| 1 | ZAND | "Battery Acid" | single | Triumph and failure, |
| 2 | Conscious Route | "Portals" | Portals +2 | like most nominal opposites, |
| 3 | Tzusan | "Pink Moscato" | single | are complementary and overlapping perspectives on a reality that doesn't share our need for simplified labeling. |
| 4 | Manga Saint Hilare | "Kendall & Kylie" | single | Thus money doesn't make you happy, |
| 5 | Flowdan | "Raise Up" | single | but also happiness is not an absence of pain or sadness, |
| 6 | Shatta Wale | "King of Kings" | single | love not the opposite of loneliness, |
| 7 | OSTON | "20 Nothing" | 20 Nothing +3 | the future not a universe detached from the past. |
| 8 | Maggie Rogers | "Shatter" | Surrender | Whatever they claim they can sell you, |
| 9 | Leah Kate | "Life Sux" | Life Sux +2 | once you buy it it becomes you. |
| 10 | Sofia Carson | "I Hate the Way" | Purple Hearts | If you hate yourself now, |
| 11 | Bre Kennedy | "Ribbon" | single | you have the power to hate yourself in newer clothes. |
| 12 | Brenna Bone | "I Don't Deserve You" | single | But of course, it works other way, too. |
| 13 | Shania Twain | "Not Just A Girl" | Not Just A Girl (The Highlights) | You are not just anything, |
| 14 | Maggie Rogers | "Overdrive" | Surrender | not the most seemingly obvious qualities |
| 15 | Perfume | "マワルカガミ" | PLASMA | nor the secrets that feel most inextricably and incurably hidden. |
| 16 | Dance Gavin Dance | "Holy Ghost Spirit" | Jackpot Juicer | Your elusive ghost haunts your movements within this space of explanations and forgivenesses, |
| 17 | Black Magnet | "A History of Drowning" | Body Prophecy | spewing threats in response to its imprisonment. |
| 18 | River | "Call It The Day" | Luta De Vida 6 | You would be angry, too, if you were trapped in this many layers of spurious mortality |
| 19 | Dance Gavin Dance | "Current Events" | Jackpot Juicer | and unintentional grace. |
| 20 | Frayle | "Bright Eyes" | single | But you can be euphoric, too, amidst maelstroms |
| 21 | Brutus | "Liar" | Liar +1 | and against backdrops of fire or fear, |
| 22 | Edenbridge | "The Call of Eden" | The Call of Eden +2 | and measuring the boundary of heaven. |
| 23 | The Erinyes | "Betrayed" | single | Vengeance is a delusion formed in the absence of introspection. |
| 24 | Crystal Gates | "Alive for the Journey" | Torment & Wonder: The Ways of the Lonely Ones | You won't heal your own heart |
| 25 | Ranthiel | "Sleeping sun" | single | by any change to other hearts, |
| 26 | Alwaid | "Alghavil Altannin" | Lacus Somniorum | including reducing their number. |
| 27 | OU | "Farewell" | one | You do not become gods, |
| 28 | Vermilia | "Tuonen Joki" | single | you make a more-eternal kingdom out of just these rocks and this air. |
| 29 | Daedric | "Only" | Only +3 | There is nothing else, |
| 30 | ANOTHERKIND | "Aerials" | single | and though every day will eventually seem incomprehensibly primitive, |
| 31 | Anly | "Alive" | single | so too will each day have been enough. We do not incur preemptive debts for our potential |
| 32 | Rei Yasuda | "風の中" | single | or our hope. |
| 33 | ReoNa | "JAMMER" | シャル・ウィ・ダンス?(Special Edition) | There is time to play b-sides, |
| 34 | the pullovers | "なんでもないルーティーン" | single | and any of these songs can change everything: |
| 35 | Broken my toybox | "青くなくとも" | single | lives by being sung, lives by being heard, lives by being shared. |
| 36 | yama | "くびったけ" | single | Or maybe none of these songs changes any of those things. |
| 37 | RAINASH | "Break of Dawn" | single | Maybe our songs are the discarded exuviae of hope |
| 38 | LEIWAN | "Start line" | single | that we leave behind by our constant tiny transformations, |
| 39 | 前島麻由 | "NO MAN'S DAWN" | ENDING THEME FROM TV SERIES ”OVERLORD IV” 4 | most of them silent |
| 40 | MiiS | "脳内スラム (Nounai Slam)" | single | and thus the loud ones misunderstood. |
| 41 | POPPiNG EMO | "Spring wonder" | single | The gift of cyclicity is not exoneration for the errors you have made, |
| 42 | KAQRIYOTERROR | "Pity pantomime" | Ensemble Berserk | but a magnanimous invitation to make new ones |
| 43 | Appare! | "gekisou ensemble" | single | in rapturously transient media. |
| 44 | Reasons | "My light, Your light" | My light, Your light +3 | The light passes overhead, |
| 45 | GANGDEMIC | "EVERGREEN" | DEPARTURES | scouring us from the scalp onwards |
| 46 | Asunojokei | "Heavenward" | Island | until we are burned a more appealing color |
| 47 | Grima | "Gloomy Heart of the Coldest Land" | Frostbitten | without ever learning how to fly any closer to it. |
| 48 | Firtan | "Amor Fati" | single | We can forget all of this tomorrow, |
| 49 | ColdWorld | "Walz" | single | or whenever we are ready. |
| 50 | Woewarden | "The Name Of Suffering" | single | We do not bring about the dawn by an assiduous application of misery to darkness, |
| 51 | Gaerea | "Mantle" | Mantle +1 | but it's just as wrong to imagine that nothing we do in darkness matters in light. |
| 52 | Hadal Maw | "Scourge of Iron" | single | Gods fall, temples survive. |
| 53 | Ars Onirica | "Daydream" | single | Their floorplans become insignia, |
| 54 | Breathelast | "Ne ajunge nimic" | single | first for new squatter sects among their ruins, |
| 55 | Brymir | "Herald of Aegir" | Herald of Aegir +1 | later for the psychogeography of outliving the illusions of providence |
| 56 | Sahg | "Fall into the Fire" | Fall into the Fire +2 | and corruptions. |
| 57 | Dragonland | "Flight from Destruction" | Flight from Destruction +1 | Streets are made of rubble, |
| 58 | Danheim | "Ulvekald" | single | some of it imported from the past with archaeological diffidence, |
| 59 | Zbava | "Velesovo" | single | some of it preserved from the future in anticipatory benediction. |
| 60 | Nebala | "In Rauranī" | Lustuz Laþu Wōþuz Alu | Our worst cosmologies present dualities as antipodes, |
| 61 | Tanxugueiras | "Arica" | Diluvio | and thus caricature causality as a discipline. |
| 62 | Bastille | "Revolution" | single | The quiet, unnamed revolutions outnumber the ones declared, |
| 63 | Gregory Dillon | "Crystalized" | single | but grab your bag of names, |
| 64 | Fury Weekend | "Real Love" | Real Love +2 | we're going out tonight. |
| 65 | A.N.G.E.L.E.S. | "Máquina del Tiempo" | single | Holding your breath from here to that corner is a time machine. |
| 66 | Cats in Space | "King Of Stars" | Kickstart The Sun | Imaginary dominions are generation ships. |
| 67 | A Projection | "Careless" | single | The first synthesizers sounded like synthesizers; |
| 68 | Golden Apes | "From the Sky" | From the Sky | this song reminds you of something; |
| 69 | Luster | "Thorn In Yr Kiss" | Thorn In Yr Kiss +1 | learning to hear begins with learning to forget |
| 70 | Seasick | "Missing You" | single | the shards of old songs that get in the way of hearing the new ones, |
| 71 | Huecco | "Los Tesoros Imposibles (con Rulo)" | single | but of course that's not how hearing actually works. |
| 72 | Ainoa Buitrago | "cómo cuándo y dónde" | single | The singer and the guitar and the drum all move the same air. |
| 73 | Eytan | "Bırak Beni" | single | The songs you would never have heard are different from the ones you could not have avoided, |
| 74 | Aslı | "Dostun Bahçasına Bir Hoyrat Girmiş" | single | but only before you hear them. |
| 75 | Aiitee | "Confidence" | single | Afterwards, you are Scottish and Nigerian and whatever else you were already. |
| 76 | Bukeka | "Imimoya" | single | Triumph and failure are just words in a language |
| 77 | Citizen Deep | "Bheki's Prayer (feat. Just Bheki)" | ARCADE 2 | invented by people who thought of themselves as victims, |
| 78 | Darksidevinyl | "Izegbe" | single | except their word for "victim" was "chosen". |
| 79 | Malumz on Decks | "Phumelela" | Phumelela +1 | Whatever they claim they can sell you |
| 80 | uQhoshangokwenzakwakhe | "Uwedwa" | Tears of Joy | are exported souvenirs from ruins that were once churches |
| 81 | AMA-AK47 | "Bayede Nkosi" | Bayede Nkosi | and now subsist on wearyingly simplistic tourism |
| 82 | Son of Africa | "Zimbini-Bambelela" | single | next to invigoratingly complicated cities. |
| 83 | Sihle Msomi | "Bongani Ujehova" | Bongani Ujehova | Songs of lost glory are also songs of relief. |
| 84 | uQhoshangokwenzakwakhe | "Tears of Joy" | Tears of Joy | If you are not responsible for the administration of vanished empires, |
| 85 | Caroline Shaw | "Limestone & Felt" | single | maybe you do not have to explain all your own dreams by morning. |
| 86 | Hinako Omori | "Ocean - Patricia Wolf Remix" | a journey with friends... | Maybe your task for today is only to live enough that tonight's dreams could be different, |
| 87 | Purity Ring | "x inovein" | shrines X | that tomorrow's world could follow from today's with some tiny fractional degree of freedom. |
| 88 | Exilia | "Blinding Lights" | single | Judgment is a conceit formed in the absence of purpose. |
| 89 | Rock Emo Nightcore | "Call Me Maybe" | single | You offer your soul in trade for a wish, |
| 90 | Violet Orlandi | "B.Y.O.B." | single | and they say that wishes are temporarily out of stock, but we have these hypnotic computers, freshly refurbished, |
| 91 | First to Eleven | "Fat Lip" | single | ready to waste your time. |
| 92 | First Aid Kit | "The Boys of Summer" | single | We are the ones left here after the gods have sold out of miracles and gone. |
| 93 | Nasty Ratz | "Heat of the Moment" | single | Our teenage ambitions are a little vague now, honestly. |
| 94 | The Linda Lindas | "Tonite" | single | Something about billboards and getting dressed up and streets. |
| 95 | Jack Bradley | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | single | I guess we still have all of those things, and synthesizers sound like synthesizers again because it turned out to be cheaper to steal guitars than to simulate them. But they still all move the same air. |
| 96 | Our Last Night | "Running Up That Hill" | OLN Goes 80's 2 | We thought that the thing we had to do was get to the top of somewhere and offer something irreplaceable in exchange for something impossible from someone invisible; that that was what the songs were about, the triumph or failure of these ardent ascents. But we get to the top of the hill and there's no ethereal bazaar of redemption, no last night, no finality. It's just a hill with a road leading up it. As a song, it was glorious. As a destination, it's underwhelming. The road is more interesting than the hill, really, if we aren't running too fast to notice. And we're tired from the running, and there's nothing up here. So we turn around and walk back down to everything: songs, people, roads, the unresolved, all still waiting there expectantly where we left them, knowing we would return, hoping. |