold, |
9 |
LP |
"When We Touch" |
Churches |
by finding ways to give away the warmth |
10 |
Aoife O'Donovan |
"Age of Apathy" |
Age of Apathy +2 |
we leak. |
11 |
Zakes Bantwini |
"Bawo" |
Ghetto King |
The winter, as it touches you, says "Somewhere it is summer. |
12 |
De Mthuda |
"Khwela Khwela" |
The Landlord 2.0 |
The tiny movements you make as you shiver |
13 |
Bongo Beats |
"Baxolele" |
Bangiloyile |
maintain the charge in dormant muscles |
14 |
Rethabile Khumalo |
"Nomnganga" |
single |
during moments of stasis, |
15 |
Mr JazziQ |
"Bolaya (feat. Mellow & Sleazy, Djy Ma'Ten & M.J)" |
single |
paralysis |
16 |
Zakes Bantwini |
"2am In Space" |
Ghetto King |
and doubt." |
17 |
Ricardo Arjona |
"Mal Por Ti" |
Negro |
We have been given a tilted world |
18 |
Jesse & Joy |
"Llórale a tu madre" |
single |
spun by the tensions between counterposed seasons |
19 |
Danny Ocean |
"Rubia sol morena 🌙 v2" |
single |
as much as by the way it takes away and then returns the light. |
20 |
Veintiuno |
"Cortavenas - Versión EMO" |
Corazonadas |
We inhabit it inside-out, |
21 |
Dorian |
"Dos vidas" |
single |
pretending that our helplessnesses |
22 |
Mon Band |
"Mi Respiración" |
single |
are not obvious to everyone, pouring out of us with our breath. |
23 |
Bodhi |
"Liberate" |
single |
We only know how to yearn for things we already have |
24 |
Charlotte Sands |
"Keep Me Up All Night" |
single |
but aren't yet prepared to acknowledge. |
25 |
Autumn Fires |
"Small Talk" |
single |
Thing things we actually need, |
26 |
GGGOLDDD |
"Notes on How to Trust" |
single |
we resent too much. |
27 |
Cult Of Luna |
"Cold Burn" |
single |
The night, as it receives you, says "You smell of light. |
28 |
Eramaa |
"One Hell" |
single |
We have only these moments together |
29 |
Smyčka |
"Племя" |
single |
in which to pretend an illusory kinship of fear |
30 |
Kalevala |
"Fly Away On Wings Of The Wind" |
single |
that ultimately we believe even less than you." |
31 |
Magica |
"Mortal Attraction" |
single |
And all you do is wake away, |
32 |
Revolution Eve |
"Babylon" |
Life |
singing one of our uncountable songs of uncontainable memory. |
33 |
Eyes Set To Kill |
"Room 102 (Fading Light)" |
DAMNA 6 |
We have been in these rooms before. |
34 |
The Gathering |
"Stronger - Radio Edit" |
single |
That's what rooms are, even when they are new: |
35 |
Within Temptation |
"Forsaken - The Aftermath" |
single |
summaries of obsolete finities |
36 |
Coronatus |
"To The Gods Of Wind & Sun" |
Atmosphere |
prepared for ceremonies of dispensation, |
37 |
Orkhys |
"Annwvyn" |
A Way |
effigies of conclusiveness |
38 |
R!N |
"DREAMERS" |
single |
made to use up our most flammable debris |
39 |
ASCA |
"逆境スペクトル" |
single |
so that we can replace it with something more translucent |
40 |
BiS |
"浮き雲" |
BiS DiVE into ROCKS |
and begin to learn the implications of new properties. |
41 |
Regal Lily |
"中央線" |
single |
We are given slender and quivering wands, |
42 |
なきごと |
"Hitorigurashi" |
patoro-nenouchigawade 5 |
and begin by jamming them into hinges |
43 |
KISIDA KYODAN & THE AKEBOSI ROCKETS |
"TRIGGER" |
single |
or trying to use them to pry up deep-seated rocks |
44 |
SHINGEKI |
"Shinsoukyoku:lightning" |
single |
or hold low flags higher or vice versa. |
45 |
MELiSSA |
"LETTERS" |
single |
Magic, as it watches you struggle, says "Everything we need to tell you |
46 |
The Otals |
"The Sweet Revenge for the Devil" |
single |
is phrased the most beautifully in your own unwritten journals. |
47 |
milet |
"Fly High" |
single |
We are reading them to ourselves, serenely, |
48 |
近藤玲奈 |
"僕が愛される日は" |
11次元のLena |
while we listen to your frantic songs." |
49 |
lilygakkidan |
"Borderline" |
Experience |
There is a line between cruelty and grace |
50 |
Nothing’s Carved In Stone |
"Walk" |
single |
that we see clearly enough when it is safely in our distance, |
51 |
SLOTHREAT |
"Rebels" |
Asymmetrical Harmony 4 |
but lose sight of when it reaches our peripheral vision. |
52 |
Asunojokei |
"Chimera" |
single |
If only we had an extra head, we think, |
53 |
Boris |
"Drowning by Numbers" |
single |
or two. |
54 |
WagakkiBand |
"名作ジャーニー" |
single |
As if heads aren't mostly the problem, to begin with. |
55 |
Manimal |
"Slaves of Babylon" |
Armageddon |
Brains the shape of planets, and we use them to try to figure out how to get other people |
56 |
Dynazty |
"Power of Will" |
single |
to make the things we shouldn't want, |
57 |
Serious Black |
"Senso Della Vita" |
Senso Della Vita +2 |
but don't want to admit we don't know how to build. |
58 |
Volbeat |
"Temple Of Ekur" |
Servant Of The Mind |
The gods we invoke, tolerating this brief distraction from their own hobbies, |
59 |
Beriedir |
"Stormbound" |
single |
say "We gave you chaos, |
60 |
Harpyie |
"Blutadler" |
single |
and tiny spinning particles that conspire to form both bricks and skin, |
61 |
Gåte |
"Sigurd og Trollbrura" |
Nord |
and cartoon assembly guides illustrated with outlines of creatures that could only be you. |
62 |
Ereb Altor |
"I Have the Sky" |
single |
All you had to do was pour the chaos into the shapes of yourselves |
63 |
Svartsot |
"Liden Kirsten" |
single |
and not let it immediately drain or fountain out again. |
64 |
Amorphis |
"The Moon" |
single |
All you had to do was notice that the most darkness we ever gave you was a context for radiance. |
65 |
Cepheide |
"Les Larmes" |
Les Echappées |
All you had to do was fall in love with each other, |
66 |
Worship |
"Mercy" |
Mercy +2 |
and we made you more beautiful than terrifying to make that easy. |
67 |
Aquilus |
"Eternal Unrest" |
Bellum I |
And yet, somehow, you devised artificial scarcities for the definitionally omnipresent, |
68 |
So Hideous |
"Motorik Visage" |
None But a Pure Heart Can Sing |
and a taxonomy of irrefutably humane movements you make to assert their impossibility. |
69 |
Cosmophobe |
"Alien Atmosphere" |
Transcendence |
We gave you math, |
70 |
The Algorithm |
"Cryptographic Memory" |
Cryptographic Memory 5 |
and you use it to put ruthlessly ascending page-numbers |
71 |
Mimi Barks |
"SUICIDE" |
single |
on scriptures of methodical irrationality. |
72 |
Fire-Toolz |
"I Was Born at the Wrong Time" |
Bio Blade 2 |
We gave you inexorable history, |
73 |
Black Country, New Road |
"Concorde" |
Concorde +2 |
and you write it into arbitrary segments to disguise its course. |
74 |
Mirac |
"PARANOYA" |
single |
We gave you a third-dry third sphere in a Euclidean universe, |
75 |
Anxiety Attacks! |
"Climate Change" |
single |
and you spend your time fighting about lines on land while the line between land and water creeps. |
76 |
underscores |
"Tongue in cheek" |
boneyard aka fearmonger |
We gave you, finally, guitars, when it seemed like all the other clues had not been obvious enough. |
77 |
demxntia |
"stay in hell, pt. II" |
single |
How do you have these songs, but still think you need more from us?" |
78 |
Ready Steady Steroids |
"Matching Piece" |
single |
And we say "Yeah, whatever", and we count to four as if that was the first number. |
79 |
Primo |
"Scared of Love" |
single |
We procastinate self-awareness because we understand moments better than bliss. |
80 |
Principe Valiente |
"Porcelain" |
Porcelain +3 |
You made us this way, too, beautiful and fragile and suffused in things we think are darkness. |
81 |
Ilari Hämäläinen |
"Et Tuu Muuttumaan" |
single |
You gave us lattitudes, but made some of them hard to reach, |
82 |
Kuolemanlaakso |
"Katkeruuden malja" |
single |
so of course our legends move in ritual circles around loss, |
83 |
Lasten Hautausmaa |
"Ajokoira" |
single |
even before we lose anything. |
84 |
Juan Boucher |
"Die Konings Van Helde" |
Hier Waar Ek Nou Is |
We fill them with heroes, as if they could ever be about anybody but ourselves. |
85 |
Demi Lee Moore |
"Dromer" |
Jy Ken My Naam |
We used your math to count you, over and over, finding one fewer every time. |
86 |
Amangcukumane |
"Asambeni" |
Ung;Thinta Kanjani? |
We will begin again when we have to, when we finally run out of you, and excuses, |
87 |
Zakes Bantwini |
"Kumnyama" |
Ghetto King |
but not out of gifts, and not out of songs. |