| 1 | Demi Lovato | "CITY OF ANGELS" | HOLY FVCK | It takes courage to keep acting like a normal person when you've become famous. |
| 2 | MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS | "Birds and rhythm" | Awakening:Sleeping | Although at least a person subject to intense public scrutiny has strong incentives to cater to that scrutiny, |
| 3 | CALETWOLF | "STARDUST" | single | so maybe this isn't where courage really goes. |
| 4 | BLACKNAZARENE | "incomplete" | dogmatism 6 | The thing you need to survive fame isn't courage, it's an understanding that the fame is not a quality you have acquired, |
| 5 | NEO JAPONISM | "Fight For The Right" | NEO | but a burden you have been chosen, through whatever combination of chance and your own request, to carry. |
| 6 | Eir Aoi | "Resonance" | HELLO HELLO HELLO | In this way fame is the same as any other temporary role you play, |
| 7 | SAISON | "Nandodemo Konobashode" | Nandodemo Konobashode +3 | from your unfamous job to how you stand alone on an empty street-corner waiting |
| 8 | halca | "reprise" | 誰彼スクランブル / あれこれドラスティック | or not waiting |
| 9 | LOVE PSYCHEDELICO | "A revolution" | single | for lights. |
| 10 | POPPiNG EMO | "Siren" | single | The humane imperative is to embrace the universal implications |
| 11 | WagakkiBand | "キメラ" | ボカロ三昧2 | of your own microstate. |
| 12 | Ulytau | "Aqsaq kiik" | single | You are your own country, |
| 13 | 激情リフレイン | "INEVITABLE" | INEVITABLE +3 | until you agree to be bound by extranational laws, |
| 14 | PRSMIN | "starlight" | single | and then you become a person, |
| 15 | milet | "Clan" | Always You 3 | and the country you were becomes a legend |
| 16 | Leo Ieiri | "Lemon Soda" | single | about vanity and pride. |
| 17 | My Best Friend | "tsubaki" | tsubaki +2 | It takes courage to be normal in the first place, |
| 18 | MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS | "Just" | Awakening:Sleeping | faith in the power of patterns against chaos, |
| 19 | DAIDA LAIDA | "象牙色の嘘" | single | and truth against expedience. |
| 20 | Empress | "Legion" | Fateweaver | Make decisions as if you were you. |
| 21 | Kalah | "The River" | Descent into Human Weakness | Act as if you were you. |
| 22 | ELYSATIUM | "Who We Are" | single | That's the only way any of this ever gets better, |
| 23 | Liliumdust | "Compliant Masks" | Our Deepest Hollows | or stays better. |
| 24 | Avatarium | "Death, Where Is Your Sting" | Death, Where Is Your Sting? 2 | That's the only reason to put off the impatiently awaiting forever. |
| 25 | Kalah | "Crows Calling at Night" | Descent into Human Weakness | Entropy doesn't need your love, |
| 26 | Empress | "Beyond the Sleep" | Fateweaver | and will not reward your fealty, |
| 27 | Wings of Destiny | "Never Surrender" | single | but will greedily accept your capitulation. |
| 28 | Splintered Throne | "The Crossing" | The Greater Good of Man | Maps on the back of your hands draw out your loss |
| 29 | Borealis | "Pray for Water" | single | until it shines into the sky |
| 30 | Oceanhoarse | "Nails" | single | like a beacon meant not to warn of weather |
| 31 | Wolfheart | "The King" | The King +1 | but to invite it. |
| 32 | Candlemass | "Scandinavian Gods" | single | Fame and longitude both appear to converge, |
| 33 | Behemoth | "Thy Becoming Eternal" | Thy Becoming Eternal +3 | appear to be defined by that convergence, |
| 34 | Nordjevel | "Of Rats and Men" | Of Rats and Men +3 | until you stand unchanged at the coordinates of a vertex. |
| 35 | Noctem | "CREDO CERTE NE CRAS" | single | We will not escape geography with geometry, |
| 36 | Sabackthanny | "Setsuna Plus" | single | will not triangulate our way to a portal out of all of this joy and doubt. |
| 37 | Heilung | "Nesso" | Drif | But that is not why we learn to measure, |
| 38 | Träumen von Aurora | "Epiphanie" | Aurora | why we imagine ourselves guided by invisible lines |
| 39 | Träumen von Aurora | "Nicht alle Dunkelheit der Welt" | Luna | and celebrated by whatever lingers most luminously in new darkness. |
| 40 | Russian Circles | "Tupilak" | Gnosis | It is not to escape these boundaries, |
| 41 | halfslug | "Clarity Through Ash" | Hawthorne Effect 3 | it is to build and destroy and build again within them. |
| 42 | SiX BY SiX | "Reason to Feel Calm Again" | SiX BY SiX | It is to believe that entropy can be deferred, |
| 43 | Lonely Robot | "Digital God Machine" | single | pushed back into the void from which it came, |
| 44 | Jason Bieler And The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra | "Flying Monkeys" | Flying Monkeys +3 | towards notional event-horizons. |
| 45 | The Mountain Goats | "Extraction Point" | Bleed Out | We do not organize the allusions of a dream while we're dreaming, |
| 46 | Moderatto | "Inalcanzable" | Rockea Bien Duro | and by the time we are awake the discerning categories we would have used have all been deprecated |
| 47 | FliRt | "Gratify" | No Regrets! | in favor of an informal emergent taxonomy |
| 48 | Zero Pressure | "Strangers" | single | of symbolic regrets |
| 49 | Soft Blue Shimmer | "Prism of Feeling" | single | and shimmery synonymies. |
| 50 | The Darling Fire | "Amber" | Amber +3 | We write songs about things we think we can't escape, |
| 51 | Perfect Average | "It's Okay" | single | meditations for acceptable inevitability, |
| 52 | Spielbergs | "You Can Be Yourself With Me" | Vestli | and then we stand together |
| 53 | Tiny Moving Parts | "Demons Are Taking Over" | single | outside of them, singing. |
| 54 | アルコサイト | "人間失格" | single | We never really have new problems. |
| 55 | The Mountain Goats | "Hostages" | Bleed Out | You don't exactly replace an infinite resource, |
| 56 | Moderatto | "Rebelde" | Rockea Bien Duro | you learn to play through it to your skin. |
| 57 | FliRt | "Reverie" | No Regrets! | You learn to fall in love with people you pass at dawn at speed, |
| 58 | loveyouparadise | "you cannot fix me" | single | and will never see this way again, |
| 59 | Ryan Oakes | "2L8" | BURNOUT | and then you have this surplus of supplies, |
| 60 | Boy Epic | "Issues" | single | and sweat pouring out of you, and the world doesn't stop, |
| 61 | Demi Lovato | "COME TOGETHER" | HOLY FVCK | and we have come to this world together. |
| 62 | LØLØ | "u turn me on (but u give me depression)" | u turn me on (but u give me depression) +3 | It takes a little bit of courage to be excited about that at the same time as afraid, |
| 63 | Lauran Hibberd | "Hot Boys" | Garageband Superstar | but then all the scripted roles become characters you can play |
| 64 | The Beths | "Knees Deep" | Knees Deep +2 | as bravely and honestly as you are willing. |
| 65 | Martha | "Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?" | single | You do not fall out of love, you throw it dramatically to the ground, |
| 66 | Lande Hekt | "Backstreet Snow" | Backstreet Snow +1 | and then you check the footage and realize: |
| 67 | Everdeen | "Fairweather Friend" | single | that the sunlight is coming from the wrong angle, |
| 68 | The Native | "Looking Back" | Looking Back 6 | and the falling love looks more like you tore a static-clung sock from your chest; |
| 69 | Biffy Clyro | "Unknown Male 01 - Edit" | Unknown Male 01 3 | that you forgot to wait until she's far enough past, |
| 70 | The Wombats | "Is This What It Feels Like to Feel Like This?" | single | and now she's poking at an ear trying to get her music to pause |
| 71 | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | "Stars" | single | while she decides if you're having a stroke; |
| 72 | Röyksopp | "Oh, Lover" | Oh, Lover +1 | that the strangers you pass on a run, separated by headphones, |
| 73 | LeBrock | "Running Wild" | single | are no farther or closer than the strangers in your headphones; |
| 74 | Perfect Plan | "If Love Walks In" | single | that strangers are no different from the people you have slept with, |
| 75 | Inqanawe | "Imali yokuza" | Imali yokuza +2 | and can be reached and bound by the shapes of promises |
| 76 | Mtekhala uMaqatha No Dogzin | "Monkey Pox" | single | even when you don't know what you're promising, but are pretty sure it would be less romantic if you did. |
| 77 | Nobuhle | "Jerusalema" | single | It takes courage to keep being human when being human seems to have been so inadequate for so long. |
| 78 | Marisela | "Perdida en Su Mundo" | single | Shouldn't we be better at this by now, |
| 79 | Runhild Gammelsæter | "Hadron Collider" | Higgs Boson | clearer about the mechanisms and constraints? |
| 80 | BLESSED MANE | "Black Road" | single | Pick up the love, it's fine. Throw it with your other hand this time, across your body so the camera can keep the same focal-plane through the whole brief shot. |
| 81 | DIAMANTE | "Running Up That Hill" | single | We do not become immune through negotiated transcendence. |
| 82 | 616 | "Everything Dies" | single | Fall in love like you're still able, and willing, to get back up again afterwards. Leave the love there for other people to fall in. |
| 83 | Spirit Adrift | "Everything Dies" | 20 Centuries Gone | It takes courage to walk around on the fragile surface of this place, a thin layer of constructed composure over sinkholes of love and sewage and fire, |
| 84 | Demi Lovato | "DEAD FRIENDS" | HOLY FVCK | for the rest of our lives. |