1 |
Emma Hewitt |
"INTO MY ARMS" |
INTO MY ARMS +1 |
Secret codes are never lost, only found. |
2 |
Demi Lovato |
"SUBSTANCE" |
SUBSTANCE +1 |
There are days when I need to hear a random thing from my childhood, |
3 |
P!nk |
"Irrelevant" |
single |
"Children of the Sun" or "Find Another Fool" or some other half-memory I want to render briefly whole again, |
4 |
Eat Your Heart Out |
"Sour" |
Sour +1 |
but that's less nostalgic than a combination of curious and forgetful, |
5 |
Yours Truly |
"Bruises" |
is this what i look like? |
not a retreat but a looping kind of step-retracing forwards. |
6 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" |
Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome +1 |
The things I first loved most strongly are deeply embedded, |
7 |
Avantasia |
"The Moonflower Society" |
The Moonflower Society +1 |
and play in my head without requiring external accompaniment. |
8 |
Kaledon |
"The Eye of the Storm" |
single |
Comfort, when I need it, comes more readily from revisiting later things, |
9 |
Arch Enemy |
"In the Eye of the Storm" |
single |
music that I know I love, but feel like I haven't yet loved fully, |
10 |
Naufragant |
"The Black Corsair" |
A Short Life |
songs that suggest I could still have more first loves, |
11 |
Vaasa Palaa |
"hvrmvvtv" |
single |
that the whole span between birth and death is all a first life. |
12 |
Here on Earth |
"Drzewo i Kwiat" |
single |
Mostly this is Burn the Sky Down, Emma Hewitt's 2012 solo album. |
13 |
Lucifer Ascending |
"Tetragrammaton" |
single |
Hewitt is usually a trance guest-vocalist, and I like her fine in that role, |
14 |
A Sound of Thunder |
"The Wizard of Crow County" |
single |
but Burn the Sky Down is another thing entirely, |
15 |
Allen/Olzon |
"Army of Dreamers" |
single |
haunting and mutedly anthemic, |
16 |
Graveshadow |
"Shadow Battles" |
The Uncertain Hour |
EDM in lineage but songwriterly in presence, |
17 |
Icon For Hire |
"Breakdown" |
single |
made of spells I want to feel linger. |
18 |
Roses Unread |
"Fireflies" |
Fireflies +2 |
Every collaboration she has done in the ensuing decade, |
19 |
LOST NEBULA |
"Technophobia" |
single |
however much I've enjoyed it, |
20 |
Zsasz |
"Dark Hero" |
Dark Hero +3 |
has left me wishing she would make another album of her own. |
21 |
Underbeasty |
"after life" |
single |
She has. |
22 |
POPPiNG EMO |
"Parasite Single" |
single |
She has been making a new album. Apparently it has been made. It exists. "INTO MY ARMS" is the first single. |
23 |
TENRIN |
"リザレクション" |
天生輪廻 |
It came out last Friday. On Fridays I make a long playlist of that week's new releases I want to hear, |
24 |
RAY |
"moment" |
single |
and then Saturday morning I usually go for the long run in my weekly running cadence |
25 |
リリスリバース |
"Tenohira" |
Best wishes |
and thus begin my new listening week. |
26 |
Machico |
"LIVING DAYLIGHTS" |
single |
"Long" for me, these days, is a half-marathon length, which takes me about two hours. |
27 |
Maki Ohguro |
"SPARKLE" |
SPARKLE +2 |
"INTO MY ARMS" was the first track, as it is still, and if you want to hear it the way I heard it first, |
28 |
Naked Identity Created by King |
"Bad Trip" |
BAD TRIP |
let it finish and then rewind it, preferably using bluetooth earbuds on which rewind is an awkward triple-click, |
29 |
塞壬唱片-MSR |
"因變量" |
綠野幻夢OST 3 |
extra awkward while in physical motion |
30 |
Yuki Hayashi |
"Awaking YUKI HAYASHI feat. Ayasa" |
Awaking YUKI HAYASHI feat. Ayasa +2 |
and emotional rapture. |
31 |
Shiva |
"Sen no ideology" |
Sen no ideology +1 |
It's perfect, it's serenely whole, |
32 |
Yandere |
"winter solace" |
single |
and yet I would rather hear it start again than give way to silence, |
33 |
rouri404 |
"cant lose what u never had" |
single |
or the since-deleted song that originally came after it here. |
34 |
poptropicaslutz! |
"something about the sky" |
something about the sky +2 |
It's electronic, dramatic, surging, |
35 |
dynastic |
"the actor" |
the actor +1 |
but not dance music; a sad song of hope |
36 |
killfuji |
"frustration" |
single |
or an optimist's suspended lament; |
37 |
Sepha. |
"these predators" |
single |
a single thought formed into a living shape. |
38 |
Hearteyes |
"METAL FLAKE" |
single |
The drums move in sparks, like neurons rehearsing a belief, |
39 |
zarya |
"VFTS" |
VFTS 5 |
instead of a heartbeat. |
40 |
The Beths |
"Expert In A Dying Field" |
Expert In A Dying Field +1 |
It is not a song about how our beliefs become ardent and self-propelling, |
41 |
Hot Milk |
"I Fell in Love With Someone I Shouldn't Have" |
I Fell in Love With Someone I Shouldn't Have +2 |
it is a song about how we organize the tension between anticipation and dependency. |
42 |
Maggie Lindemann |
"you're not special" |
you're not special +3 |
I can't sing it, it's not in my range, |
43 |
Boh Doran |
"Robot Girl" |
Robot Girl 6 |
and I try not to sing along with my headphones while running through a populated city anyway, |
44 |
Haywood |
"Closer" |
Pressure On My Heart |
and it's not my story, I don't want to wrap it around myself, |
45 |
IAN SWEET |
"DIE A MILLION TIMES" |
STAR STUFF 4 |
I just want to be there as it is told, |
46 |
The Churchhill Garden |
"Always There" |
single |
and again, and again, |
47 |
St. Lucia |
"Touch" |
single |
until longing becomes a muscle |
48 |
Palace |
"Too Old for This" |
One 4 the Road |
that we use to hold the planet together by encircling it, |
49 |
David Bisbal |
"Tú Me Delatas" |
single |
because where else would we go? |
50 |
Leia Destruye |
"Madera Mojada" |
single |
And what else would we want? |
51 |
Mei Emrys |
"Olwyn Uwchben y Dŵr" |
Olwyn Uwchben y Dŵr / 29 2 |
I played it for about half the run, and then finally let the playlist uncoil |
52 |
The Wedding Present |
"We Interrupt Our Programme - Single Version" |
We Interrupt Our Programme 2 |
into the rest of the waiting week, |
53 |
Silversun Pickups |
"Scared Together" |
single |
and the next Harborwalk turn, |
54 |
The Dangerous Summer |
"Someday" |
Someday +2 |
not because an hour was too much, but because |
55 |
Archers Of Loaf |
"In the Surface Noise" |
single |
the thing about yearnings is that they can coexist. |
56 |
Sloan |
"Spend the Day" |
single |
It's not an only-you song, not a waiting song, not heartbreak. |
57 |
The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness |
"In the Right" |
single |
The heart does not break from use. |
58 |
Hallelujah The Hills |
"Superglued To You" |
single |
You can be sure of this after the first hour of a two-hour run. |
59 |
Sam Fender |
"Alright" |
single |
I didn't use to be able to run for two hours. |
60 |
Johnny Orlando |
"leave the light on" |
single |
You start by running for one minute. |
61 |
Johnny Dynamite and the Bloodsuckers |
"The Last Ones" |
single |
You start by loving one song you heard on the radio in your parents' car, |
62 |
Kill Shelter |
"Time Will Come" |
Asylum |
and then one day you realize that music is in infinite, |
63 |
Vandal Moon |
"Sweet Disaster" |
single |
that you can't listen to it faster than it is made. |
64 |
Ásgeir |
"Snowblind" |
single |
This playlist is six hours long, which is more time than I spend running in a week, |
65 |
CASISDEAD |
"Traction Control" |
single |
even if I played each song only once, and already knew that these were the songs I wanted to keep, |
66 |
Brothel |
"Us and Them" |
single |
wanted to imagine I will remember. |
67 |
BLESSED MANE |
"Monster" |
single |
The first minute passes. If your first-ever minute of running is like mine was, it passes agonizingly and barely. |
68 |
Andromida |
"Savage World" |
single |
It is not your goal to perfect it. |
69 |
Stömb |
"The Altered" |
single |
You do not learn to love by perfecting a single loss, |
70 |
Disturbed |
"Hey You" |
single |
or by choosing one emotional idealized future. |
71 |
Mantar |
"Egoisto" |
Pain is Forever and This is the End |
Joy and loss sing together. |
72 |
Nephilim |
"Crown Of The Beggar" |
single |
A perfect song's perfection is not a function of your devotion, |
73 |
Foraoisí gan Iniúchadh |
"The Abyss" |
single |
or any other songs' submission, |
74 |
Aethyrien |
"Odensjakt, The Wild Hunt" |
single |
but a quality you can learn to hear everywhere: |
75 |
Rachika Nayar |
"Nausea" |
Nausea +2 |
in songs that offer to give your heart a break, in songs with which you use to dance your baby to sleep, |
76 |
Emeka Ogboh |
"Wole" |
single |
in pealing Australian pop-punk and people that have shrouded depths but also gleaming surfaces, |
77 |
Hanna Lindgren |
"Love in Reverse" |
single |
in songs that make you think "these guys sound like Magnum" until you get home and check the credits and realize it's Catley himself singing, |
78 |
Concepción Huerta |
"Melancholy In Time" |
Harmonies from Betelgeuse |
in storms and seas and forests and darkness and lights, |
79 |
Oren Ambarchi |
"I" |
single |
in fast roars and quiet evasions, |
80 |
Erland Cooper |
"Music For Growing Flowers - Pt. 6" |
single |
in life. |
81 |
Dandara |
"Fuentes" |
single |
You can wait for the seas and the stars to issue directions, |
82 |
Stabhilithi |
"Imnandi'intshebe" |
Imnand'intshebe 3 |
but they're just as likely to switch places without divulging either of their origins. |
83 |
Emma Hewitt |
"INTO MY ARMS" |
INTO MY ARMS +1 |
Secret codes are never lost, only found. |
84 |
Rain Paris |
"Daisy" |
single |
Moonflowers grow mostly on earth. |
85 |
Halocene |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
If you can learn how to fall in love, and how to appreciate this momentum in others, |
86 |
Avec Sans |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
then you can stop cataloguing things that other people will bring back to you as gifts. |
87 |
Annapantsu |
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" |
single |
If you can learn to run for five minutes, then time is released. |
88 |
Karliene |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
"Miss You Paradise" is already the answer, ten years ago, to "INTO MY ARMS". |
89 |
Ni/Co's Covers |
"running up that hill - sad version" |
single |
We stay, or we leave; these places are already the same. |
90 |
Hello Stranger |
"Running up That Hill" |
single |
Not a retreat but a looping kind of step-retracing forwards: |
91 |
Loveless |
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" |
single |
more first loves, leading us back, up, onwards. |