1 |
Ardours |
"Insomniac" |
Anatomy of a Moment |
I do not want to sleep. I do not want this song to end. |
2 |
The Spider Accomplice |
"Rebels and Riders" |
single |
I do not want any of these songs to end, even to give way to next week's new songs, |
3 |
Within Temptation |
"Don't Pray For Me" |
Don't Pray For Me |
even knowing that if we ran time backwards I would feel exactly the same. |
4 |
Victoria K |
"Persephone" |
single |
Time is not consumed by songs, it is sustained, |
5 |
Concrete Castles |
"You Won't See Me Again" |
single |
which is both why their economy cannot be quantized in half-minutes, |
6 |
Yours Truly |
"Careless Kind" |
Careless Kind +3 |
and also why duration is probably the best of all the bad options. |
7 |
Metric |
"False Dichotomy" |
Formentera |
If you use generic, artless, joyless, voluminous noises to bulk-waste time, |
8 |
Somehow Jo |
"Fata Morgana" |
single |
the fault is not joy's for its insistence |
9 |
Veil of Mist |
"Death In Your Eyes" |
Death In Your Eyes +1 |
or indivisibility. |
10 |
Infinitum |
"Monster Part 2" |
single |
An expedient moral economy, at least notionally, rewards attention, |
11 |
Sleeping Romance |
"Call My Name" |
single |
but thus flounders on the unmeasurable and fluctuating subjectivity of engagement. |
12 |
Madame Mayhem |
"Inside Out" |
single |
Should this song be worth less if it plays during a long-run segment plagued with wind noise, |
13 |
Blackwater Drowning |
"The Filth Element" |
Sonder//Satori |
or while I'm trying to fix other people's query bugs, |
14 |
Revocation |
"Diabolical Majesty" |
single |
than now, when I'm holding still to see which precipice it's trying to drive me towards? |
15 |
THOUSAND EYES |
"Everlasting Trail" |
single |
The song has not changed. I have not changed very much. |
16 |
DaizyStripper |
"HATSUYUME" |
single |
Billing by transformation is unusably self-referential. |
17 |
coldrain |
"Help Me Help You" |
Nonnegative |
A retributive moral economy might aspire to attach costs to indolences: |
18 |
夕闇に誘いし漆黒の天使達 |
"Good Morning Dead" |
七生活 |
playing songs carelessly is expensive, |
19 |
Zsasz |
"Geimei" |
single |
allowing them to monopolize your love is a gift from listener to notes. |
20 |
AdFicTioN |
"Dawn Light" |
single |
This doesn't lend itself readily to a subscription economy, |
21 |
*Luna |
"アウトサイド - feat. +α/あるふぁきゅん。" |
single |
but nor did it ever to any of our previous iterations of patronage or capital. |
22 |
LYSM |
"無限大Actor" |
single |
We don't know how to value anything other than scarcity, |
23 |
MELON BATAKE A GO GO |
"GO GO MELON THE VICTORY" |
MELONBATAKE A GO GO |
and the only way we know how to value scarcity is absurd. |
24 |
Sayuri |
"Flower tower" |
single |
"Value" is, ultimately, a enticing diversion |
25 |
NightOwl |
"Beyond the Night" |
single |
founded on an implicit self-doubt: |
26 |
halca |
"DareKareScramble" |
single |
we stipulate ourselves as original supplicants |
27 |
Little Lilith |
"Graffiti" |
Graffiti 5 |
and then attempt to explain how to earn humanity by usurious borrowing of nobility |
28 |
TORICAGO |
"HIMAWARI" |
single |
in order to serve it to the entitled. |
29 |
BiS |
"ONCE AGAiN" |
Hey boy hey girl 4 |
This system does not fall apart so much as never achieve coherence in the first place. |
30 |
PLANCK STARS |
"REVOLUTiONiZE" |
single |
If you cannot declare yourself transcendent, nor can anyone else, |
31 |
Li-V-RAVE |
"In the Sky at Night" |
single |
and the space between the stars and the grounded |
32 |
Sonoko Inoue |
"アンビリバボー" |
single |
is a reflective multiplication of a trivial displacement you could cross |
33 |
Nana Mizuki |
"MY ENTERTAINMENT" |
DELIGHTED REVIVER |
by reaching a hand out sideways, instead of trying to fire old plastic into the heart of the sun. |
34 |
Regal Lily |
"Nowaa" |
single |
The urge to exist to serve others is nihilistic, however earnest, |
35 |
クレナズム |
"明日には振り向いてよ" |
single |
and thus we cannot assign wages to labor |
36 |
KOTORI |
"GOLD" |
single |
and then pretend that employment levels gauge our merit |
37 |
Royz |
"gekkou" |
Lync |
or justify our survival. |
38 |
Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
"君を知らない" |
Unity 6 |
If you did not ask to be born, |
39 |
PELICAN FANCLUB |
"ForTune" |
single |
you did not incur any ensuing debts, |
40 |
BugLug |
"ひとりごと。(Hitorigoto.)" |
ひとりごと。(Hitorigoto.) +2 |
nor consent to be implicated in any cynical accounting of attendant costs. |
41 |
Skorn3896 |
"Wait For Me // Make Me Bleed" |
single |
Arguing about how musicians get paid, after you have heard them sing, |
42 |
blackwinterwells |
"480" |
single |
is like hoping to find the landing gear among a crashed plane's debris, |
43 |
shinigami |
"when ur around" |
single |
and then finding, instead, an empty field under a perfect sky, |
44 |
Eredaze |
"We Left It Behind" |
single |
and standing there looking up, hoping helplessly for catastrophe. |
45 |
Kado |
"Empty" |
single |
Problem-solving is a remedial and inadequate response to problem-causing, |
46 |
DYLYN |
"Skin and Bone" |
single |
cycle-perpetuating at best and entropy-hastening at anything less than unattainable best. |
47 |
SayWeCanFly |
"Better Than Before" |
single |
You can't win a war. War is a transliteration of institutionalized loss into ceremonial violence. |
48 |
renforshort |
"hate the way you love me" |
dear amelia |
Past wars are definitional failures, |
49 |
Ca$hrina |
"you got games on your phone?" |
single |
like relationships you have to step outside of to tell whether you belonged in them, |
50 |
Baby Queen |
"Nobody Really Cares" |
single |
or like towers you try to sell before building, |
51 |
PRONOUN |
"roe vs gofvckurself" |
single |
and then, having sold them, try to build without first asking how you will disassemble them when they are complete, |
52 |
Bronnie |
"Death Wish" |
single |
and how you will know when it's time, |
53 |
The Foxies |
"If Life Were A Movie" |
single |
and what time consists of in shared space. |
54 |
Giselle Torres |
"PARANOID" |
single |
By the time the fight starts, the conditions for the fight have become heroically reified, |
55 |
tiLLie |
"luckie" |
single |
and we're left to cheer smugly for costumed champions of whatever we've rendered incompatible. |
56 |
Fleurie |
"Rain In The Summer" |
Rain In The Summer +2 |
And after the fight we have the same problems, plus blood and the compelling distraction of unproductive vengeance. |
57 |
Mise En Scene |
"You Feel Good" |
single |
Unhaving the fight means sharing the responsibility for tracing yourself back, together, to the last point of concurrence. |
58 |
Alvvays |
"Pharmacist" |
single |
Falling in love is reaching this same point via accident and gravity instead of traceable paths, |
59 |
Lande Hekt |
"Gay Space Cadets" |
Gay Space Cadets +1 |
and thus a elision mistaken for a clue, |
60 |
NoSo |
"I Feel You" |
Stay Proud of Me |
and a gathering of community mistaken for a refuge of self-sufficiency. |
61 |
Sabina Ddumba |
"CLOUD 9" |
DEAR 27 pt. 1 5 |
We are marooned in our ethereal solitude, |
62 |
Figure Section |
"Another Sun" |
single |
and solitude is not dispelled by minimal counteraction. |
63 |
Caterina Barbieri |
"Transfixed" |
Spirit Exit |
Each song you hear is not the end of listening, |
64 |
Ola Szmidt |
"For Eric" |
EP3 5 |
but a marshaling of however few gracious minutes of unsilence. |
65 |
Thandi Ntuli |
"Izibongo" |
Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë |
We are not looking for the perfect song, |
66 |
Citizen Deep |
"Umhlaba Wakho (feat. Nkosazana Daughter & Azana)" |
single |
we are learning what it means to sing, |
67 |
Sha Sha |
"Ungowami (feat. Soa mattrix)" |
single |
and thus what it means to be human |
68 |
Homeboyz |
"Phumelela" |
single |
as specifically opposed to not. |
69 |
Los Cabra |
"Jachal" |
single |
The seed of truth in the origin stories of all mythologies is the origin itself, |
70 |
HaZa |
"Horizon" |
single |
our commonality and unavoidable shared fate; |
71 |
Sfarzo Rtee |
"Messenger" |
House Of Sgija |
the vine of discord that we cultivate from it |
72 |
Da Muziqal Chef |
"Obrigado" |
single |
is the clerical notion that we may become properly reconciled to division |
73 |
KOKOKO! |
"Polo Muneni" |
Elongi na Elongi 2 |
through a self-righteous assignation of heraldry to our thus-named enemies. |
74 |
E-An-Na |
"Toropeală" |
single |
When you reconcile with one enemy, |
75 |
Andile Cele |
"Namhlanjena Lizwakele" |
single |
look around you. |
76 |
End Street |
"Maalala Mo Sana" |
single |
If there are other people left, |
77 |
Sündflut |
"Fünf vor 12" |
single |
repeat the process. |
78 |
Betonkust |
"9000 Tears" |
single |
If you play one perfect song |
79 |
Unherz |
"Finde deine Flügel" |
Sinnkrise |
and the universe is not yet also perfect, |
80 |
Volver Al Origen |
"Volver al Origen" |
single |
play the next one |
81 |
Zero Pressure |
"Running" |
single |
and try to pay closer attention. |
82 |
Mayday Parade |
"Thunder" |
Thunder +1 |
We are not yet stronger than storms, |
83 |
Darkswoon |
"Eaten by Wolves" |
single |
not yet free of the lycanthropic urge to treat survival |
84 |
Soft Kill |
"Always Running" |
single |
as a tenuous individualism, |
85 |
Palm Ghosts |
"World Dissolve" |
World Dissolve +1 |
not yet better than these rocks over which we are a scarcely detectable sheen, |
86 |
The Faim |
"madly, badly, fixed" |
Talk Talk |
not yet unbroken, |
87 |
Nathan Wagner |
"Creative Mind" |
single |
not yet probably clear about what it means to be broken |
88 |
SelloRekt / LA Dreams |
"This Is The Life" |
HindSight |
and also hopeful, |
89 |
Timecop1983 |
"The Quiet Life" |
single |
not yet sure when to listen harder |
90 |
The Midnight |
"Avalanche" |
Avalanche +2 |
or how to listen less like falling, |
91 |
a-ha |
"I'm In" |
single |
or how to mistake your memories for a person. |
92 |
Hunter Hayes |
"Missing You" |
single |
That sound? That's your heart that's breaking, |
93 |
Sub-Radio |
"1990something" |
single |
but sometimes that's the only way to get it open. |
94 |
Journey |
"Don't Go" |
Freedom |
Some days the only things we're sure about are the things you shouldn't do: |
95 |
Tdw |
"The More We Remember" |
The Antithetic Affiliation (The Idealist) |
leaving, giving up, unbelieving, forgetting, being afraid to forget. |
96 |
Manga Saint Hilare |
"Cammy Riddim Freestyle" |
single |
Discarding entropy is the long way to order, |
97 |
Shatta Wale |
"Cold Store" |
single |
but we have songs enough for the long ways. |
98 |
Tom Vek |
"New Guilty Pleasure" |
single |
We need not apologize for slow journeys |
99 |
Emo Kid |
"на твоих руках" |
I'II NEVER CRY 4 |
through unfamiliar towns, |
100 |
Arda Gezer |
"Risk" |
Episode 2 |
because our journey is also their journey. |
101 |
WARGASM (UK) |
"Fukstar" |
Fukstar +1 |
All of these towns are ours. |
102 |
Angusraze |
"TOUCH MY SIDE" |
single |
Their skin is ours. |
103 |
ERRA |
"Pull From The Ghost" |
single |
The questions they think define them are how we got our names. |
104 |
Second To Sun |
"North Metal Legion" |
single |
Their flags are cloth, |
105 |
The Sluagh |
"I bhFolach EXT - Enivid Creatures Bonus Track" |
single |
their songs are songs, |
106 |
Homeskin |
"Dripping Chalice" |
Life's Wishes to Tears |
their blood is ours, |
107 |
Wormrot |
"Broken Maze" |
Hiss |
our twisting ways are entwined. |
108 |
Imperial Triumphant |
"Tower of Glory, City of Shame" |
single |
Entwining is how the ways became twisted into shining empires |
109 |
Panzerfaust |
"The Far Bank at the River Styx" |
The Far Bank at the River Styx +1 |
and dark realms, |
110 |
Soul Dissolution |
"The Absolving Tide" |
single |
and patient repeated unraveling is how we untwist them, |
111 |
Aldaaron |
"Arcane Mountain Cult" |
single |
how we become undevoted to our makeshift remotenesses. |
112 |
UZLAGA |
"Warhorns Cry As The World Waves Goodbye" |
THE MIGHT OF WAVES |
Days spent learning how to fight, |
113 |
The HU |
"Black Thunder" |
Black Thunder +2 |
accompanied by pragmatic battle anthems, |
114 |
HYMALAYA |
"Anwealda" |
single |
are black noise instead of white, |
115 |
Sagason |
"The Vanir" |
The Vanir +1 |
but songless noise does not become the hue |
116 |
Bjarla |
"Новый конунг" |
single |
of a new king's court |
117 |
EIRLYS |
"Fairy Light" |
single |
through magic or prisms or decree. |
118 |
Dronny Darko |
"The Infinity Bell Pt. 1" |
Dissolving into Solitary Landscapes |
This is not the fault of light, nor of the days we divide light into. |
119 |
Kali Malone |
"Living Torch I" |
Living Torch |
Light is not omitted by songs, it's modulated into elation. |
120 |
NinDjent0 |
"Lavender Town" |
single |
We do not exist to serve others. |
121 |
Rain Paris |
"Middle Of The Night - Nightcore Version" |
single |
There are no others. |
122 |
Caleb Hyles |
"What Else Can I Do?" |
single |
We multiply. Our songs exponentiate. Our power compounds. |
123 |
Master Sword |
"Come Sail Away" |
single |
The angels aren't coming with a spaceship, |
124 |
Broken Peach |
"Firework" |
single |
that's only another rock that just traced a burning arc through the sky to land smoldering at your feet. |
125 |
Tate Logan |
"Jessie's Girl" |
single |
Where can you find a rock like that? You're standing on it. |
126 |
Halocene |
"Under Pressure" |
single |
The universe spun and mashed it all together for us and the spiders, |
127 |
Halocene |
"Livin' On A Prayer" |
single |
and we've only halfway made the case that the spiders shouldn't have it to themselves. |
128 |
Cimorelli |
"Running up That Hill - Slow Version" |
single |
But do you want to hear about the deal I'm proposing? |
129 |
Becko |
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" |
single |
It's with you. It's this: we imagine what would happen if we swapped our places, |
130 |
Last Motion Picture |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
and then we keep working until we know that we could, any of us, and we wouldn't be unhappy. |