1 |
Steg G |
"Twilight" |
Surface Pressure |
Yes to apocalyptic hip hop invocations of Gaia |
2 |
Donovan Woods |
"Leave When You Go" |
Big Hurt Boy 6 |
and perfect quiet wonder in moments of simple unexpected hope. |
3 |
Blut Aus Nord |
"That Cannot Be Dreamed" |
single |
Yes to the sound of the universe bending sinuously under pressure |
4 |
Mroh |
"Truth" |
single |
and us dancing on its surfaces as if it moves at our whim. |
5 |
Agathodaimon |
"La Haine" |
The Seven |
We can't prove that it doesn't, |
6 |
Night Crowned |
"Born of the Flickering" |
Rebirth of the Old 4 |
which is the worst possible reason to believe anything. |
7 |
Aara |
"Das Dunkel der Welt" |
single |
We are made of darkness, |
8 |
Rise to the Sky |
"Every Day, A Funeral" |
single |
molded into brief forms |
9 |
Nanna Barslev |
"Runebundet" |
Lysbærer |
already only half-remembered before they are even complete. |
10 |
Vansind |
"Håbet Er Sort" |
single |
Yes to old legends as gifts to new lexicons |
11 |
Darkher |
"Love's Sudden Death - Single Version" |
single |
and wisdom wrung from loss. |
12 |
Annicke Shireen |
"Insatiable" |
Demonette 3 |
Yes to confessions that defy schematization |
13 |
Moonlight Haze |
"The Nothing" |
Animus |
and covenants that define their fond fields. |
14 |
Metalite |
"Full Moon" |
single |
Yes to viridian tendrils |
15 |
Battle Beast |
"The Lightbringer" |
single |
reaching between glittering nightskies and fragments of dawn. |
16 |
Brothers of Metal |
"The Other Son of Odin" |
single |
The heavy crown of awesomeness |
17 |
SheWolf |
"The One You Feed" |
Shewolf |
has rolled into a dusty space we cannot retrieve it from |
18 |
Without Warning |
"Insanity" |
single |
without moving the throne |
19 |
Imperial Age |
"The Way is The Aim" |
single |
temporarily aside. |
20 |
Anchor Thought |
"In The Earth" |
single |
We are precluded from some necessary practical steps |
21 |
Dreamtale |
"The Glory" |
single |
by the reasonable suspicion that unearned dignity set even momentarily aside |
22 |
Moonlight Haze |
"Midnight Haze" |
Animus |
cannot merely be reclaimed. |
23 |
Sündenrausch |
"Red Sun" |
Original Sin |
Real-word jeopardy, unlike the symbolic unrepeatable versions, |
24 |
Manigance |
"Sang froid" |
Le bal des ombres |
resets majestically overnight. |
25 |
Dynazty |
"Yours" |
single |
The morning gives you back the possibility of losing the lost again, |
26 |
Shining Black |
"Time Heals, They Say" |
Postcards from the End of the World |
with or without the formality of restoration. |
27 |
Blind Guardian |
"Secrets Of The American Gods - Single Edit" |
single |
We choose obscure sigils |
28 |
ARLEQUIN |
"Libra" |
single |
as if they will escape the notice of fate, |
29 |
CROSS VEIN |
"Silver lining" |
single |
but fate is not a lookout archer |
30 |
INUWASI |
"Strings Wars" |
tenbin 6 |
who will turn, if we wait long enough, |
31 |
塞壬唱片-MSR |
"Eternal Flame" |
Eternal Flame +1 |
at what might be the sound of an owl |
32 |
Momo Asakura |
"Skyreach" |
シャッフル -Bright 3 Waves- |
landing silently in the besieged city behind their guard. |
33 |
BLACKNAZARENE |
"URGE" |
URGE +2 |
Yes to watching each other until we forget what we waiting for |
34 |
AIBECK |
"Airennsyoku" |
Airennsyoku +1 |
in order to make room in our hearts to remember tiny mesmerizing movements. |
35 |
mulmeyun |
"Love is War" |
single |
Yes to myopic metaphors |
36 |
Cö Shu Nie |
"BED CHUTE!!" |
Flos Ex Machina |
that come upon us softly in fog, |
37 |
chilldspot |
"Your Trip" |
single |
in moments when the walls of this obdurately specific square stand back |
38 |
moumoon |
"Mirai Yo, Watashi Wo Oikakero" |
single |
and allow us to be everywhere at once. |
39 |
シバノソウ |
"閃光のような人" |
これから 6 |
Yes to every city day as a flashmob, militantly unarmed. |
40 |
Yuu Miyashita |
"Yuuka" |
Mitsuketa Tobira wa |
Yes to glass, as much for its fragility as despite. |
41 |
Senses |
"lost" |
single |
Yes to maplessness |
42 |
Yandere |
"between us" |
single |
as a form of faith in contact. |
43 |
Polygon Cove |
"Bring me back" |
Dawn2Dusk |
We need not leave each other's skin. |
44 |
Lil Darkie |
"Scammin'" |
single |
It all feels decided |
45 |
Rivilin |
"Live a Liar" |
single |
because decisiveness is the temptation which which they sell us things: |
46 |
Love Ghost |
"November" |
single |
cabinets with the unique airflow required for the proper display of regret; |
47 |
Eredaze |
"We Made It" |
single |
tablets that promise you this feeling again and again |
48 |
Donovan Woods |
"A Picture of Us Smiling at a Party 5 Years Ago" |
Big Hurt Boy 6 |
through proprietary trace elements added inertly to how you already remember yourself; |
49 |
Riley Pearce |
"Nostalgia" |
Nostalgia +2 |
aesthetic apps that virtualize and vaporize your own secretions; |
50 |
TK from Ling tosite sigure |
"As long as I love" |
As long as I love / Scratch 4 |
vicarious calm. |
51 |
Dvicio |
"ARTE" |
single |
Every day a city lasts |
52 |
La Fuga |
"Demasiado Tarde" |
single |
after its speculative formation |
53 |
Ronnie Atkins |
"I've Hurt Myself (By Hurting You)" |
Make It Count |
earns it the further right to continue. |
54 |
Treat |
"Carolina Reaper" |
single |
The reaper has no more jurisdiction in any Georgia's neighbor's neighbor |
55 |
El Capitán Elefante |
"El Planeta De Los Precipicios" |
single |
than on any as-yet-uncolonized world. |
56 |
Veintiuno |
"La Ruina" |
single |
Yes to leaps of faith, the wind in our mouths, the smell of no smoke. |
57 |
MELIFLUO |
"Ahora Me Toca a Mí" |
single |
Yes to all of our turns at joy at once, |
58 |
María Villalón |
"Despierta, Corazón" |
single |
because joy is a chorus. |
59 |
Ha*Ash |
"Lo Que un Hombre Debería Saber" |
single |
I'm never sorry when another voice joins, |
60 |
Versilia |
"La Lluvia sobre el Mar" |
single |
another instrument, another astonishing sound that |
61 |
Maija Vilkkumaa |
"1973" |
single |
as far as I knew |
62 |
Ilari Hämäläinen |
"Se Ei Voi" |
single |
wasn't there a moment earlier. |
63 |
Veronica Maggio |
"070-xxxx xxx" |
Höghusdrömmar/070-xxxx xxx 2 |
I'm wrong, of course I'm wrong. |
64 |
Irene-Louise Van Wyk |
"Maak 'n Plan" |
single |
We do not discover each other, |
65 |
Wikus Botma |
"Proe Soos Nog" |
single |
we meet. |
66 |
Marmi |
"Estaba Claro" |
single |
Yes to murmuring this effusively |
67 |
SOLEDAD VÉLEZ |
"YA SÉ" |
single |
in badly and perfectly chosen languages. |
68 |
MUNA |
"Anything But Me" |
Anything But Me +1 |
Yes to walking away |
69 |
Yumi Zouma |
"Astral Projection" |
Present Tense |
to find brighter and more merciless light. |
70 |
VUKOVI |
"LASSO" |
LASSO +3 |
Yes to menace as a ward |
71 |
Yours Truly |
"Lights On" |
Lights On +1 |
against expedient mystery. |
72 |
Principe Valiente |
"Barricades" |
Barricades |
Only the disputed borders will remain, |
73 |
don't get lemon |
"Purple Hour Kingdom" |
Purple Hour Kingdom +2 |
and then none. |
74 |
Sundara Karma |
"All These Dreams" |
All These Dreams +2 |
These wars fought with tanks will be won by phone calls home, |
75 |
The Ninth Wave |
"Heron on the Water" |
Heavy Like a Headache |
by humanity in the face of artillery, |
76 |
Yr Oria |
"Tair Gwaith" |
Galw Allan 6 |
by responding to your imperial delusions |
77 |
Fatherson |
"Love For Air" |
Love For Air 6 |
with the truth that anywhere you draw your lines |
78 |
The Wedding Present |
"Go Go Go" |
Go Go Go +1 |
describes only your secret fear. |
79 |
DYLYN |
"Liar" |
Liar +2 |
Yes to no to tyrants. |
80 |
Sasha Alex Sloan |
"WTF" |
single |
Yes to doubt |
81 |
Skunk Anansie |
"Can't Take You Anywhere" |
Can't Take You Anywhere +1 |
over a conqueror's imbecilic certainty. |
82 |
Elaine |
"Shine" |
single |
Yes to radiance resonantly multiplied. |
83 |
David Jones David |
"Tell Me" |
single |
Yes to stories, written and unwritten. |
84 |
Praiz |
"New" |
Reckless |
Yes to quiet on all fronts. |
85 |
Brenden Praise |
"Misava" |
MISAVA 4 |
You cannot levy wholeness with warfare, |
86 |
Ithwasa Lekhansela |
"Kawungondli" |
single |
because all you gain by destroying a place is more emptiness |
87 |
Menzi |
"Eshu Wesokalami" |
Intencane 5 |
like the emptiness you already have. |
88 |
Ecko Bazz |
"Twala" |
Mmaso |
Yes to Ukraine and Uganda and Uruguay and unions formed by application instead of annex, |
89 |
Principe Valiente |
"Never Change" |
Barricades |
but also difficultly yes to how our fear of this grace is just as definitive and indelible. |
90 |
Jóhann Jóhannsson |
"One is True" |
Drone Mass |
We are the ones who claim to serve omnipresence |
91 |
Caprice |
"Northern Light, Pt. 3" |
Northern Lights 3 |
and then collect perfectly scattered stones into the scarce forced shapes of churches. |
92 |
Lydia Ainsworth |
"Amaryllis - Reimagined" |
single |
We assign allegiant oligarchy |
93 |
Steg G |
"No Future" |
Surface Pressure |
to the palest flowers in the track of the most violent storm. |
94 |
Mipso |
"Call Your Girlfriend" |
single |
It's different when we fight, too. Worse. We shouldn't need a war to explain peace. |
95 |
ADONA |
"Roam" |
single |
You see a wilderness. The trip begins. |
96 |
First to Eleven |
"Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" |
single |
It isn't that the things you've been warned against aren't real, |
97 |
Vega |
"Animal - Bonus Track" |
Anarchy and Unity |
it's that they're glorious even when they're stupid, especially when they're consciously and unselfconsciously stupid, |
98 |
The Animal In Me |
"Sorry Not Sorry" |
single |
when we feel that same stupidity in our own blood. |