1 |
Lovejoy |
"Knee Deep at ATP" |
single |
Do not be embarrassed by your friends, |
2 |
Helen Love |
"Billy Liar" |
single |
or the way you find them, |
3 |
Falconshield |
"This Is War 7" |
This Is War 7 +1 |
or the depths or breadths of your shared secret obsessions. |
4 |
Victorian Death Photos |
"Home" |
single |
You have love, |
5 |
Revel in Romance |
"Keep You" |
single |
which can be made out of stubbornness |
6 |
Cinnamun Beloved |
"The Crow" |
single |
and labyrinthine fanfics or marshaled armies, |
7 |
Magica |
"Show Me a Sign" |
single |
as readily as any other magic. |
8 |
Nekonomicon |
"Song of Warmth" |
single |
Whatever connects you |
9 |
Machinae Supremacy |
"We Are The Ones Who Will Change The World" |
single |
makes you more human. |
10 |
yumegiwa last girl |
"SYSTEMATIC ROMANCE" |
SYSTEMATIC ROMANCE / KATACHI 2 |
Imaginary devotion builds real temples, |
11 |
PLANCK STARS |
"Now I can finally talk to you" |
STAY FUCKIN' GOLD |
and time turns religion into mythology, |
12 |
MELiSSA |
"Dances with Wolves" |
single |
but sacral architecture first into architecture, |
13 |
PEDRO |
"さすらひ" |
single |
and then heritage, |
14 |
角巻わため |
"おはようのうた" |
わためのうた vol.2 |
and then secular rapture. |
15 |
#ジューロック |
"ベガアルタイル" |
single |
We have built noble cities on sand, |
16 |
眩暈SIREN |
"23:59" |
不可逆的な命の肖像 / 蒼彩 3 |
and systems of redemption on gyroscopic platforms |
17 |
Aimi |
"LIGHTS" |
single |
floated speculatively upon mirageseas. |
18 |
THE ORCHESTRA TOKYO |
"Checkmate" |
THE ORCHESTRA TOKYO III 5 |
Maybe we have only really mastered this one craft: |
19 |
Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai |
"Next Stage" |
夢幻パラレルコード |
of lost-wax casting in which the wax is belief, |
20 |
UP UP GIRLS kakko KARI |
"アルストロメリア" |
single |
and time is heat, |
21 |
LAMP IN TERREN |
"Dreams - Romantic Egoist Ver." |
Romantic Egoist |
and we see a thousand implied shapes in every real one |
22 |
ever youth |
"あいの唄" |
single |
we dig out of the sites of whatever we think we're building next. |
23 |
Delacroix |
"OBSESSED" |
OBSESSED +1 |
We make mistakes, |
24 |
ヒッチコック |
"『鰐』" |
single |
trivially forgivable when they are new, |
25 |
Sleepers' Guilt |
"One Last Shiver" |
single |
and then age them to impervious imperfection, |
26 |
Ştiu Nu Ştiu |
"Styx" |
single |
set them backlit on inaccessible horizons, |
27 |
The Present Moment |
"LIFE-LINE" |
single |
and codify their observational cults. |
28 |
Moongazer |
"The pain that never leaves...(Pt. 1)" |
The pain that never leaves... 2 |
But every legend of seeking is inherently and equally epic; |
29 |
Ancalagon |
"Gyges from River North (Sem Sombra)" |
Black Samba, Part II: Songs from the Notochord 3 |
every map tells a story in which distance has purpose; |
30 |
Hadal Maw |
"Fetishize Consumption" |
Oblique Order 4 |
every disillusionment dissolves a piece of foundational infrastructure |
31 |
Primalfrost |
"Bringer Of Immensity" |
Lost Elegies |
and thus exposes its internal mechanism. |
32 |
Distress of Ruin |
"Searching the Architect" |
single |
We fear discovering the ways in which our clothes are costumes, |
33 |
Feuerschwanz |
"Ultima Nocte" |
Memento Mori |
but so too already are our skins, |
34 |
Horn |
"Alpenrekorder" |
Alpenrekorder +1 |
our paths, |
35 |
Aythis |
"When Your Ghost Wanders - Winter Edit" |
single |
their defiant margins, |
36 |
Earth7 |
"On the Sea and In the Sky" |
single |
the lines between the layers of earth |
37 |
YARuGA |
"Шаман" |
single |
and between metaphor |
38 |
Skugga |
"GALDR" |
single |
and triumph. |
39 |
rouri404 |
"nothing" |
single |
We sit in quiet glades, carrying age-smoothed dowsing rods or phones limned with the finest fractures. |
40 |
Delaney |
"Love" |
single |
We have precious souvenirs from places we have never been. |
41 |
The Sun |
"Mi mejor defecto" |
single |
We have flaws we have learned to regard as definitional qualities, |
42 |
Notre Dame |
"Eldorado" |
Eldorado +1 |
and cities we have built around the sources we have assigned them. |
43 |
Fourteen Nights At Sea |
"Artefacts" |
Artefacts / Black Maps 2 |
We are on the fastest and only route, despite normal and eternal traffic. |
44 |
Hereafter |
"Resolution" |
single |
Do not be afraid to stop at the end, |
45 |
Animal Ghosts |
"You" |
Wake 6 |
wherever it finds you, focused in whatever reverie of blur. |
46 |
Aoife O'Donovan |
"B61" |
B61 +3 |
Directions are not a prescriptive efficiency for reaching closure, |
47 |
Carolyn Miller |
"Something Right (About a Wrong Turn)" |
Thank You 3 |
but the story of how you got to exactly where you momentarily are, |
48 |
Shiru wa GP |
"Gutukanirwo" |
single |
marked with a photograph or a misattributed memory in a borrowed song. |
49 |
Elleran Elvis |
"Sistem" |
single |
The only difference between diversion and destination is time: |
50 |
Escape The Day |
"2 B With U - Demo Version" |
Demo Collection #2 6 |
for disentangling accreted necessity from orignal joy; |
51 |
Sorrowful Knight |
"Son's of Odin - Remastered" |
Through Pain and Glory |
for looking back on perilous surfaces after heroic transit; |
52 |
Halocene |
"We Will Rock You" |
single |
for finding someone who can accept your unachievable peace as stipulated context; |
53 |
First to Eleven |
"Immigrant Song" |
single |
for rebuilding cryptic and relentless ruins until we realize that they have always been our homes. |