1 |
Nocturna |
"Daughters of the Night" |
single |
It will be years before we understand everything that we lost to these slow-motion plague times, |
2 |
Solarus |
"Waking Mind" |
A Dance With Tragedy |
but those years, like the plague years themselves, |
3 |
The Artificials |
"Carrier" |
single |
will be filled with undaunted and unsilenced music. |
4 |
Oligarkh |
"Я вернусь" |
single |
This can sound like defiance |
5 |
Bagira |
"Амнезия X" |
single |
or divinity, |
6 |
The Birthday Massacre |
"Dreams of You" |
single |
but it is neither of these. |
7 |
AGNIS |
"Sol Invictus" |
single |
Our songs survive. |
8 |
Rebecca Black |
"Read My Mind" |
single |
We succumb: |
9 |
Dessa |
"I Already Like You" |
IDES |
to literal or mordantly metaphorical contagions, |
10 |
Bronnie |
"Love Letters & Hate Mail" |
Love Letters & Hate Mail EP 6 |
to myopic infighting among the profoundly alike, |
11 |
Best Coast |
"Leading" |
single |
to lost and losing marches, |
12 |
Makthaverskan |
"This Time" |
För Allting |
to misidentifications of moments, |
13 |
Team Dresch |
"St. Ides Heaven" |
single |
to the uplifting delusion that fragility turns to resolution |
14 |
Black Dresses |
"We Are Children Of The Light" |
single |
through merely faith or time. |
15 |
AYDEED |
"SHININ" |
IMPORT 3 |
The farther we fall, the more convinced we become that we will never land. |
16 |
Cariño |
"Si Quieres" |
single |
The ground plays its role, |
17 |
Dulce María |
"Amigos con derechos" |
single |
receiving us with equal eagerness in any state of denial |
18 |
Pastora Soler |
"Que hablen de mí" |
single |
or orientation of impact, |
19 |
Merche |
"Somos Unos Valientes" |
single |
whatever we are singing as we return |
20 |
Da-iCE |
"Promise - 『仮面ライダー ビヨンド・ジェネレーションズ』主題歌" |
single |
to everything we ever thought we had left. |
21 |
B.O.L.T |
"Reborn" |
More Fantastic 4 |
Paleontology lingers in plaintive infancy |
22 |
AIBECK |
"STEPPER" |
STEPPER +1 |
until it learns how to rehear the sauran anthems: |
23 |
Quubi |
"Ragnarok" |
single |
of the comet's approach, |
24 |
IBUKI |
"See You Again" |
Storm of Emotion |
of the long inevitability of some comet's approach, |
25 |
OCTAVIAGRACE |
"アザーブルー" |
single |
of the impossibility and implications of comets, |
26 |
ELFENSJóN |
"WIEGENLIED" |
EPHEMERA |
of love in an age of raining comets |
27 |
CANDY GO!GO! |
"Brave Venus" |
single |
or an age of starlit drought. |
28 |
Roselia |
"Sprechchor" |
single |
We imagine ourselves connected by breath, |
29 |
FLOW |
"優勝" |
DICE (Complete Edition) |
by air, |
30 |
anewhite |
"チョコレート・ハートレイト" |
single |
but the air is not here to pass briefly through us, |
31 |
Nana Mizuki |
"Red Breeze" |
single |
and does not measure its own economy by our loaned vibrations. |
32 |
Kiyoshi |
"Glorious Days" |
Kiyoshi6 |
These glorious and miserable days alike |
33 |
Regal Lily |
"惑星トラッシュ" |
single |
are lines and values we scuff fleetingly onto the surface |
34 |
GO TO THE BEDS |
"merry bad end" |
G⇔P 6 |
we misconstrue as stage. |
35 |
NEMOPHILA |
"鬼灯" |
REVIVE |
A year ends; |
36 |
situasion |
"The report about darkness" |
I would prefer not to 4 |
the planet grinds to a dutiful procedural halt, |
37 |
Cyan Kicks |
"Died Enough For You" |
single |
awaiting word from the committee deliberating over the proposed |
38 |
Carmilla |
"Lightbringer" |
single |
continuance of time. |
39 |
The Neptune Power Federation |
"My Precious One" |
single |
If you imagine that the future is paid for by our faith, |
40 |
Parasyche |
"Rebelión" |
Hijos De La Violencia |
then it makes sense that inertia can incur debt, |
41 |
Project Renegade |
"The Fix Is In" |
single |
and that we can fight over whether we will or will not default on revolutions |
42 |
Fólkvangr |
"Winter Nights" |
single |
long since spun. |
43 |
Harpyie |
"Angst im Wald" |
single |
Power fantasies aspire to cruelty |
44 |
Walg |
"Verlossing" |
single |
as a desperate and futile attempt to distract from ridiculousness. |
45 |
Wolftopia |
"The Last Embrace of the Mother" |
Ways of the Pack |
We imagine ourselves wolves: |
46 |
Asarhaddon |
"Haginthorn I" |
Haginthorn 2 |
dead or ancient by our teens |
47 |
Celeste |
"De tes yeux bleus perlés" |
De tes yeux bleus perlés +1 |
if lucky enough to not have been eaten by bears. |
48 |
Shape Of Despair |
"Dissolution" |
single |
All of our dancing is done with tears in our eyes: |
49 |
Funeral Mist |
"Twilight of the Flesh" |
Deiform |
liquid glimmers of darkness |
50 |
Bjarm |
"In the Deepest Abyss" |
Carved from Dust |
attributing depth to our thin surfaces |
51 |
Teramaze |
"Battle" |
single |
as if balrogs can be flung into endless plummet |
52 |
Memory Garden |
"Shallow Waters" |
1349 |
instead of landing, indignantly, in our neighbor's pool. |
53 |
Chronosfear |
"Beyond" |
single |
We inhale to shout, |
54 |
eon |
"La Bala Que Grabé en Tu Nombre" |
single |
and the world flows effortlessly through us, |
55 |
Lee McKinney |
"Crystal Song" |
Crystal Song +1 |
its atmospheric joys equally undiminished by our bodies |
56 |
Magnum |
"No Steppin' Stones" |
single |
or our antibodies. |
57 |
GIANT |
"Never Die Young" |
single |
A cycle ends, maybe in a way we call a breath or a year, |
58 |
Edge Of Forever |
"Get up on Your Feet Again" |
single |
and begins again. |
59 |
The Ferrymen |
"The Last Wave" |
single |
We imagine this as a reversal, |
60 |
Война Осколков |
"Новая Глава: В начале пути" |
single |
and assign it according potential for transformative renewal. |
61 |
ARTiCLEAR |
"Tagatame no New World" |
Kagen no Tsukuyomi 6 |
Maybe now we can have things we once so loudly wanted, |
62 |
戮-Riku- |
"アマツカツバサ" |
アマツカツバサ +1 |
but have quietly poured into reservoirs of neglect: |
63 |
Dani Fernández |
"Dile a los demás" |
single |
a universal language, |
64 |
CVLTE |
"eat acid, see god. (feat. Paledusk)" |
HEDONIST 5 |
the ends of loneliness and want |
65 |
a flood of circle |
"北極星のメロディー" |
single |
as if one of these is the cause of the other, |
66 |
moreru |
"kireta otaku" |
single |
a method for coalescing cacophony into bliss |
67 |
Eredaze |
"Till i Find" |
single |
as if these two states can be distinguished, |
68 |
Fatherson |
"Honest To God" |
Honest To God +2 |
a faith stronger than self-doubt |
69 |
Johnny Marr |
"Hideaway Girl" |
Fever Dreams Pt. 2 4 |
as if we only vanish through our own error. |
70 |
James Colt |
"S.O.S." |
single |
The planet spins, offering us a moral of continuity, |
71 |
AIRFLIP |
"Rain" |
RED |
and we shout and jump in turn, obliviously, |
72 |
Orko |
"Lightfighter" |
single |
triumphantly proud of our ability to coordinate a human wave, |
73 |
Anthem for Maria |
"Hopia" |
single |
once a year, |
74 |
Zandimaz |
"Umgqibelo" |
single |
across our arbitrarily self-righteous time-zones. |
75 |
Nomfundo Moh |
"Nginjena" |
single |
And yet, this isn't wrong. |
76 |
Lizwi |
"Abalam'Bam" |
single |
At least we finally figured out that there are no edges, |
77 |
Mashudu Nematoka |
"Ni a Mu Divha Na" |
Makoti O Swika Nga Tshopa |
and that we cannot walk to the edge of the world |
78 |
Imfezemnyama |
"Bazonya" |
UHLANYA NGEMPELA |
and throw away our mistakes. |
79 |
Gadla Nxumalo |
"Bagqokikhindi" |
Inkosi Yezinkomo |
In this same way, it accomplishes nothing to fire them into the sun, |
80 |
Govozile |
"Ngibuya la engithanda khona" |
Osedakiwe akahambe 2 |
or to imagine that they will all be seen differently in new light on the moon or Mars or heaven. |
81 |
Mlethwa Majola |
"Vumani" |
single |
We go to look upon the face of god, |
82 |
Ntencane |
"Khulula Inhliziyo" |
Incane Lembobo |
and we find an old guy wearing his mask below his nose. |
83 |
uNgiga |
"Ama 2000" |
Ses'deshile |
We go to open our mouths to tell him-- |
84 |
Khotha |
"KHULUMA GCWENSA" |
UDUMO LWAMANGA |
what? that justice escapes from his nostrils |
85 |
Falabo |
"Inkani" |
iSuprise |
in bright invisible tendrils |
86 |
Umdumazi |
"Buya" |
Uzizw'unjani? |
that he should want to conserve? |
87 |
Imfezemnyama |
"Yima ngihlafune" |
UHLANYA NGEMPELA |
that plagues call uncomfortable attention to the frequency with which promised ends |
88 |
Die Heuwels Fantasties |
"Victoriabaai" |
single |
expire more than transpire? |
89 |
✝✝✝ (Crosses) |
"Goodbye Horses" |
single |
that we tried stipulating a hero without our limitations |
90 |
Schwarzer Engel |
"Ewig Leben" |
single |
as if the immortal could offer any guidance for how to unbind bounded lives? |
91 |
Philipp Burger |
"Die Welt und ich" |
Kontrollierte Anarchie |
All of that is true, and none of it is helpful. |
92 |
Dronny Darko |
"Xanthe Terra" |
Quasi |
Pull up your mask. You are responsible for how you change the air, |
93 |
Funeral Mist |
"Deiform" |
Deiform |
not in some eventual abtract reckoning |
94 |
Dan Bull |
"Humankind" |
single |
but in every mundane and ordinary moment, |
95 |
Alex Goot |
"Unwritten" |
single |
in delectable poisons you can almost taste, |
96 |
Jewel |
"What's Going On" |
Queen of Hearts |
in the liminal and indefensible moments before sleep, |
97 |
First to Eleven |
"Hail to the King" |
single |
in the genuflections you implicitly catalog. |
98 |
Lauren Babic |
"Erase Me" |
single |
It will take us years to recover from this, |
99 |
Danielle Durack |
"Dancing Queen" |
single |
but they aren't different years we somehow weren't otherwise going to have, |
100 |
RIVETHEAD |
"Dancing Queen" |
single |
conclusively chastened by pedagogical comets, |
101 |
The Big Deal |
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" |
single |
celestially shadowless. |
102 |
Bagira |
"Paranoid (Буря мглою небо кроет)" |
Covered in Metal |
The years and comets don't change. They don't bring us deliverance. Until one day they do, and we watch it burn up in the atmosphere as it descends, and if there's little enough of it left by the time it hits us, we get to sing some more. |