1 |
Tenille Townes |
"The Last Time" |
single |
I almost don't make it out of the first verse. |
2 |
Paula Mattheus |
"Efímera" |
single |
I've liked a bunch of Tenille Townes' other songs, but I don't hold them close enough |
3 |
Tasché |
"Sal Jy Vir My Wag" |
single |
to the edge of my memory to believe that I know where she's going |
4 |
Pastora Soler |
"Lo que siempre me callé" |
single |
with this story of a kid getting dropped off for school |
5 |
Sofia Ellar |
"Primero de Escalera" |
Libre |
in a song called "The Last Time" |
6 |
Irene-Louise Van Wyk |
"Beheer Verloor" |
single |
written in whatever state of mind but |
7 |
Ha*Ash |
"Demasiado para Ti" |
Haashtag |
released into the first pings of what I guess will still be autumn |
8 |
Dvicio |
"Del 92" |
single |
in this endless, however earnestly renumbered, many-year year. |
9 |
Viva Suecia |
"Lo Siento" |
single |
I'm not going to tell you whether to trust her. |
10 |
Morat |
"506" |
single |
I'm not going to tell you what that trust would imply: |
11 |
Richard Marx |
"Shame On You" |
single |
a confidence that she will lead us along lit paths, |
12 |
Die Heuwels Fantasties |
"C'est La Vie" |
C'est La Vie |
or a faith that she will lead us all the way through dark ones. |
13 |
VV |
"Echolocate Your Love" |
single |
This is what we never know about each other, |
14 |
Lesbian Bed Death |
"The Antichrist" |
single |
the third or the seventh of the uncountable things we are always still learning: |
15 |
My Own Ghost |
"Shadow In Your Room" |
single |
what fates we believe ourselves to deserve |
16 |
The Darling Fire |
"Hers" |
Hers 5 |
in stories. |
17 |
HEXED |
"Stigma Diaboli - Radio Edit" |
single |
This is how theologies allow themselves to become mired in guilt, |
18 |
NOILION |
"Break All Chains" |
single |
or free themselves for allegory. |
19 |
Carpathia |
"Low Tides" |
single |
We are at our most obtuse and pedantic |
20 |
Gallia |
"Return of Time" |
Obscura |
when we attempt to measure a journey |
21 |
Sede Vacante |
"Dead New World" |
single |
by where we are when we think it's over. |
22 |
Ranthiel |
"Je Veux Vivre" |
single |
All of these waypoints are more beginning than end, |
23 |
Pin Up Went Down |
"Porcelain Hours" |
342 |
like all steps are falling. |
24 |
Pimm's |
"FANGS" |
RELIGHT 5 |
All of these voyages keep us out of the domains |
25 |
INUWASI |
"Fike in the light" |
Fike in the light +1 |
where we feel responsible, |
26 |
グデイ |
"LastDays of August" |
single |
like none of these months are ever so far away, |
27 |
POPPiNG EMO |
"Mantra" |
single |
but is this denial of the world we have, |
28 |
buGG |
"Koino Dead Heat" |
Koino Dead Heat +2 |
or a stubborn wish for a better one? |
29 |
Noboru |
"ゼロになって feat. 夏色花梨" |
single |
Maybe I think I know, without translating anything other than the pronouns and verb endings, |
30 |
Superfly |
"Presence" |
single |
that these airy Japanese pixie-anthems |
31 |
Kumi Koda |
"Wings" |
single |
are not grim tragedies, |
32 |
Seiko Oomori |
"前説ADvance" |
single |
but isn't that what we ought to want? |
33 |
yama |
"ライカ" |
Versus the night |
A world in which we can smile at strangers |
34 |
Atomic Skipper |
"アンセムソング" |
single |
without fear of triggering their baited trauma? |
35 |
MindaRyn |
"My Journey" |
single |
Every heritage monument displaced something. |
36 |
FantasticYouth |
"青ノ栞歌" |
single |
We could write the characters lining up to indignantly protest |
37 |
Poppin'Party |
"夏に閉じこめて" |
夏に閉じこめて +1 |
at the compulsory community meeting for the proposal to put an ocean in the |
38 |
THE ORCHESTRA TOKYO |
"STRiNGS" |
STRiNGS +1 |
deep, dead space between leery continents: |
39 |
ofulover |
"運命" |
single |
the regional managers from the international shipping companies, |
40 |
Good Grief |
"July" |
single |
explaining the treasures they will be able to more easily bring to you, |
41 |
Concrete Castles |
"Lucky" |
single |
by which they mean near enough to you that you could touch them |
42 |
flor |
"Every Night" |
Every Night +3 |
with an NFC beam; |
43 |
bis |
"Lucky Night" |
single |
the stern ecologists decrying the callous destruction of the dry, |
44 |
Tove Styrke |
"Another Broken Heart" |
HARD |
majestic habitats of the desert-trench octopi; |
45 |
instant crush |
"karma (is patient)" |
single |
the octopi themselves, |
46 |
Dentist |
"New Dress" |
Making a Scene |
arriving inconveniently moist from their swimming lessons, |
47 |
Editors |
"Vibe" |
Vibe +3 |
explaining what their legends say about change and salt; |
48 |
The Soft Moon |
"Monster" |
Monster +3 |
you and me, |
49 |
Deine Cousine |
"Nix Neues (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)" |
single |
on a barely-padded bench in the back left, |
50 |
Luukas Oja |
"Lootusasentoon" |
single |
trying to guess what each person lined up to speak |
51 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"Alive now" |
Alive now +3 |
is going to reveal about themselves |
52 |
Main-De-Gloire |
"One Step Closer" |
One Step Closer +1 |
is the process of trying to explain the broken and silent world |
53 |
The Untold |
"Albatross" |
Thunder and Water : Act One |
aloud. |
54 |
Queensrÿche |
"Behind the Walls" |
single |
I'm not going to tell you whether they approve the ocean in the end. |
55 |
House Of Lords |
"Saints and Sinners" |
single |
This is what we rarely remember, as we watch other people confront their own opportunities |
56 |
Opera Magna |
"Where Once Was Beating My Dark Heart" |
Where Once Was Beating My Dark Heart +2 |
for grandeur or grief: |
57 |
The HU |
"Bii Biyelgee" |
Rumble Of Thunder |
we are at our most human and serene |
58 |
Helisir |
"Ritual" |
Ritual +1 |
when we think we are allowed to react with joy |
59 |
Bjorth |
"Mat Zemlya" |
Mat Zemlya +1 |
to these inevitable and magnificent surges of pierced darkness, |
60 |
Striborg |
"An Unfamiliar Journey" |
single |
when the demons appear on our doorsteps in simmering robes |
61 |
Violet Cold |
"Ehtiras Hisslər / Ehtiyat Hissələr" |
single |
and we say "demons! come in, come in!", |
62 |
Starer |
"Five Minutes Before Dawn" |
Remorse Defines Me 3 |
and take the dish of whatever it is from them. |
63 |
Panychida |
"Pustina" |
Říruřec - Dreisessel 5 |
"Vegan takoyaki...", they explain, |
64 |
Walg |
"Geselberg" |
single |
in a tone that suggests they are ready to apologize |
65 |
Foraoisí gan Iniúchadh |
"See The Sun Rise" |
Isolation |
for either the "vegan" part or the history of octopus slaughter, |
66 |
Einsamkeit |
"The Owl Eyes (Chapter. I)" |
The Owl Eyes 5 |
if taking unearned responsibility for either one will help. |
67 |
Alles Wird In Flammen Stehen |
"Sunset over the river-I" |
II - Sunset over the river |
The octopi are upstairs at the moment, anyway. They found the shower. |
68 |
The Lovecraft Sextet |
"Miserere - Sanctum - Opus III" |
single |
The original point of this party was so that they could meet some of our other friends, |
69 |
Caroline Shaw |
"And So" |
And So +1 |
but then again, the point of the ocean was to give us something to gather around that we didn't feel obliged to monetize, |
70 |
Christina Vantzou |
"Open Delay" |
Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett |
and you see how that turned out. |
71 |
Mlethwa Majola |
"Sizodlala" |
Siyasebenza |
They'll come back down eventually. |
72 |
Mlethwa Majola |
"Injabulo" |
Siyasebenza |
Vegan takoyaki is a touching gesture. The demons are trying. They're bad cooks, but we knew they were demons before we invited them, back when they were just those demons with the community-garden plot where literally nothing grows, |
73 |
Röyksopp |
"Speed King" |
single |
despite their earnest but wildly ineffective efforts. |
74 |
Röyksopp |
"The Night" |
single |
You kind of wanted to tell them that it's not really "tilling" when you do it with flaming tridents, |
75 |
mxracle |
"FEAR" |
single |
and now they're our new friends, and our old friends are about to become our new friends' newer friends. |
76 |
Sergio Rodríguez |
"Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52" |
single |
Come in, come in. Let us show you Buenos Aires, or whatever this is. We are at our most human and serene right now. You all got here just in time. |