| 1 | CHERRY GIRLS PROJECT | "Ai o Chodai" | single | I've been going to the office. It's mostly empty. |
| 2 | illiomote | "Take a chance" | single | The relationship connecting these two things oscillates between "because" and "even though", |
| 3 | Hikicomoteikoku | "Teoawaseta" | single | but I like taking a slow walk after a fast run in the morning, |
| 4 | m!sa | "Statice" | single | and there are different lunch options, |
| 5 | Bray me | "ONE DAY" | HELL-BENT 6 | and it gives B a chance to have the house to herself, |
| 6 | NEKIRU | "From. PLUTO" | PLUTO 4 | although by "chance" I mean if the loud one of our two aging cats |
| 7 | POPPiNG EMO | "Brand new sky" | single | forgets that he's yowlingly Concerned About Everything long enough to fall asleep. |
| 8 | Cmiyc | "Alternative" | single | The building is across the street from Boston City Hall, |
| 9 | つぼみ大革命 | "ちゅき♡らびゅ (~HARD ver.~)" | single | a hulking Brutalist eyesore that used to have a giant charmless cement plaza in front of it. |
| 10 | HoneyWorks | "夢ファンファーレ" | single | Whether the years-long reconfiguration of this space will succeed in making it actively charming remains to be seen, |
| 11 | Ardours | "Epitaph for a Spark" | single | but it will at least be less charmless. |
| 12 | Deep Sun | "Euphoria" | Dreamland - Behind The Shades | There are bricks, and some trees, |
| 13 | Dol Theeta | "Remember" | Monad | and the large space is rearranged into a set of smaller patterns, |
| 14 | Venus 5 | "Bury Me" | Venus 5 | and there's an elevated ramplike feature at one end that looks, |
| 15 | Future Palace | "Dead Inside" | Run | in its current half-constructed state, |
| 16 | Without Warning | "Black Venom" | single | like it will be used in an attempt to jump an electric motorcycle |
| 17 | Carmilla | "The One" | single | over the nearby Holocaust memorial |
| 18 | HEXED | "Repentance" | single | into the historic sign for the Union Oyster House, |
| 19 | Thy Shade | "What If" | single | the shards of which would then presumably crash down festively, |
| 20 | The Artificials | "Like Watercolor" | single | like snow but less seasonal and more mutilatory, |
| 21 | Cecile Monique | "Engel" | single | onto the passing Freedom Trail. |
| 22 | Scarlet Dorn | "Falling" | single | Boston is an extended exercise in layering: |
| 23 | Averlanche | "In The Theater Of Fire" | single | oversimplified reverence and stern object lessons coexisting plentifully, |
| 24 | Powerwolf | "Glaubenskraft - The Monumental Mass" | Glaubenskraft 2 | if not always peacefully; |
| 25 | Wind Rose | "Army of Stone" | Warfront | alternating landmarks and landfill; |
| 26 | Keldian | "The Million Dollar Mile" | The Bloodwater Rebellion | passive-aggressively lingering segregation |
| 27 | Ember Falls | "Avalanche" | Experiments 4 | and small noble efforts at globalist exemplification; |
| 28 | Seventh Wonder | "I Carry the Blame" | The Testament | traditionalist intransigence somehow both delaying |
| 29 | MCC [Magna Carta Cartel] | "Darling" | The Dying Option | and facilitating |
| 30 | Tierra Santa | "Por el Valle de las Sombras" | Destino | grand infrastructural ambition. |
| 31 | Sleeper Ship | "Wasting Love" | single | City Hall lurks malignantly in the middle of this, |
| 32 | Beyond The Night | "Wretched Kings" | Reminiscence of the New Dawn 4 | seemingly both irredeemable and irremovable, |
| 33 | Kreator | "Killer Of Jesus" | Hate Über Alles | but until just recently, on the timescales of cities, |
| 34 | Whisper of Runes | "Minne (Minnesang II)" | single | there was an at-least-equally regrettable elevated freeway slicing grimly down the middle of downtown, |
| 35 | Corvus Corax | "Béowulf is mín nama - Era Metallum - Bonus Track" | single | as if "spine" were a pejorative or a punishment. |
| 36 | dArtagnan | "Westwind" | single | We buried the road and put a green way on top of it. |
| 37 | Elkir | "Fight For The Empire" | single | Greenish, anyway: |
| 38 | Schandmaul | "Der Flug" | Knüppel aus dem Sack | snaked narrowly between surface roads, |
| 39 | Vinnie Camilleri | "Ostara" | single | slashed by tunnel accessors, |
| 40 | HYMALAYA | "Acennan Feorh" | single | punctuated by mysterious utility structures |
| 41 | Eolya | "Edun" | single | and partially flooded every year or two by hundred-year storms. |
| 42 | IANAI | "Manda Navaja" | Sunir | Human, that is, |
| 43 | Vermilia | "Hautavajo" | single | in the naively ambitious way of most of our less-bad bad ideas. |
| 44 | Imperial Triumphant | "Merkurius Gilded" | single | As a tourist destination this is a visually underwhelming |
| 45 | Kardashev | "Silvered Shadows" | Liminal Rite | challenge to the narrator: |
| 46 | Boris | "Question 1" | Question 1 +1 | can you convey enough of the missing shadows of the looming roadway |
| 47 | Axioma | "God Extraction" | God Extraction +2 | and the weight of its exhaust, |
| 48 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Blackout77" | single | imaginarily in the open air and sunlight left behind, |
| 49 | Avatarium | "God Is Silent" | single | to evoke the psychogeography of the transformation |
| 50 | A.A. Williams | "Evaporate" | single | and its context in the history of the expedient divisions |
| 51 | Zola Jesus | "Into The Wild" | Into The Wild +3 | and laborious reunifications of cities |
| 52 | Regina Spektor | "Loveology" | single | and their people? |
| 53 | Lotic | "Always You (Sparkling)" | single | We have two pieces of the Berlin Wall here, even, |
| 54 | Zap Mama | "Dessiné" | single | but they sit tellingly at other locations, |
| 55 | Sofi Mayen | "Me Enamoré" | Me Enamoré 6 | one outside of a minor "international" business school |
| 56 | Paty Cantú | "Bailo Sola" | single | and the other inside the JFK Presidential Library, |
| 57 | Paula Koops | "Odio que te quiero" | single | as if the lessons of history are a specialized curriculum |
| 58 | Turpin | "Como un Niño en Verano" | Monteparaiso (Turpin & Mandy Goldea) 2 | for a particular caste of nomadic bureaucrats |
| 59 | Mónica Morado | "Algo Mejor" | single | and hereditary dynasts. |
| 60 | Mariska | "Sit kun mul on sut" | single | This is the same insidious moral misdirection, of course, |
| 61 | MOTHICA | "BEDTIME STORIES" | BEDTIME STORIES / BLOOD 5 | as objecting to theories that your schools already weren't teaching, |
| 62 | emlyn | "loneliest b!tch in america" | loneliest b!tch in america | and the myopic reduction of "history" to events. |
| 63 | King Princess | "Too Bad" | Too Bad / Cursed 4 | Urban planning is an ongoing dialectic of mistakes and restorations |
| 64 | Helen Love | "Come Out Sunshine" | single | expressed in concrete. |
| 65 | Tove Styrke | "Cool Me Down" | HARD | History is the same thing, |
| 66 | Demi Lovato | "SKIN OF MY TEETH" | single | but set in prejudices mislabeled as ambitions. |
| 67 | Chuxx Morris | "Infinity" | single | The story I try to find my part in, for my own benefit or the more-dubious benefit of guests, |
| 68 | Pale Waves | "Reasons To Live" | single | as I stand across the street from a Panera |
| 69 | Metric | "What Feels Like Eternity" | What Feels Like Eternity +2 | gesturing at a highway that isn't there, |
| 70 | Sarah Kinsley | "Green" | Cypress 5 | isn't a novel of the problems we cause |
| 71 | Beach Bunny | "Entropy" | Entropy +3 | or a novella of their tentative mitigations, |
| 72 | SASAMI | "Tried To Understand" | single | but a trailing fragment of the poem of how we got here |
| 73 | BAYBE | "DON'T HMU" | single | and the beginning of the anthem of how we temporarily escaped. |
| 74 | The Aces | "Girls Make Me Wanna Die" | single | We keep making lists, even after we've supposedly let go of our canonicalist delusions, |
| 75 | Ca$hrina | "nobody makes it out alive" | single | because we don't have to believe in the imminent rapture |
| 76 | girl_irl | "match" | world champ 3 | to want to organize our understanding of our own implied karma. |
| 77 | Boy In Space | "Asshole" | single | You can't trust a storyteller who thinks they're only telling you the truth. |
| 78 | poptropicaslutz! | "1000 peaceful ways to die" | single | They are admitting, plaintively, that they are falling through the narrative |
| 79 | snow ellet | "Brand New" | Glory Days 5 | under something else's power: |
| 80 | Anthony Sidoti | "From The Inside" | The Curse Is Me | gravity, or any one of countless more-trivial inertiae. |
| 81 | Blvc Svnd | "PEDOPHILE JAMZ" | BLVC HULK | I didn't live here before the highway went up, |
| 82 | BLUE ENCOUNT | "青" | single | earnestly or colonially, |
| 83 | coldrain | "Before I Go" | single | as if these are extricable. |
| 84 | reGretGirl | "Hangover" | single | They didn't tear down my End |
| 85 | UNDEAD CORPORATION | "Get It" | J.O.I.N.T. | or fill in my swamp |
| 86 | Good Grief | "Haunt" | single | or turn my home into adjacent antipathic hemispheres, |
| 87 | Hollow Suns | "Nameless" | Otherside | but the only thing you're ever supposed to learn from history, |
| 88 | たかやん | "I hate everything" | single | no matter what we claim that consists of, |
| 89 | Österreich | "Family Conclusion" | single | is that what we do to anybody, |
| 90 | jizue | "brink" | single | we do to ourselves. |
| 91 | Perfect Average | "Never Ends" | single | These lines we draw -- |
| 92 | Underclass | "Cigarettes & Strong Perfumes" | single | walls or where they used to be, |
| 93 | POLYDRIVE | "By My Side" | single | stations of martyrdom or its rebranding as Freedom, |
| 94 | Mœnia | "El Diablo en el Cuerpo" | single | rueful heartbeat races or wary signal-beacon sweeps -- |
| 95 | El Otro Yo | "Gigante" | single | describe the shapes |
| 96 | Editors | "Karma Climb" | Karma Climb +2 | and thus the limits |
| 97 | Del Amitri | "At the End of the Lightning" | At The End Of The Lightning 3 | of our emotionally essential and essentially unreliable perception. |
| 98 | Shearwater | "Everyone You Touch" | The Great Awakening | Our essentialism is endemic, |
| 99 | Sŵnami | "Paradis Disparu" | single | historiographic, |
| 100 | Bastille | "Remind Me" | single | nostalgic. |
| 101 | Jimmy Eat World | "Something Loud" | single | I walk to the office to touch different squares with my feet, |
| 102 | Gräce | "Fiona" | Hope | not to evade a routine but to expand it, |
| 103 | Journey | "Don't Give Up On Us" | Don't Give Up On Us +2 | not because we only share journeys inside of rooms |
| 104 | The Midnight | "Heartbeat" | Heartbeat +1 | but because the spaces chased between buildings are as positive and activated |
| 105 | H.E.A.T | "Hollywood" | Hollywood +2 | as the ones chewed and swallowed inside. |
| 106 | Rauhbein | "Rauhbein" | Steh wieder auf | If you can learn to walk around foreign cities without fearing them, |
| 107 | Karavana | "Qué Bien los Dos" | single | you can learn to walk around your own home without fearing that |
| 108 | Da Igual | "Adicción" | EXPLOSIÓN DE COLOR | "home" is defined by a terrified and frantic repulsion, |
| 109 | Cara Calma | "Valanga" | single | and thus to stop and stand still, |
| 110 | The Rasmus | "Rise" | single | there or here or anywhere, |
| 111 | Malloy | "Windsurf" | single | and let the sounds all sing to you at once. |
| 112 | Jo Black | "Vegter" | Vegter | All of this music is country music, |
| 113 | PHIWA MANQELE | "PHIWA MANQELE (UNGAMETHEMBI UMUNTU)" | HLALA NAMI | of countries of infinitely varying rationales and extents. |
| 114 | Phakamani Mbuyazi | "La Rocka UNYAZILWEZULU" | single | But you get there and they're mostly empty, |
| 115 | uMxwayisi | "Salute" | single | or full but the plaza meant for your welcome parade is fenced off and filled with |
| 116 | Amajimbosi | "Hhayi Bamba Hhayi Luma" | Hhayi Bamba Hhayi Luma | forklifts |
| 117 | Casual da deejay | "Inhlupheko-Lauziq_musiq" | single | and the torn-down fragments of whatever was here before. |
| 118 | Moonchild Sanelly | "Let It Rip" | Phases | These grueling improvement projects, of cities or bodies or selves, |
| 119 | Deena Abdelwahed | "Alpha GPC" | Free Radicals 3 | will always be impossible to adequately explain. |
| 120 | Hollie Kenniff | "Enfold" | single | You cannot reconstruct the entropy |
| 121 | Hatis Noit | "Inori" | Inori +2 | that used to prevail |
| 122 | Ola Szmidt | "C Tactile Afferent" | single | before somebody made some of it into this song, |
| 123 | Silvia Tarozzi | "Country cloud" | Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d‘amore | this space in the air, |
| 124 | Leila Bordreuil | "For Tamio" | Not an Elegy | this name for a path that wasn't truly a path until the name made it. |
| 125 | Kate Carr | "resurfacing" | single | The cat is right to be concerned, |
| 126 | Patty Griffin | "One Day We Could" | Tape | and the constant yowling isn't really that different from how we cope with it ourselves. |
| 127 | Sergio Rodríguez | "A Whole New World" | single | "Hold your breath", I tell him. "It gets better." He looks at me like I'm human, like he's explained this to me a thousand times and the only thing I've ever done right is yowl back. |
| 128 | Dominhuz | "They Don´t Care About Us" | single | It's not a complaint, it's a chorus. Cats have no cities, but maybe just not yet. |
| 129 | Kontrollverlust | "Let It Be" | Help! 3 | Come back in 50 years, by going and returning or just staying, and see what has been made: in place of our roads and walls, |
| 130 | TITUS | "Running Up That Hill" | single | out of our songs. |