| 1 | Zola Jesus | "Do That Anymore" | Arkhon | "What is this, and is there more of it?" |
| 2 | Hatis Noit | "Thor" | Aura | This is how I've always understood music, |
| 3 | Galya Bisengalieva | "Elina's Fears" | single | as a listener and a writer and a programmer, |
| 4 | Rachika Nayar | "Heaven Come Crashing" | Heaven Come Crashing +1 | eager to know both answers |
| 5 | Madeleine Cocolas | "Northern Storm" | Northern Storm +2 | but willing to come back to the first one later if the second one leads somewhere now. |
| 6 | Anteloper | "Inia" | Pink Dolphins | I hear in comparisons as subjective connection, |
| 7 | Lucrecia Dalt | "No tiempo" | single | not as an intentional critique of uniqueness, |
| 8 | Blender | "Ullared" | Ullared +1 | but a wish to hear and be a part of something bigger, |
| 9 | Imogen Clark | "Nonchalant" | single | something infinite, |
| 10 | MUNA | "What I Want" | MUNA | to hear every song as a beginning. |
| 11 | Tove Lo | "True Romance" | single | Kate Bush's Hounds of Love came out in the fall of 1985, just as I was starting college, |
| 12 | FLETCHER | "Her Body Is Bible" | single | or my life in a city full of record stores, |
| 13 | WILLOW | "<maybe> it's my fault" | single | depending on which horizon you look over, from here or the other side of it. |
| 14 | Regina Spektor | "One Man's Prayer" | Home, before and after | It wasn't my first New Wave emergence from an album-rock adolescence, |
| 15 | Taylor Swift | "Carolina - From The Motion Picture “Where The Crawdads Sing”" | Carolina 2 | but it was my first favorite record that wasn't made out of guitars |
| 16 | Martha | "My Heart is a Drummer" | My Heart is a Drummer +1 | played by men, |
| 17 | The Warning | "AMOUR" | ERROR | and the beginning of literally uncountable chains of associative insatiability |
| 18 | Cyan Kicks | "See the Light" | single | leading anywhere: |
| 19 | Petrol Girls | "Violent by Design" | Baby | to viscerality as an inner monologue, |
| 20 | HARUKATOMIYUKI | "Transparent" | single | to reverie as provocation, |
| 21 | Hana | "konnnayorunihaarittakenohakusyuwo" | single | to detachment as a method of engagement, |
| 22 | Kuhakugokko | "Kamisama" | Kamisama/Sanctuary 2 | to boundary defiance and with it |
| 23 | アノンクララ | "たとえ明日が変わらないとしても" | たとえ明日が変わらないとしても +2 | an understanding of hearing as more than an echolocation |
| 24 | Afterglow | "Kanayume" | single | of self. |
| 25 | Österreich | "caes" | Dearly Departed 5 | Do you want to hear about the deal I'm making? |
| 26 | NON | "そばにいるから" | single | "Running Up That Hill" isn't the first time I said yes, |
| 27 | METAMOLFOURZE | "Checkmate!!!" | single | but it can resound as an origin myth of how I learned to always say yes, |
| 28 | POPPiNG EMO | "INNOCENT" | single | to want to know the story every story tells itself about why it is told, |
| 29 | sui sui | "MONSTER BITE" | single | and then to dreambind these stories into ephemeral anthologies of revelation and joy. |
| 30 | Payrin's | "Re:road" | single | "This reminds me of" isn't a tactical riposte in a duel between text and criticism, |
| 31 | NEMOPHILA | "徒花 -ADABANA-" | single | it's a way of hearing in emotional context, |
| 32 | Hikari Shiina | "Blind love Syndrome" | Blind love Syndrome +1 | and thus of converting each incoming inertia |
| 33 | CHERRY GIRLS PROJECT | "Megami Tensei" | Ai o Chodai (Special Edition) 6 | into negotiable velocity for the next escape. |
| 34 | Isiliel | "光明生死" | single | I have spent what I assume will end up having been significant fractions of my lifespan writing about, |
| 35 | SHOW-YA | "組曲 ~Battle Orchestra~" | single | or on behalf of, |
| 36 | YYNOT | "Mask" | Light and Shade | music, and much of that on ways to describe it, |
| 37 | Novena | "Ghosts" | single | but mainly what I've learned is that description is a stasis |
| 38 | The Soap Girls | "Liar" | In My Skin | that feels like a movement, |
| 39 | Eye of Melian | "Vita Nova" | Legends of Light | a cargo-cult version of causality |
| 40 | Empress | "Into the Grey" | single | that elides all the most interesting ambiguities |
| 41 | I Miss My Death | "Ой ходить сон" | single | as if certainty can be blithely substituted for clarity, |
| 42 | Dawn of Destiny | "Silence" | Of Silence | and then clarity for cohesion. |
| 43 | Dynazty | "Natural Born Killer" | Natural Born Killer +3 | Thus, in a quest for identity |
| 44 | Fallen Sanctuary | "Rise Against the World" | Terranova | we end up with brands, |
| 45 | Victorius | "Jurassic Jetfighters" | Dinosaur Warfare Pt. 2 – The Great Ninja War | and yearning for communities |
| 46 | Machine Head | "UNHALLØWED" | UNHALLØWED +1 | we get names for the places where nobody lives. |
| 47 | Megadeth | "We’ll Be Back" | single | We have spent centuries writing books about faraway places you might eventually and laboriously visit, |
| 48 | Queensrÿche | "In Extremis" | single | and then not realizing that we are now always among them. |
| 49 | Marja Üldine | "UnFear" | single | You do not need to be outfitted for an overland ordeal |
| 50 | Khold | "Ødslet Blod" | Svartsyn | when you can step through a portal to the farthest nearby or nearest Nether, |
| 51 | Darkane | "Embrace The Flames" | Inhuman Spirits | and then just as easily back, or even more enticingly onwards. |
| 52 | Saor | "Call of the Carnyx" | Origins | It is enough to bring things into contact, |
| 53 | Hiroe | "Doom Moon" | Doom Moon +2 | or any other kind of juxtapositional awareness. |
| 54 | Ştiu Nu Ştiu | "Nyx" | single | These tendrils of air will be capillaries of euphoria or regret, |
| 55 | BardoMagno | "Game Of Signorie" | single | of resolve or reservation, |
| 56 | STRYDEGOR | "Atmosfear" | Atmosfear +1 | suspended in whatever space lingers hesitantly between our skin. |
| 57 | Forgotten North | "Rette sich wer kann" | Ära II | Change the singer, and you get a different band. |
| 58 | Lándevir | "Never Stop Dreaming" | single | The Levenshtein distance between the member lists is an employment metric, |
| 59 | Lutavierje | "Khadzili dzieuki" | Na Kupallie 5 | not a quantification of aesthetic stability |
| 60 | Kiberspassk | "Daleko" | Daleko +2 | or a predictor of your pulse. |
| 61 | Heilung | "Anoana" | single | At least, in music, the absurdity of originalism is obvious. |
| 62 | Byrdi | "Sjaa Yggdrasil" | single | You are hearing every song anew, |
| 63 | SKALTI | "Ymir Líða" | Idavollr | torn from the moments in which it was written or recorded, |
| 64 | glaive | "minnesota is a place that exists" | single | any anonymity it once sustained replaced by your humid inability to ever forget yourself. |
| 65 | Nosgov | "with the wind" | single | What is this, and is there more of it, |
| 66 | Nightly | "on your sleeve" | single | and what do I become as it surrounds me? |
| 67 | Planet 1999 | "i<3u" | this is our music ♫ 6 | The brave and the foolish |
| 68 | 4s4ki | "LOG OUT" | single | both let the water rise and take them. |
| 69 | SKYND | "Armin Meiwes" | single | Maybe we will be improved by drowning, |
| 70 | Dev Lemons | "CEO OF MY ASS" | single | or by furiously nearly drowning, if we survive this rising swamp. |
| 71 | Sexyy Red | "All White Forces" | single | The paradoxical converse of globalist humanism is that the greatest thing about other people is that you don't have to be them |
| 72 | Tunde Olaniran | "Done Done" | single | to be human. |
| 73 | Tony Njoku | "Lotus" | single | The next song starts, and you live with it for the rest of your life |
| 74 | Nerd Magnet | "About to Explode" | I'm Still Here | or :29 and then never again. |
| 75 | AIRFLIP | "PUSH YOUR SELF" | single | The deal you thought you were making |
| 76 | bottomshelf | "Something More" | single | will be renegotiated, anyway, if you make it to the top of the hill. |
| 77 | SpaceMan 1981 | "Drive into the Sunset" | Lost in Orbit | This is why we can run up hills, or down, or around to whatever is hidden behind them. |
| 78 | Palace | "Fifteen Minutes" | single | 37 years is a long time |
| 79 | Veintiuno | "Escalofríos" | single | made of 3:44s and 3:19s and 2:48s and sharp and swelling breaths. |
| 80 | MARLENA | "niñata" | single | There is more of everything. |
| 81 | K!ngdom | "Hetero Pero" | single | Your songs are gifts you give everyone at once, |
| 82 | Tanxugueiras | "Seghadoras" | single | for which your responsibility ends at your teeth. |
| 83 | COLLAPSE | "VERTIGO" | BLACK SHEEP IS STILL DREAMING | They spin around your head before they return to you, |
| 84 | Earthists. | "Cure" | Have A Good Cult | changed by the vulnerable orbits, |
| 85 | DEXCORE | "THE LIGHT" | THE LIGHT +1 | inverted by re-entry. |
| 86 | Matenrou Opera | "Koboreochiteikumirai" | Shinjitsu wo shittiku monogatari | If you ever ran out of songs, you could just sing more, |
| 87 | hitbox | "george bush era flash games were the shit" | single | and of course this is why you won't, |
| 88 | Vazum | "Angel" | single | why eternity is folded up sideways |
| 89 | Mutiara Damansara | "Nothing Left" | single | into the gatefold these songs don't come in. |
| 90 | O.R.k. | "As I Leave" | single | The deepest flaw of originalism isn't its devotion to the old order of words, |
| 91 | Porcupine Tree | "Never Have" | CLOSURE / CONTINUATION | it's the illusion that the words themselves were ever fixed in place |
| 92 | Lonely Robot | "Recalibrating" | single | by ink or fiat. |
| 93 | Paige | "Phakade" | single | You can only sing by letting your own air out of your body, |
| 94 | Maredi | "Tladimolongwana" | single | exchanging it for the breath of others |
| 95 | 071 NELLY THE MASTER BEAT | "Kudala Sthandwa" | single | at a rate set by atmospheric pressure, |
| 96 | Darksidevinyl | "Nala" | single | not minority vote. |
| 97 | Donae'o | "Braveheart" | Braveheart +2 | The brave and the foolish both let the next song start, |
| 98 | Thandi Ntuli | "Inkululeko" | single | not knowing what a life without it could have been, |
| 99 | Choronzon | "An Invitation" | Madness Swallows This Flesh | and jubilantly not caring. |
| 100 | Roxette | "Real Sugar (Shooting Star Treatment)" | ROX RMX Vol. 1 (Remixes From The Roxette Vaults) | Do you want to feel how it feels? |
| 101 | Roxette | "The Look - Big Red Mix" | ROX RMX Vol. 2 (Remixes From The Roxette Vaults) | Kissing is a color, |
| 102 | Roxette | "Chances (Dancehall Version)" | ROX RMX Vol. 3 (Remixes From The Roxette Vaults) | but you have to know that it doesn't hurt you. |
| 103 | Dust in Mind | "Awake" | single | Do you want to hear about the deal you're making |
| 104 | Youth Fountain | "Light Switch" | single | when you move around? |
| 105 | Blinding Sunrise | "Hadaka No Yuusha" | single | The sadness that flew from somewhere |
| 106 | The Merrymakers | "No More Lonely Nights" | single | won't go away until you tell it to. |
| 107 | First to Eleven | "Barracuda" | single | Kisses for everyone; |
| 108 | Minniva | "Summer of '69" | single | "nothing lasts forever" say all the songs |
| 109 | Kontrollverlust | "The Boys of Summer" | The Boys of Summer +2 | that are never gone. |
| 110 | Brooklynn | "As It Was" | single | You're no good alone, but you're never alone. |
| 111 | Brooklynn | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | single | The deals we're making are not with God, cannot be with gods, need not be with gods. The blood gods have more than enough blood. |
| 112 | Social Repose | "Running Up That Hill" | single | What is this? It's music, and there's so much more of it. |
| 113 | Minority 905 | "Running Up That Hill" | single | It's you and me, |
| 114 | DRYVE | "Running Up That Hill" | single | and we don't have to be unhappy. |