1 |
Zsasz |
"Shimashima Melody" |
single |
Every question you ask assumes, |
2 |
Li-V-RAVE |
"Amber" |
single |
or implies, or embeds, or encodes, |
3 |
Reasons |
"Wait" |
REASON : 1 6 |
a subjective and thus always partially imaginary worldview |
4 |
AINSEL |
"if" |
single |
assembled of false and tentative certainties |
5 |
WAGAMAMA RAKIA |
"Bite Off!!!!" |
ONYX 5 |
and the carefully framed spaces between them. |
6 |
H-el-ical// |
"螺旋の繭" |
解放区 |
Modern windows are walls with a feature for the transfer of limited information |
7 |
angela |
"JUST COMMUNICATION" |
single |
from the world we share |
8 |
Kaela Kimura |
"Color Me feat. MahiToThePeople" |
single |
to the one you think you control. |
9 |
On the treat Super Season |
"emotion" |
single |
Morally, this is a dubious premise, |
10 |
Nana Mizuki |
"Go Live!" |
single |
although physically, there's weather, which complicates things. |
11 |
B.O.L.T |
"New Day Rising" |
single |
But in general, lazy technology tries to sell you isolation in the guise of comfort. |
12 |
PIGGS |
"豚反骨精神論" |
豚反骨精神論 / BURNING PRIDE 3 |
Ambitious technology tries to gift you survivability in vulnerability. |
13 |
BiS |
"Hey boy hey girl" |
single |
Questions and answers are teleological technology, |
14 |
INUWASI |
"ERMA" |
ERMA +1 |
and thus the weakest questions attempt to dictate the terms of potential response the most strictly, |
15 |
tipToe. |
"Unite" |
candlelight |
and the weakest answers try to unask the questions |
16 |
Yandoll |
"too late" |
LUST KILL |
as if doubt is an embarrassment. |
17 |
POPPiNG EMO |
"Senritsu Holy Night" |
single |
Doubt, like skin, |
18 |
PLANCK STARS |
"Soiyassa! Hayashi-kun" |
single |
can only become embarrassing through the separation |
19 |
幻想ばっどえんど |
"meisei" |
single |
of self from surface. |
20 |
Schrödinger's dog |
"DoublE SliT" |
single |
Technology will try to sell you this, too: |
21 |
Broken By The Scream |
"メラメラセニョリータ" |
single |
compromises rebranded as progress |
22 |
Secret Rule |
"The Showdown" |
The Resilient |
and process as identity; |
23 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Unearth Life" |
single |
treadmills for simulated movement; |
24 |
Scarlet Dorn |
"Unstill Life" |
Unstill Life +1 |
clothes that make people who look better than you |
25 |
Carmilla |
"Two-Faced" |
single |
look better than you feel. |
26 |
Dark Princess |
"Phoenix" |
Phoenix +2 |
The best answers do not try to settle a question |
27 |
Orden Ogan |
"Absolution for Our Final Days" |
Absolution for Our Final Days +1 |
into rooted complacency, |
28 |
Crystal Gates |
"My Glorious Fall" |
single |
but to set it on a curious journey |
29 |
Carved |
"Doom" |
single |
and then cheerfully demand to tag along. |
30 |
Tales of a Sleeping Giant |
"Blut & Alraune" |
Blut & Alraune +1 |
The best questions, thus, |
31 |
Stratovarius |
"World on Fire" |
World on Fire +1 |
are proactive recognitions of a vital shortage of doubt, |
32 |
Virtual Symmetry |
"Come Alive" |
single |
not palliative measures against it. |
33 |
We are Legend |
"I Don't Care" |
single |
Exploration is not defined by goals |
34 |
Black Paisley |
"Not Alone" |
single |
but by the willingness to leave your home, |
35 |
Baron Carta |
"Relanar" |
Shards of Black |
and not measured by what you return with |
36 |
Tidal Dreams |
"We've Risen Again" |
single |
but what you notice while you are away, |
37 |
Dovorian |
"New Faith" |
Kneel and Follow |
which is to say not primarily measured. |
38 |
Brymir |
"Voices in the Sky" |
single |
All of Schrödinger's pets learn, quickly, |
39 |
Xaon |
"The Hunt" |
The Lethean |
about his weird thing with boxes, |
40 |
Gaerea |
"Salve" |
single |
and that almost-wink eye-twitch he has as he explains, |
41 |
Grima |
"Giant’s Eternal Sleep" |
single |
while closing the flaps, |
42 |
NORDLOTH |
"To Enchant the World Again" |
single |
that he will be carefully avoiding any form of observation of the contents. |
43 |
Al-Namrood |
"Protector of the Herd" |
Worship the Degenerate |
He goes to bed, and the other animals quietly let the new dog out |
44 |
МЁРТВАЯ ВЕРА |
"Ржавый крест" |
Ржавый крест +3 |
and close the box up again, empty, |
45 |
Gothminister |
"Pandemonium" |
single |
in the laboratory of empty boxes. |
46 |
Daridel |
"Viking Soul" |
single |
In the morning he will feed them all before he makes his own breakfast, |
47 |
David Chas |
"Aonbharr of Manannán" |
Riocht Na Gaels |
putting out a new water dish for the new dog. |
48 |
HYMALAYA |
"Sea Emperor" |
single |
Later he will invite them all for a colloquium on the probability functions |
49 |
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows |
"Todesschlaf 1" |
Todesschlaf 3 |
of what one would find inside each of their sealed boxes, |
50 |
tacica |
"Impulse for Adventure" |
singularity |
or, if you are a dog, a walk. |
51 |
amazarashi |
"カシオピア係留所" |
single |
All of our homes become metaboxes of empty boxes |
52 |
Marmalade butcher |
"MŌ-MO-KU" |
single |
whose contents we stipulate are undetermined |
53 |
Half-Life |
"RAY" |
single |
even as they jump up to snuggle with us on a couch, |
54 |
coldrain |
"Bloody Power Fame" |
single |
of nominal certainties we cherish for their nominality, not their certainty. |
55 |
ELYELLA |
"Que nada nos pare (lo más importante)" |
single |
This is why, too, systemized faith and organized religion are backwards: |
56 |
Yabai T-Shirts Yasan |
"まじで2分で作った曲" |
ひまわりコンテスト 5 |
productive belief is hyperprovisional, not liturgical, |
57 |
Alice Longyu Gao |
"Believe the Hype (feat. Oli Sykes)" |
single |
written down not to dictate the correct customs of eternal future selves |
58 |
renforshort |
"Julian, king of manhattan" |
single |
but to describe the hilarious quirks of the ones that were only briefly current even then. |
59 |
saoirse dream |
"sellout" |
single |
Legends are thus inherently comic, |
60 |
rouri404 |
"zombie" |
zombie +1 |
whether self-awarely or self-obliviously. |
61 |
tmdistant |
"i don't need a therapist" |
single |
Discovery doesn't consist of putting the things you love into a closed box |
62 |
Ryan Oakes |
"BURNOUT" |
single |
and then waiting to find out which of you will die first. |
63 |
Camp Trash |
"Mind Yr Own" |
The Long Way, The Slow Way |
You can observe and explore mental or emotional spaces from a treadmill, of course. |
64 |
Slowly Slowly |
"Daisy Chain" |
single |
It is you who does or doesn't stay in the box. Schrödinger's sneaky point, maybe, |
65 |
The Front Bottoms |
"More Than It Hurts You" |
single |
is that the boxness of a box is an arbitrary artifact of dimensionality, |
66 |
Rabbit Junk |
"Love Is Hell" |
single |
closed in space but open in time |
67 |
Dav Dralleon |
"Voodoo Shub-Niggurath" |
single |
and love. |
68 |
Hatari |
"Dansið Eða Deyið" |
single |
If you leave your treadmill and run outside, you will pass runners slower than you, |
69 |
Then Comes Silence |
"Tickets to Funerals" |
Hunger |
or wearing less, |
70 |
House of Harm |
"In Threes" |
Feel My Heart Beat / In Threes 2 |
and our bodies are also defined very tangibly in space |
71 |
Transviolet |
"Destroy Destroy Destroy" |
Destroy Destroy Destroy +1 |
and free to vary dramatically over time. |
72 |
Bif Naked |
"Rollerdome" |
single |
You share what you have, |
73 |
MOTHICA |
"NOCTURNAL" |
Nocturnal |
and if that's abdominal muscles then, well, |
74 |
Fresh |
"Our Love" |
Raise Hell |
I appreciate seeing what abdominal muscles look like, |
75 |
Siiickbrain |
"Jealousy" |
single |
and knowing that having them is common enough that there are people like that around me, |
76 |
Pale Waves |
"Jealousy" |
single |
dodging geese along the river at an hour when either of us might have been sleeping. |
77 |
The Darling Fire |
"Clean Hands" |
Clean Hands +1 |
I like seeing what other bodies look like in motion, |
78 |
SKIES |
"Deconstruction" |
single |
and seeing myself in an office facade as I run, |
79 |
Oakman |
"Murder" |
Murder +2 |
and not thinking "that guy needs to wear looser shirts". |
80 |
JuJu Rossi |
"drivin' with the brakes on" |
prehab |
But losing weight is the long way to not feel bad about your shirts, |
81 |
Anna Bergendahl |
"Demons and Dreams" |
single |
and the one that risks missing a critical point, |
82 |
Claire Rosinkranz |
"i'm too pretty for this" |
single |
which is that it is not our job to placate our clothing, |
83 |
instant crush |
"falling" |
single |
or our tastes in music, |
84 |
Lenii |
"Already Famous" |
single |
or our enemies, |
85 |
AViVA |
"THE OUTSiDE" |
single |
or our one-time fears that have Rubik's cubed into gleaming obsessions, |
86 |
HAVEN |
"Too Broke For Therapy" |
Too Broke For Therapy 6 |
or even our one-time aspirations that have gradually attenuated themselves into regrets. |
87 |
Hanna Rua |
"Hold The Light" |
single |
Therapy is less like surgery |
88 |
Rina Sawayama |
"Catch Me In The Air" |
Catch Me In The Air +1 |
than like a song that makes you want to run fast |
89 |
Nerea Rodríguez |
"Malibú" |
single |
and then says "oh, these shoes are your size, what are the odds?" and hands you your own shoes. |
90 |
Shogun |
"holding grudges in the dark" |
single |
Rhetorical questions are a superset of questions, not a subset, |
91 |
Werd (SOS) |
"Complicated" |
Complicated +1 |
and rhetorical answers are another way of saying "talking", |
92 |
CRPNTR |
"Lighthouse" |
single |
and talking is a song waiting for its drum loop, |
93 |
Filthy Gears |
"Macrowave" |
Medicine |
or sometimes vice versa. |
94 |
Elleran Elvis |
"Plesenta" |
Melankolik Serisi |
Exploration isn't a method of reading other people's maps, |
95 |
The Musa |
"Stuck in a Trance (feat. Ziön)" |
SYNESTHESIA 5 |
it's a way of bounding your own knowledge by treating everybody else's familiarities as novel |
96 |
Sudan Archives |
"NBPQ (Topless)" |
NBPQ (Topless) +2 |
until you understand what your own cartography mismaps. |
97 |
Ştiu Nu Ştiu |
"New Sun" |
New Sun |
All the countries you haven't been to are adjacent |
98 |
Conjurer |
"All You Will Remember" |
Páthos |
until you gently draw them apart |
99 |
Mutiara Damansara |
"Car Wreck" |
Pearls |
by falling in love with their post-metal bands |
100 |
Kuggur |
"يَا لَيْلِ" |
single |
and whatever they call it when they wrap non-bread in bread |
101 |
Brutus |
"Dust" |
single |
and what distracts them from being afraid of you. |
102 |
OvO |
"La Morte Muore - Part 2" |
single |
Labels, whether you make them out of concrete |
103 |
Aronious |
"Negeltu" |
single |
or spandex |
104 |
Church of Cthulhu |
"TSOAHPWAA" |
single |
or the names of political parties, |
105 |
Orthodox |
"Past Seers" |
Proceed |
describe you more tellingly the closer you allow them to come to your skin. |
106 |
uMjabulisi |
"KUYABIZA UKUBA YIJONGO" |
single |
Take them off. You are encrusted with layers |
107 |
Nobuhle |
"Imali" |
single |
of non-self. |
108 |
Andile Cele |
"Ngingumhambi Emhlabeni" |
Ngingumhambi Emhlabeni +2 |
All these taxonomies of joys that are or aren't acceptable to experience in public |
109 |
Abangani Bethu |
"Uhayizelani" |
single |
are subsect disputes of a Puritanism that thought the way out of misery was through. |
110 |
Saint Evo |
"Dalalekutuk - Extended Mix" |
single |
Technology will try to sell you this just as relentlessly as religion will. |
111 |
Lotic |
"Come Unto Me (Sparkling)" |
Sparkling Water 4 |
Selling stipulates ownership as a zero-sum metaphysics. |
112 |
Tanya Tagaq |
"In Me - Paola Prestini Remix" |
Tongues North Star Remixes 2 |
Your currencies |
113 |
Nonconnah |
"I-In Brighter Flames Array'd" |
Don't Go Down to Lonesome Holler |
do not bind you, |
114 |
The Proclaimers |
"The World That Was" |
single |
do not describe you. |
115 |
Ronski Speed |
"It's Calling Me - Extended Mix" |
It's Calling Me 2 |
You cannot categorize other people by subsidized opposition. |
116 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) [8-Bit Edison Lighthouse Emulation]" |
By Request, Vol. 182 |
Atheism is a theist myopia, |
117 |
HoodCelebrityy |
"Signs" |
single |
a projection of your wounds onto undamaged skin, |
118 |
Broken Peach |
"YMCA" |
single |
or onto wounds from entirely different blades. |
119 |
Caleb Hyles |
"I'll Make A Man Out Of You" |
single |
If what you have to share is effusive mimicry of other people's shyness, |
120 |
Lauren Babic |
"Stay" |
single |
wear the clothes that bare that. |
121 |
Quintessente |
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" |
single |
Everybody needs to know what unruly skin looks like. |
122 |
Twenty One Two |
"Ghost" |
single |
Tomorrow may not be any better than today, but you can be. |
123 |
Rain Paris |
"E.T." |
single |
Be there when you vibrate. |
124 |
Peach PRC |
"Teenage Dirtbag – Spotify Singles" |
Spotify Singles 2 |
Be there when the people you dream about need to vibrate. |
125 |
Mutiara Damansara |
"Wrecking Ball" |
Pearls |
We've got nowhere to hide, any of us. |
126 |
Cordelia |
"Every Breath You Take / One Last Kiss Mashup" |
single |
Only aliens can be voyeurs. The rest of us are all here in the box together, waving up at them, waiting for the wave function to collapse. |
127 |
SL-R2k |
"As It Was" |
Queen of Hearts 4 |
Every theory you propose is, at best, a yearning explanation of how we will have met, |
128 |
Feed The Biirds |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
in 20 minutes or 37 years. |
129 |
JAY DVRDEN |
"running up that hill (a deal with the devil).exe" |
single |
All portals distort their view. Screens are more honest about this than windows. |
130 |
Cami-Cat |
"Runinng Up That Hill - Orchestral Version" |
single |
If you want to see what anything really looks like, |
131 |
Enemies & Allies |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
you have to be willing to be there when it finds its willingness to show you, |
132 |
Brothel |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
and to let it take off its clothes without trying to sell them to you, |
133 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"Home by Now (8-Bit Muna Emulation)" |
By Request, Vol. 182 |
and then figure out which one of you is going to ask a question that unravels all of the answers you were prepared to share. |