| 1 | My Own Ghost | "Your Turn" | single | Two years and counting to defeat an invisible menace; three minutes to recapitulate transformational wonder. |
| 2 | The Murder of My Sweet | "Father's Eyes" | A Gentleman's Legacy | We have all of our ancestors' gifts for music but still too much of their miserable inadequacy in medicine and general control of our own mundane fates. |
| 3 | Rage Of Light | "Aspiration" | Redemption | We wonder, unreflectively, how an ant can go about its industrious days not paralyzed by awareness of their fewness. |
| 4 | Eye of Melian | "The Bell" | single | The ant hums to itself. |
| 5 | Blackbriar | "Fairy of the Bog" | single | So at least we lead by example, |
| 6 | Moonlight Haze | "Animus" | single | even when we wander, |
| 7 | Lacey Sturm | "Awaken Love" | single | as long as you agree that leadership is the act of attributing cause for the movements you perceive to the movements you think you made. |
| 8 | The Last Martyr | "Out Of Time" | Purgatory 5 | Exploration and discovery are not acts of leadership |
| 9 | Gone Til Winter | "Truth In You" | single | unless you misunderstand them as dominance, |
| 10 | Frantic Amber | "Angel Maker" | single | which is of course exactly how we usually portray them, |
| 11 | Fear Of Domination | "Exitus" | VI Revelation | because conclusive epics of irrational power are easier to stage |
| 12 | Balance Breach | "Overthrown" | Overthrown +1 | than endless cycles of irresolvable curiosity and serene dismay. |
| 13 | Sebastien | "Lví stopou" | single | This is why, too, we keep inventing more ways to treat art as reductive competition than ways to rethink competition as shared art, |
| 14 | Atlas | "Taivaanranta" | UKKO | and in turn how we keep thinking that the people just beyond our immediate gaze |
| 15 | Kaamos Warriors | "Vapaus" | single | are engaged in irrelevant rituals, |
| 16 | Lucifer's Child | "Satan's Wrath" | single | and thus the proper subjects of the laws we write |
| 17 | Maladie | "Nekrolife" | The Sick Is Dead - Long Live the Sick | with no intention of applying them to ourselves. |
| 18 | Saħħar | "Kożmu Mitluf" | Mexxej ta' Laħam Mejjet 5 | The truths you believe yourself above |
| 19 | TattvA | "Naraka-Hell's Path" | single | tell the merciless anticipatory story of your failures: |
| 20 | Immolation | "Apostle" | single | each doom assigned a hero's name, |
| 21 | No Point in Living | "Chapter 1" | Possessed | each inevitability reformulated as reverence, |
| 22 | Sylvaine | "Nowhere, Still Somewhere" | single | each dead-end granted a throne. |
| 23 | Ethereal Shroud | "Chasmal Fires" | Trisagion | Two thousand years and counting to accept definitional moral responsibility for our existence; 28 minutes to suggest the divine scope of our own power. |
| 24 | Death Verified | "Diamond Dust" | Fuck Winter EP 4 | We thought the summer was going to be glorious. |
| 25 | Breath Of Wind | "Coast I" | Coast | Now we think the winter is going to be horrible. |
| 26 | Berserkyd | "Fighting for Yourself" | single | Both of these are stories of how immune we think we are |
| 27 | Sgàile | "The Summit" | Ideals & Morality | to the consequences of our own relativism, |
| 28 | Symphony Of Sweden | "Will She Fight" | single | and how intent on believing that arbitrarily interrupted arcs |
| 29 | Degreed | "Into the Fire" | single | constitute radience. |
| 30 | SunSet Swish | "STARMAN" | single | But look up. |
| 31 | THE BACK HORN | "kibouwo narase" | single | None of us come from meaningfully away. |
| 32 | ラックライフ | "Koe" | Sneaker Walker | We draw guitars made of blades, |
| 33 | luz | "Despair" | single | and insist we can use them to play unchristmasable songs, |
| 34 | The Mirraz | "décadence" | Japanese English | but the blood hums to itself |
| 35 | Street Story | "さぁゴールへ!" | single | and mostly stubbornly stays inside of us |
| 36 | Luiza | "CALLING" | single | while the songs relentlessly escape. |
| 37 | Unwave | "Reversal of Fate" | single | You can't reverse fate. |
| 38 | ChouCho | "Aurorise" | ChouCho the BEST | The thing with a direction is not the sky, it is you. |
| 39 | Aimer | "ONE AND LAST" | single | All of these earthbound destinations have been arrived at infinitely, |
| 40 | The Heanacat | "Hane" | The In-Between | already. This why the ones you've never seen still seem more familiar |
| 41 | Lucie,Too | "スーパームーン" | Fool | than incomprehensible, |
| 42 | The Parity Complex | "Gimme a Break" | single | but also how we can tolerate collaborative isolation. |
| 43 | Forever Starts Today | "Thunder & Lightning" | single | At least it is marginally more obvious, in plague years, |
| 44 | Bronnie | "Funeral Song" | single | that we are always almost-submerged in opportunties to think of ways to change. |
| 45 | Fresh | "Morgan & Joanne" | single | Masks neutralize our would-be leaders' teeth; |
| 46 | Bully | "Just For Love" | single | we should insist on their use in all future debates, |
| 47 | Blushing | "Sour Punch" | Sour Punch +1 | and then realize what it is we're implicitly saying about predators and nourishment. |
| 48 | Bliss Fields | "Satisfy" | Satisfy +1 | The most essential disbelief that art requires us to suspend |
| 49 | билборды | "Рисую кровью" | single | is not even the expansive affectation of boundaries, |
| 50 | Gurldoll | "GREAT MISTAKE" | single | or the insupportable conceit of framing, |
| 51 | Alice Glass | "FAIR GAME" | single | but the illlusion of fixed distance, |
| 52 | Kitten | "The End of Sunshine" | Personal Hotspots | the absurd and evocative idea that the light, having traveled millions of miles through the void |
| 53 | Samantha Sánchez | "Fuck It!" | single | would contently consent to stop exactly here, |
| 54 | LAU | "What To Do" | single | would give itself to reflect our obliviousness uncoordination. |
| 55 | Love Ghost | "Tell Me When" | single | We imagine angels, |
| 56 | SOM | "Moment" | Moment +1 | only to cast them in jealous flocks above us, |
| 57 | Coleman Hell | "mountains" | topanga. | as if infinite and immortal possibility measures itself by our rueful tectonic elevations. |
| 58 | demxntia | "oh well" | single | We evaluate the wise by their arrival bearing gifts: |
| 59 | Anthony Sidoti | "Something isn't right" | single | symbolic fortune for our existential doubt, |
| 60 | Scarlxrd | "Bible Black" | single | perfume for our homelessness, |
| 61 | Jack Kays | "SIDEWAYS (with Travis Barker)" | MY FAVORITE NIGHTMARES 4 | ichor to remind us of the mortality we can't ever forget. |
| 62 | Wrest | "Bold" | single | Two thousand years of this story and somehow the moral is still nothing about housing insecurity, |
| 63 | Foreignfox | "This Is Where We're Found" | The Long Jump 5 | or abjectly poor delivery planning, |
| 64 | Pignoise | "Huesos" | Diversión | or the preposterous geocentricity of imagining that distant stars |
| 65 | Despistaos | "Demasiado Tarde" | single | have nothing better to do than orchestrate our underwhelmingly miraculous serendipity. |
| 66 | Alex Ubago | "No te rindas (feat. Andrés Suárez)" | single | The wiser men would have come with doctors, |
| 67 | Alejandro Sanz | "Iba" | Sanz | and a plan for how to not keep having some people treat other people like animals in this tiny fertile part of the planet for ensuing centuries. |
| 68 | Dulce María | "Te Daria Tudo" | single | May as well rewrite it as "They contracted COVID because not enough people wore masks or got shots, |
| 69 | Vanesa Martín | "La fiesta del tutú" | Siete veces sí | and three wise and shimmeringly white men came bearing these reverently unhelpful gifts: |
| 70 | Rosa López | "Si No Te Vuelvo a Ver" | single | laws against an obscure historiographical methodology that very clearly nobody was learning; |
| 71 | K!ngdom | "Ese tema de Mecano" | single | a cynical mechanism for making self-righteousness explicitly mercenary; |
| 72 | KEiiNO | "A New Beginning (feat. Peder Elias)" | single | and a colorful collection of selective travel-bans." |
| 73 | Andriette | "Mis Jou Meer" | single | On second thought, maybe we were better off with myrrh after all. |
| 74 | Reën | "Vakansie op die Platteland" | single | Unlike racism, at least you can immediately tell when you've gotten some on your skin, |
| 75 | Moonchild Sanelly | "Soyenza" | single | and when you've gotten it off again. |
| 76 | Sha Sha | "iPiano (feat. Felo Le Tee)" | iPiano (feat. Felo Le Tee) +1 | The goal is not annointed babies who don't cry, |
| 77 | Dj Obza | "Uthando Lwami" | single | it's babies whose parents don't have to wonder desperately if they are giving their child an era more miserable than their own. |
| 78 | Mzukulu | "Sukuma Mkami Bakubone" | Ivila Laselawini | The babies will cry because this is a reasonable response to finding themselves in a chaos they can't modulate. |
| 79 | Ithwasa Lekhansela | "Angiyona Imali" | Ngiqabuleni | We are justified in crying, too. The chaos abounds. |
| 80 | Inkos'yamagcokama | "King Polite" | One Night Stand | It swirls around and above us, all the guiding stars speeding away out of sight, |
| 81 | Umlabalaba | "Bayeza" | NJENGO ZAHARA | giggling at our pointless attempts to follow them to grace. |
| 82 | Ndlovu Youth Choir | "Easy On Me" | single | There is no gold in this story. |
| 83 | Alex Goot | "Easy On Me" | single | Our highest old disapppointed hopes lie here around our feet, |
| 84 | Savoir Adore | "Dreamers - Geographer Remix" | Dreamers 6 | but universal geography also reaches up, infinitely, and with it our dreams. |
| 85 | Charli XCX | "Good Ones - Perfume Genius Remix" | Good Ones 2 | We hum to ourselves, and then we think "Hmm, what would that sound like if we pitch-shifted it down two octaves?" |
| 86 | Royal & the Serpent | "LUCID DREAMS" | single | We can't give back the love that the dead have left us. |
| 87 | Edge Of Paradise | "Love Reign O'er Me" | single | But we also can't stop yearning. |
| 88 | snow ellet | "Boys Don't Cry" | single | Some crying is fine. Two years is a long time to keep telling a story that seems to only ever have bad characters, |
| 89 | Shaft of Steel | "Torn" | single | even when the characters are us, |
| 90 | White Void | "The Hunt" | single | and everything about them reminds us of a song. |