1 |
Mournful Congregation |
"Mountainous Shadows, Cast Through Time" |
The Exuviae of Gods - Part 1 |
We built churches in our own image, |
2 |
Foraoisí gan Iniúchadh |
"The Kingdom Will Die" |
single |
even before we realized our gods were images of ourselves, |
3 |
Liminal Shroud |
"Hypoxic" |
single |
and thus reverence is inevitably rehabilitated as ornate heresy. |
4 |
Temple of Void |
"The Transcending Horror" |
The Transcending Horror +2 |
Our enemies will preserve our gifts, |
5 |
Black Void |
"Tenebrism of Life" |
Antithesis |
every one but the last. |
6 |
Khold |
"I Demonens Bok" |
I Demonens Bok +1 |
War is the process power uses |
7 |
Saor |
"Beyond the Wall" |
single |
to turn the preconditions for conflict |
8 |
Cosmophobe |
"Withdrawn" |
single |
into assumptions: |
9 |
Crematory |
"Trümmerwelten" |
Inglorious Darkness |
to score chalk lines with knife blades |
10 |
Black Void |
"No Right, No Wrong" |
Antithesis |
and give exhortational names to uneasily fluttering flags. |
11 |
Corvus Corax |
"Na láma-sa - Era Metallum - Bonus Track" |
single |
By the time fighting starts, |
12 |
Draugurinn |
"Undirheimum" |
Minningar úr Undirheimum |
the mythologies have already been focused-grouped |
13 |
Circus of Fools |
"In the Name of Science" |
single |
and A/B tested, |
14 |
Sick n' beautiful |
"This is Not the End" |
single |
not to choose between A and B, |
15 |
LOST NEBULA |
"Darwin Among The Machines" |
single |
but to ensure that there seem to be no other choices. |
16 |
PARTICLES |
"Heavy Heart" |
Heavy Heart |
Scylla and Charybdis, |
17 |
Xandria |
"Reborn" |
single |
purged and therapied, |
18 |
Dol Theeta |
"We Die Alone" |
single |
are rehired as our captains, |
19 |
Cinnamun Beloved |
"Out of Sight" |
single |
allocating our waiting ships into exactly two doomed fleets. |
20 |
Evol Walks |
"Drag Me Down" |
single |
The anthem market marshals eager hordes for "Crash" |
21 |
Chez Kane |
"Powerzone" |
single |
and "Burn", |
22 |
Yohei Kimura |
"Dawn" |
single |
and administrative fees for "ponder what you remember most fondly from yesterday" |
23 |
TRiDENT |
"Spoopy" |
single |
and "where would you have to be going to experience this street as majestic?" |
24 |
ARCANA PROJECT |
"革命的レイメイ" |
single |
The choices you are offered are, |
25 |
燐舞曲 |
"Nocturne" |
SHIN-RAI |
however sporadically compelling, |
26 |
Rei Yasuda |
"each day each night" |
single |
surreptitiously and quintessentially false. |
27 |
Superfly |
"ダイナマイト" |
single |
Your actual degrees of freedom are at least as rapturously panoramic |
28 |
Bray me |
"マーリー" |
single |
as they are plaintively undone. |
29 |
BBHF |
"Dounarunokana" |
13 |
There is soft ground under these brittle roads, |
30 |
postman |
"Inventor" |
single |
and resolute stones under the breathing earth, |
31 |
The Gospel Youth |
"Over My Head" |
single |
and reservoirs of fire under these obdurate shells. |
32 |
MUNA |
"Home By Now" |
Home By Now +3 |
We have our own names for our backyard goats, but they call each other Rakia, Sheol and Tehom, |
33 |
Sky Ferreira |
"Don’t Forget" |
single |
in fond and jumpy accents, |
34 |
Tunde Olaniran |
"Evergreen" |
single |
as an in-joke about how we never change, |
35 |
SVRCINA |
"Next Generation" |
single |
but are always adorable. |
36 |
Cassyette |
"Sad Girl Summer" |
single |
Our seasons are not journeys, |
37 |
The Faim |
"Me Because of You" |
Me Because of You 5 |
just slight precessional vantages into the slow inertia |
38 |
Madison Rose |
"Moonlight" |
TECHNICOLOR |
we allegorically infer over fast spin. |
39 |
Natasha Zimbaro |
"Except for You" |
Natasha Zimbaro 3 |
In our stories, we are always the exceptions, |
40 |
Belén Aguilera |
"ANTAGONISTA" |
single |
and the bad stories fail to remind us that this is a quality of storytelling, |
41 |
Marta Soto |
"Esperanza" |
Todo lo que tengo |
not essentialist heritage or its parsimoniously distributed potential. |
42 |
Rozalén |
"Agarrarte a la Vida" |
single |
Our temples are not portals out of this laborious purgatory, |
43 |
Jaula de Grillos |
"Bengalas" |
single |
they are prototypes for future instructive ruins. |
44 |
Momma |
"Lucky" |
Lucky +3 |
We are blessed by only what we have been born after, |
45 |
baṣnia |
"Waterfalls" |
In Parts Messed Up |
and the geography we have framed with platforms and railings |
46 |
Malamute |
"Deshacer el Hechizo" |
Una Gran Decepción |
and named after what it used to mean. |
47 |
Candelas |
"Cysgod Mis Hydref" |
single |
All of this began as a prison colony |
48 |
VUKOVI |
"HADES" |
HADES 5 |
in exile from formatively serene oblivion, |
49 |
Then Comes Silence |
"Chain" |
single |
and persists as glib hoodies from notional antediluvian athletic departments. |
50 |
Sorry X |
"Game Over" |
Online Rockstar 5 |
I can give you any of a million reasons to not give up, |
51 |
Ada Rook |
"XANAFALGUE" |
UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU |
and spend the rest of the year rearranging the ones I kept. |
52 |
Rivilin |
"Fatal" |
single |
It isn't this commerce that gradually kills us, |
53 |
yung axstn |
"Nightmare" |
single |
it's arranging decimational simplifications in series |
54 |
Sullii |
"me and mine" |
single |
until we run out of notation and safe houses and Oatly, |
55 |
Skorn3896 |
"Leave me in Desolation" |
Isolate × Forget 4 |
and think this means we have chosen a side |
56 |
Wiley |
"Tower Block Freestyle" |
single |
we have only taken. |
57 |
Shogun |
"Start Again" |
single |
Put it down. Look at the marks on your hands from where you were holding it. |
58 |
Conscious Route |
"Orphans" |
Orphans +1 |
Practice breathing out through your noise, in through your ears, |
59 |
Madlela |
"UMONA" |
single |
until your skin and blood remind each other how they feel. |
60 |
Dladla Mshunqisi |
"AmaNazaretha" |
single |
The things we build are the negative space around our movements, |
61 |
DJ Stax |
"Ungalibali" |
single |
pressed against our beliefs and disbeliefs and their syntheses, |
62 |
Josh Dally |
"Thinking About You" |
Speak Your Mind |
coiled amidst what we hope and regret. |
63 |
Palace |
"Westbound" |
single |
The horizon is not a boundary between love and fear, |
64 |
Shearwater |
"Laguna Seca" |
Laguna Seca +2 |
it is a brand used to sell you insufficiency as an identity, |
65 |
Malamute |
"Física Cuántica" |
Una Gran Decepción |
and its homeosociopathic ointments as a subscription. |
66 |
Kai Whiston |
"Between Lures" |
single |
All factions are reifications as fighting styles. |
67 |
Valentina Magaletti |
"The Unity of the Mind" |
A Queer Anthology of Drums |
War is the metaphor nihilists use to externalize responsibility |
68 |
Galya Bisengalieva |
"Should I Panic About Dying" |
single |
for the tedium of their solipsism. |
69 |
The Lassie Foundation |
"Dive Bomber (Cave Sessions)" |
Cave Sessions 4 |
Peace is the warm space around them, pressing in with arms and lips and hooks. |
70 |
Heather Nova |
"Here Comes Your Man" |
single |
Outside we wait. |
71 |
Kontrollverlust |
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" |
Don't You (Forget About Me) +2 |
The light gets into our hearts. |
72 |
The Animal In Me |
"Mr. Brightside" |
single |
The saints come back out of the sea: breathless and gleaming; eager and calling; sand and water; touching your chest and saying "it's you, it was always you". |