1 |
Amy Lilley |
"One more night" |
Petrichor |
We give names to changes: |
2 |
Oakman |
"SCP" |
SCP 5 |
to humans beginning to exist, |
3 |
Eat Your Heart Out |
"Heavenly" |
Can't Stay Forever |
to the moving boundaries between oppressive space and subjective objects, |
4 |
Caroline Kole |
"headboard" |
single |
to collations of doubt, |
5 |
OSTON |
"Mouthwash" |
Melancholia 6 |
to the act of losing things as much as the things |
6 |
Beth Crowley |
"How Do You Do It?" |
single |
or their loss |
7 |
Zola Simone |
"Unsaid" |
single |
or ours. |
8 |
The Foxies |
"I Don't Wanna Want It" |
single |
Advocacy for change, in itself, |
9 |
WILLOW |
"curious/furious" |
single |
can sound structurally naïve or arbitrary, |
10 |
Katie Day |
"Ulysses (I'll Find the Light)" |
single |
as if nothing can ever be good the way it is. |
11 |
Santigold |
"Fall First" |
Spirituals |
But this is, basically, true. |
12 |
Sudan Archives |
"Loyal (EDD)" |
Natural Brown Prom Queen |
Things can be decent, or even good, but these are energies, |
13 |
Tunde Olaniran |
"Vibration" |
Ephemerrreality |
not properties, |
14 |
Fire-Toolz |
"Soda Lake With Game Genie" |
single |
and must be sustained. |
15 |
CMTEN |
"parasite" |
connect, breathe 6 |
A wing does not earn immunity from gravity. |
16 |
brakence |
"caffeine" |
single |
That is not the goal of lift. |
17 |
WHOKILLEDXIX |
"ANXIETY" |
ANXIETY +1 |
"Lift" is the name we have given to the change from grounded to flying, |
18 |
Drippin So Pretty |
"Grieving" |
single |
and only one of those two states is self-preserving, |
19 |
Hyd |
"So Clear" |
single |
even in the shortest term. |
20 |
Himera |
"You Make It Look So Easy (feat. Petal Supply) - S.M.I.L.E.Y" |
Sharing Secrets |
If you are willing to hear a new song, no matter how remote the possibility seems |
21 |
Björk |
"Atopos" |
single |
that you will love it more than you have already loved some other one, |
22 |
Ruelle |
"Another World" |
single |
then you are willing to perpetually inhabit a new world, |
23 |
Pr0files |
"Van Gogh" |
single |
willing to accept that the name of the next song |
24 |
The Midnight |
"Heroes" |
Heroes |
may turn out to be the name of a change taking place inside of you, |
25 |
Roxi Drive |
"Don't mess with my Heart" |
single |
existing particles spinning into subtly unprecedented orientations, |
26 |
ENHYPEN |
"One In A Billion" |
single |
altering the weak forces that allow you to stop believing |
27 |
Lewis Capaldi |
"Forget Me" |
single |
things you thought you knew. |
28 |
Simple Minds |
"First You Jump" |
First You Jump +1 |
First you have to be unafraid, |
29 |
Blancmange |
"Reduced Voltage" |
Reduced Voltage +3 |
unconvinced that you are statically defined by duly recorded transient states, |
30 |
Funambulista |
"Mi Calma y Tu Ansiedad" |
single |
in order to believe in the concurrent malleability, and thus the complementary humanity, |
31 |
Saiko |
"Se Nos Hace Tarde" |
Se Nos Hace Tarde +1 |
of you and others. |
32 |
Madeline |
"Hintay" |
Hintay +1 |
Grab your bag of names, a frayed city needs us, |
33 |
Northdrive |
"Martir" |
single |
here or somewhere we've not yet been, |
34 |
Deine Cousine |
"Irgendwo da draussen" |
Ich bleib nicht hier |
and thus not yet named: |
35 |
Radio Havanna |
"Alarmstufe Rot" |
Alarmstufe Rot +2 |
for rising earnestly out of the safety of the sea, |
36 |
Alarmbaby |
"Erwachsen sein" |
single |
for aging into culpability for our own impulses, |
37 |
María José |
"Arrepentida y Sola" |
single |
for giving us excuses to gather |
38 |
Christia Visser |
"Wat De Hel" |
single |
as much as the plazas into which we convene. |
39 |
Hitomi Yaida |
"オールライト" |
オールライト |
Geography claims that our movements all bring us |
40 |
For Tracy Hyde |
"Milkshake" |
single |
closer together or farther apart, |
41 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Shiawase nanda" |
JAPONISM |
but the first thing you learn by traveling |
42 |
fripSide |
"infinite Resonance" |
single |
is that non-trivial displacements are interchangeable. |
43 |
POPPiNG EMO |
"Lovin' Lovin' Lovin'" |
single |
The okonomiyaki restaurant you can't find |
44 |
MAD JAMIE |
"DUiDUi NOW" |
single |
may as well, in that moment, not exist. |
45 |
ЯeaL |
"さよならの理由" |
single |
The okonomiyaki restaurant that you can't find for long enough |
46 |
Quubi |
"Survivor" |
single |
that they've stopped serving lunch by the time you do, |
47 |
The Candace |
"Riverside" |
single |
may as well be a cuisine native to a country you aren't in. |
48 |
アカネサス |
"Aiaru Sekai" |
single |
There is no name for how you change when you taste it, |
49 |
MistoriA |
"Pain" |
single |
if you don't taste it, |
50 |
Mardelas |
"Burn Out!" |
Mardelas Ⅳ |
but "okonomiyaki" becomes a name for yearning, |
51 |
SHIN |
"ECHO" |
single |
and the way the people tried so earnestly to help you find what you were looking for, |
52 |
CrowsAlive |
"Neo Romancers" |
single |
even though it was not at all unclear if you had explained it well enough. |
53 |
ASTERISM |
"空に歌えば" |
Animetic |
How do you say, in a language you have only borrowed, |
54 |
Xandria |
"You Will Never Be Our God" |
You Will Never Be Our God +1 |
that you wish to stand in the doorways of their temples, |
55 |
Allen/Olzon |
"Look at Me" |
Army of Dreamers |
waiting for your life to adjust to the darkness? |
56 |
Cassyette |
"September Rain" |
single |
without calling their interior light "darkness"? |
57 |
Seas on the Moon |
"The Warrior" |
single |
How do you move, when moving requires you to admit that you measure other people's origins |
58 |
Cold Kingdom |
"Finally" |
Finally +3 |
in steps from yours? |
59 |
South Haven |
"Lost in the Feeling" |
Lost in the Feeling +1 |
How do we meet, in either of our spaces or any other space neutral only to our myopic perspectives, |
60 |
September Mourning |
"Guardian" |
single |
without merely pressing together the shinily non-porous surfaces of mirror solipsisms? |
61 |
Lunarian |
"Burn the Beauty" |
Burn the Beauty |
We offer our names to each other as descriptions of how we change by meeting, |
62 |
Splitmind |
"The World Will Never Be the Same" |
single |
and thus your name becomes the first name of everything you allow to reach you, |
63 |
Morphide |
"Catharsis" |
Anhedonia |
and the last name of everything you let go. |
64 |
One Morning Left |
"Tonight" |
Tonight +1 |
Nothing is ever so perfect that it cannot be improved by movement, |
65 |
Vermilia |
"Marras" |
Ruska |
by the next movement, by any movement, |
66 |
Psideralica |
"Better Than Us" |
single |
by being willing to contemplate new movements. |
67 |
Wednesday |
"Bull Believer" |
single |
We ask for change |
68 |
Brutus |
"Victoria" |
Victoria +2 |
in order to give ourselves the opportunity to accept the possibility of it. |
69 |
Victoria K |
"Tower" |
single |
Civilization is a not a result or description or context of an increased speed of change, |
70 |
A Sound of Thunder |
"The Golden Age" |
The Krimson Kult |
it is the name of it. |
71 |
Osyron |
"Beyond the Sun" |
single |
We move away from doom, from destiny, |
72 |
Teramaze |
"The Thieves Are Out" |
single |
or we reach them in a detonational impact; |
73 |
Virtual Symmetry |
"The Paradise of Lies" |
single |
the opposite of impact is transcendence, |
74 |
Fallujah |
"Artifacts" |
Empyrean |
both of them only nominally nouns. |
75 |
Revocation |
"Lessons in Occult Theft" |
Netherheaven |
This is your lesson in rejecting divine gifts: |
76 |
U.D.O. |
"Dust and Rust" |
single |
anything immortal is useless to you while you are alive. |
77 |
Winter |
"Pray - Single Edit" |
Pray 3 |
Prayer is the name we give to the weak moments in which we can't face this, |
78 |
Ozzy Osbourne |
"Immortal (feat. Mike McCready)" |
Patient Number 9 |
in which our frailties seem too present, |
79 |
Aethyrien |
"Younger Futhark" |
single |
in which we cannot hear our own names in legends. |
80 |
Tides From Nebula |
"Fearflood" |
single |
Things can be catastrophic, or nihilistic, but these are the fluid dynamics |
81 |
Exxasens |
"Décollage (Departure)" |
Le-Voyage |
of corrosives and capitulations. |
82 |
JAMBINAI |
"once more from that frozen bottom" |
single |
Sinking does not cede victory to deeper attractors |
83 |
Blackbraid |
"The River of Time Flows Through Me" |
Blackbraid I |
we will anyways never reach. |
84 |
Crippled Black Phoenix |
"Rose of Jericho" |
Banefyre |
There is always more story: |
85 |
Street Sects |
"X Amount" |
single |
more plot, more twists, |
86 |
WARGASM (UK) |
"Super Fiend" |
EXPLICIT: The MiXXXtape |
more obstacles, |
87 |
Harry Shotta |
"All Mazza" |
single |
more litanies, |
88 |
Mlethwa Majola |
"We Ex Yami" |
INQABA KAYITSHELWANA 2 |
more grace. |
89 |
Indoni |
"Ngicela ungi Poste" |
single |
We change ourselves by wandering into the unknown |
90 |
NomaXhosa |
"ISANGOMA SILELE - Freestyle" |
single |
with empty hands and constantly overflowing hearts. |
91 |
Umlabalaba |
"Ndu" |
Zibomv'inhliziyo |
Things can be both perfect and mundane, |
92 |
Ocelazimnike |
"Bongiwe" |
Bongiwe +2 |
both transformational and inexplicable, |
93 |
Umdinekar |
"Kumnandi Kuloluthando" |
Ayizondi Ingabadi |
every unknown word the name for a feeling you are specifically unprepared to have. |
94 |
uMkhulekelwa |
"Isazoqhubeka Impilo" |
Ngeke Ngisole Muntu |
You don't have feelings, or songs, the way you have stand-mixers or phone numbers; |
95 |
Maredi |
"Mosadi waka" |
single |
but they are the same to the boundless extent that collecting them is pointless. |
96 |
MusiholiQ |
"Inqaba" |
Uzuka |
You cannot reduce the number of songs that other people love |
97 |
Mobi Dixon |
"Banike" |
single |
by loving them yourself more acquisitively. |
98 |
Hallelujah The Hills |
"God Is So Lonely Tonight" |
single |
You can only make yourself more lonely. |
99 |
The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness |
"As the Day Begins" |
The Third Wave of... |
You can only give yourself a dismally triumphant name you will immediately have to unearn. |
100 |
Metta & Glyde |
"Anywhere with You - Radio Edit" |
single |
You can only separate yourself, obtusely and fleetingly, from euphoria. |
101 |
First to Eleven |
"Chasing Cars" |
single |
The names you give things don't stay were you left them. |
102 |
Halocene |
"Teenage Dirtbag" |
single |
That's not what we mean by giving. |
103 |
Darksidevinyl |
"Another Brick In The Wall" |
single |
Dark sarcasm does not earn itself imperviousness to revelation, or give you a wall you don't immediately have to unbuild. |
104 |
Ibibio Sound Machine |
"Heroes" |
Heroes +1 |
We become heroes, tragically and accidentally, but also, mercifully, briefly, barely. We steal time, but then it's ours, and we need a new name for whatever we choose to do with it next. |