1 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"hopi" |
our hope |
Our hope takes so many forms. |
2 |
the pullovers |
"当事者" |
よるべないよるへ 6 |
There are moments when I feel like I have run out of it, |
3 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"パーティーはすぐそこ" |
our hope |
and then I notice that I am standing at a window in silence, |
4 |
the pullovers |
"恋は偉大" |
よるべないよるへ 6 |
as if waiting to be reassured by movement. |
5 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"電波の街" |
our hope |
These bands are on the other side of the world, |
6 |
HARU NEMURI |
"Never Let You Go" |
SHUNKA RYOUGEN |
beyond the scope of glass. |
7 |
黒木渚 |
"Kakumei" |
Yosokufunou No Ichibyousaki Mo Dakuryuu Mitaini Aishiteru |
Each second of silence is like the next, |
8 |
SALTY DOG |
"LAST DIVE" |
single |
settling towards inevitability. |
9 |
WAGAMAMA RAKIA |
"GR4VITY G4ME" |
single |
I am waiting for a shimmering aircar to hover past, |
10 |
ZAQ |
"ASEED" |
ASEED +3 |
its windows open and blasting this song. |
11 |
Lila Gray |
"ubaiaiaimaiaisolation" |
single |
The streets here were not designed for aircars, |
12 |
ChouCho |
"reincarnation" |
single |
and only tolerate even rudimentary subway extensions with munificent reluctance. |
13 |
coldrain |
"CALLING" |
single |
The sea is never far below our feet. |
14 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Anhedonia" |
single |
Our fear takes so many forms. |
15 |
Secret Rule |
"One More" |
single |
There are moments when I feel like I have run out of fear, too, though, |
16 |
Future Palace |
"Defeating Gravity" |
Defeating Gravity 5 |
and then I notice that I am standing at a window |
17 |
Red Handed Denial |
"White Water" |
White Water +2 |
or walking over a bridge |
18 |
Daedric |
"Dawnbreaker" |
Dawnbreaker +2 |
or typing sentences about hope, |
19 |
Volturian |
"Bury Me" |
single |
but with headphones, |
20 |
Chaos Magic |
"Emerge" |
single |
and these bands from some other side of the world |
21 |
Phantom Divine |
"The Wraith of the Lake" |
The Wraith of the Lake +3 |
have swarmed grandly into my head. |
22 |
Sorrowful Knight |
"Остара" |
Остара +3 |
Each second of a song invites the next moment to jump |
23 |
The Power of the Pudú |
"Bachametal" |
single |
or spin or crash. |
24 |
Hadadanza |
"¡Bienvenidos al Circo!" |
El Circo de los Muertos |
Every song welcomes or beckons us to something: |
25 |
Faun |
"Caer" |
Pagan |
to a heritage of aspiration and exoneration, |
26 |
Blame Me! |
"In The Shadows" |
single |
to moral authority over cosmology, |
27 |
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter |
"Von Freiheit will Ich singen" |
Wilde Kinder |
to catastrophe as a ritual pyre, |
28 |
Maerzfeld |
"Lange Nicht" |
single |
to time measured only by its potential, |
29 |
Runa Llena |
"Keltoi" |
Aon |
to the scale on which your own movements are vibrations, |
30 |
Jorn |
"Over the Horizon Radar" |
single |
to standing wherever you find the temporary shore. |
31 |
Uniklubi |
"Hehkuvia kipinöitä" |
single |
From here you can see Hämeenkyrö |
32 |
Horizon Ignited |
"Servant" |
Servant +2 |
if you remember to see by listening. |
33 |
Blut Aus Nord |
"Tales Of The Old Dreamer" |
single |
Our old dreams were always like this: |
34 |
Rotting Christ |
"Holy Mountain" |
single |
vantage fables |
35 |
Septicflesh |
"A Desert Throne" |
A Desert Throne +2 |
of subjective kingdoms |
36 |
Khold |
"Apostel" |
single |
from which we awaken evangelically, |
37 |
Einvigi |
"Yö Kulje Kanssani" |
Yö Kulje Kanssani |
and then try to remember that the first heretics we need to convert |
38 |
White Ward |
"Leviathan" |
single |
are the ones we invented to admonish us for our pride. |
39 |
FREJA |
"Scattered Shields" |
Tides |
We are made of water and sky. |
40 |
Cisza |
"Withered, Blackened Heart" |
single |
Of course we mistake ourselves for gods. |
41 |
Te Ruki |
"Huero a Tamaera" |
Marako Te Ruki |
The actual gods are standing at windows in silence, |
42 |
Escaping Aghartha |
"Consuming Drought" |
Croak |
waiting for us to develop efficient aircars |
43 |
Helioss |
"La chute du tyran" |
Contre ma lumière |
so they can justify not drowning us |
44 |
Reverorum ib Malacht |
"1a10" |
Vacuum. The mystery of faith. We proclaim your death oh Lord, and profess your resurrection, until you come again. Förlåtelse och Levitation. |
in our own incomprehensible seas. |
45 |
Veil Of Maya |
"Synthwave Vegan" |
single |
We debate their criteria as a symbolic gesture of respect, |
46 |
The HAARP Machine |
"Forsaken" |
single |
but they knew before we did that they were only now ever going to watch |
47 |
Luminous Vault |
"Ancient North" |
single |
and listen from afar. |
48 |
Scarlxrd |
"Newtxpscxre" |
Atv2. Act II: Severance. 3 |
Our measurement of our progress takes so many forms, |
49 |
ONI INC. |
"Me, My Demons & I" |
single |
but in every one of them these disasters are tentative masterpieces |
50 |
nothing,nowhere. |
"MEMORY_FRACTURE" |
single |
in fragmentary draft, |
51 |
Jackie Platinum |
"overdose on love" |
single |
over- or underguessed, |
52 |
Drippin So Pretty |
"Fingertips" |
single |
counting on deft edits |
53 |
Hellbent |
"Not Enough Bees" |
Primitive Hits |
to take them from diagnostic |
54 |
Bob Vylan |
"Turn Off The Radio" |
Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life |
to liberating. |
55 |
Dragon Ash |
"Tiny World" |
single |
These bands are only just around the curve of a small planet, |
56 |
ZERO[Hz] |
"Akkishourai" |
single |
standing around their aircars arguing over who gets to drive |
57 |
NOILION |
"GLOW" |
3 4 |
and who gets to pick the music. |
58 |
Tenille Townes |
"Same Road Home" |
Masquerades |
Soon enough they will drive past this window, every window, |
59 |
Ha*Ash |
"Mejor Que Te Acostumbres" |
single |
a shimmering deafening endless unavoidable parade. |
60 |
Bely Basarte |
"No es tu culpa." |
single |
Our search for hope takes so many forms: |
61 |
Mafalda |
"para mis padres" |
single |
reveries, |
62 |
Yoly Saa |
"Expectativas" |
A golpes de fe |
journeys, |
63 |
Rosanacano |
"Árbolesdeciudad" |
Árbolesdeciudad |
systems for finding equilibria between community and solace, |
64 |
Jordan Sweeto |
"Catch a Rocket" |
single |
pages and pages of drawings of shimmering aircars, |
65 |
iamamiwhoami |
"I Tenacious" |
single |
a single journal-entry that says "broken, but silent no more". |
66 |
POT |
"THE SOOTHING" |
single |
Every impetuous spark of joy |
67 |
LEXXE |
"Your Mona Lisa" |
single |
lights another fragile despair on fire. |
68 |
Eliza & The Delusionals |
"Bed Song" |
Bed Song 6 |
Standing by a window, seemingly silent, |
69 |
Tenille Townes |
"Shared Walls (feat. BRELAND)" |
Masquerades |
you are some passing dreamer's next dream. |
70 |
Ethel Cain |
"American Teenager" |
single |
Earbuds are tiny now, and yours are black. From the street, through the glass, maybe they can't tell you have them on. |
71 |
Mel Bryant & the Mercy Makers |
"Relatively Good" |
single |
Outside the light is more decisive, and theirs are a pale blue. |
72 |
Luukas Oja |
"Tänään ja vuoden kuluttua" |
Lähdinkö liian varhain |
From here you can see Joensuu, |
73 |
Nectar |
"Scab" |
Scab +2 |
but all inland cities are the same |
74 |
Florence + The Machine |
"Free" |
single |
to the sea. |
75 |
Xenia |
"Y si no hay nada" |
Ruido-0 |
Every song we write or hear |
76 |
Resplandor |
"Adore" |
Tristeza |
is an uncertain, helpless, brave draft of an anthem of what we will eventually have survived. |
77 |
The Earth Earth |
"drapes" |
THE EARTH EARTH |
Special cloth and normal glass intervene in our breath |
78 |
Death Bells |
"Lifespring" |
single |
only long enough to let despair settle |
79 |
Editors |
"Heart Attack" |
Heart Attack +1 |
to some point below our center of gravity |
80 |
The Wonder Years |
"Oldest Daughter" |
single |
where it can make us more stable. |
81 |
Koethe |
"Future World" |
single |
The aircars aren't quite ready, |
82 |
Mashudu Nematoka |
"Tsho Salaho Yo Bvuma" |
single |
but they were only ever going to be a way to carry these songs around and play them for each other, |
83 |
Abidoza |
"Thina Sobabili" |
single |
and we've known how to do that for a forever |
84 |
AmaSiblings |
"Ungithanda Njalo" |
single |
that starts now. |
85 |
Skhenqe Biyela |
"Front Seat" |
Front Seat +1 |
Our unsilences take so many serene and triumphant forms: |
86 |
Straatligkinders |
"Kakofonie" |
single |
egregious and restorative, |
87 |
Brendan Peyper |
"Meisies Soos Jy" |
single |
normative and inclusive, |
88 |
Jo Black |
"Staan Vas" |
single |
resolved and crumbling. |
89 |
Vincent Gordon |
"Die Onbekende" |
single |
As long as you are willing to not try to circumscribe the whole currently unknown, |
90 |
Dan Mangan |
"In Your Corner (For Scott Hutchison)" |
single |
and be human for another painful and uneasy day, |
91 |
MONO |
"Kioku" |
single |
the next thing you say or imagine can bring someone to a place of momentary peace, |
92 |
DJ Kuroneko |
"sunken" |
single |
of vivid immersion, |
93 |
PUTOCHINOMARICÓN |
"AliExpréss" |
JÁJÁ ÉQÚÍSDÉ (Distopía Aburrida) |
of productive dissatisfaction. |
94 |
HARU NEMURI |
"Who the fuck is burning the forest?" |
SHUNKA RYOUGEN |
We have some mundane collective tasks we need to accomplish, |
95 |
Tony Njoku |
"Rhododendrons" |
single |
and songs, like any other breaths, can sometimes feel like denial or obliviousness, |
96 |
Lili Refrain |
"Kokyu" |
Mana |
but breath, like any other song, requires practice. |
97 |
Claire Rousay |
"it feels foolish to care" |
everything perfect is already here |
This is how it will sound when it's perfect: |
98 |
Zola Jesus |
"Desire" |
Desire +1 |
broken and undaunted, |
99 |
Blackhaine |
"Stained Materials" |
Stained Materials +1 |
mesmerized by resurrection while still alive, |
100 |
Filthy Gears |
"Saved Soul" |
Connections |
patiently reassembled. |
101 |
Bob Vylan |
"Wicked & Bad" |
Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life |
Our institutions and intuitions are equally premature, |
102 |
Brass Against |
"Immigrant Song" |
single |
but we move among and between them in the hope that their flaws will be dispersed |
103 |
Blinding Sunrise |
"Kyouran Hey Kids!!" |
single |
and their inspirations replicated, |
104 |
Leonard Cohen |
"Hallelujah" |
single |
as tragedy and farce in inextricable combination, |
105 |
Dash Berlin |
"Waiting (Ultra Edit) - Extended Mix" |
Waiting (Ultra Edit) 2 |
until the pointlessly reshimmerized new versions blasting out of the passing aircars are just as perfect as you will now remember them. |