1 |
Emma Hewitt |
"COLLIDE" |
single |
The look is in your eyes. |
2 |
My Own Ghost |
"Somebody Else's Sky" |
single |
We write songs about moments |
3 |
Cowherence |
"Maybe" |
single |
because it's easier to explain a single feeling at a time |
4 |
Silentlie |
"Taste Of Solitude" |
Equilibrium |
than it is to stop having all the other ones at once. |
5 |
Scarlet Dorn |
"Love Wasn't Made for Me" |
Queen of Broken Dreams |
Behind the look that says "tonight only we exist", |
6 |
SÄÄDÖT |
"Hei Jyrki!" |
single |
if you don't look away as soon as you see the one you want, |
7 |
Ellur |
"Best Face On" |
Best Face On +1 |
are the ones that say "but everybody believes that when they're dancing, |
8 |
VUKOVI |
"QUENCH" |
QUENCH |
and then there is a rented truck half-parked outside with one wheel on the curb" |
9 |
BONES UK |
"Cheap Love" |
single |
and "I don't fully believe I deserve this, |
10 |
ISLA LAVANDA |
"Pringada" |
single |
and if you leave me alone on enough Tuesdays I will eventually realize that you don't, either" |
11 |
Dulce María |
"La Que Un Día Te Amó" |
single |
and "I want to go home with you |
12 |
MARLENA |
"bailamorena" |
single |
but I also want to count the words in a poem about longing |
13 |
ALIS |
"La Bine Si La Rau" |
single |
and then see how my soccer team plays |
14 |
Karlien Van Jaarsveld |
"Ophou" |
single |
in a game that no longer means anything." |
15 |
Christine and the Queens |
"rien dire" |
single |
Sometimes it's easier to just look away, |
16 |
Karin Park |
"Traces of Me" |
Traces of Me +2 |
at the sky or some other screen, |
17 |
Björk |
"Sorrowful Soil" |
Fossora |
as if you are already perfect |
18 |
Tegan and Sara |
"I Can’t Grow Up" |
I Can't Grow Up 4 |
and everybody else is perfect |
19 |
Cece Coakley |
"My Time" |
single |
and you are 25 again |
20 |
Jennifer Hart |
"1992" |
1992 |
or only just born, |
21 |
Zola Simone |
"Soaked" |
Flower 5 |
and so you have time, all the time. |
22 |
Oakman |
"Lucky Charm" |
SCP 6 |
Dreaming is easier than living, |
23 |
Samantha Stone |
"Mess" |
single |
and listening to other people's dreams |
24 |
Meet Me @ The Altar |
"Say It (To My Face)" |
single |
is easier than rationalizing your own |
25 |
Chris Mifsud |
"Too Little Too Late" |
single |
until you accept that this is true for them, too. |
26 |
Frankmusik |
"Vacant Heart Completed" |
single |
Together we are impossibly unlonely, |
27 |
Jagwar Twin |
"Online" |
33 |
touched by the most tenuous and intermediated caresses, |
28 |
Wilbur Soot |
"Soft Boy" |
single |
turned inside out by the pull of empty spaces. |
29 |
Oligarkh |
"Смертию" |
single |
Alone we are the perpetrators and the victims and the bystanders of wars. |
30 |
Hyd |
"Breaking Ground" |
single |
Together we are commodified, but unconscriptable. |
31 |
glaive |
"three wheels and it still drives!" |
single |
Together we may throw away things we have made, and then pick them up again. |
32 |
fats'e |
"a million pieces" |
single |
Together we may conceal ourselves from the future, |
33 |
Arkaeo |
"stay." |
single |
or vice versa, |
34 |
MOG |
"Christ Bled" |
T.E.I.T.R II |
by each standing so that the other one's head is exactly in the way. |
35 |
RADWIMPS |
"Suzume" |
single |
We are most functional as silhouettes, |
36 |
ROTH BART BARON |
"赤と青" |
single |
too heartbreakingly vivid any other way. |
37 |
BUMP OF CHICKEN |
"SOUVENIR" |
single |
There are reasons we fall in love in underlit and underinformed spaces |
38 |
FOMARE |
"優しさでありますように" |
single |
before risking the light, |
39 |
AprilBlue |
"Nocturne" |
single |
casting ourselves in temporary collaborative fugues |
40 |
メレ |
"おまも" |
おまも +1 |
before we have to decide if we can effectively negotiate carpool logistics |
41 |
MindaRyn |
"BRAND NEW OLD" |
single |
or the choice of appliances. |
42 |
Morfonica |
"The Circle Of Butterflies" |
single |
We need to know that we can be weightless, |
43 |
PeepSiLL! |
"kiri ga haretara" |
kiri ga haretara/PPSL 2 |
lighter than this suffocating air, |
44 |
GANGDEMIC |
"PARTY GANG CRAZY" |
single |
or if not weightless then tall enough to reach above this layer of grim doubt with our hands |
45 |
04 Limited Sazabys |
"Keep going" |
single |
and catch passing birds |
46 |
BOY MEETS HARU |
"Schrodinger's cat" |
Schrodinger's cat +2 |
so gently that they will thank us even before either of us are sure whether we intend to feed them |
47 |
Leo Ieiri |
"Pain" |
single |
to our own pet needs. |
48 |
TRiDENT |
"CRY OUT" |
single |
The mystery is not why we need songs, |
49 |
幻想ばっどえんど |
"Gensoutosonosakie" |
single |
or why we make them, |
50 |
SiLENTNOiSE |
"WONDER WONDER" |
single |
it's how we manage to match the two up with such plainly inadequate information |
51 |
Hikicomoteikoku |
"Shangri-la" |
single |
about the worlds we think our acts of hearing imply. |
52 |
HEXED |
"Pagans Rising" |
Pagans Rising |
We yearn not for mythical eras when we knew better, |
53 |
April Art |
"Leave It Behind" |
P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E. |
but for the way we are scoured clean by the atmospheric reentry |
54 |
Motive Black |
"Fight Alone" |
single |
of orbital nostalgia. |
55 |
Kuolemanlaakso |
"Kuolleiden laulu" |
single |
Sometimes the look in someone's eye only really says |
56 |
Nekonomicon |
"Midnight Danger" |
single |
"you and I are ordinary in different commons". |
57 |
Kassogtha |
"Complacency" |
Complacency +2 |
We confuse surprise with allure, |
58 |
Therion |
"Marijin Min Nar" |
Marijin Min Nar +3 |
in order to feel chosen, |
59 |
White Skull |
"Metal Never Rusts" |
single |
but we misunderstand chosenness as scarcity. |
60 |
Majesty Of Revival |
"The Newborn Sun" |
Battlefield |
We are ordinated each into dubious orthodoxies declaimed in funny accents, |
61 |
Dark Forest |
"Skylark" |
Ridge & Furrow |
our own the funniest and most glorious of them, |
62 |
Candlemass |
"Sweet Evil Sun" |
Sweet Evil Sun +1 |
of course. |
63 |
Kampfar |
"Rekviem" |
Rekviem +1 |
Imagine yourself in robes, flanked by censers. |
64 |
Imha Tarikat |
"Son Of Ultradevotion" |
single |
That's how cults endure: |
65 |
Karg |
"Grab der Wellen" |
single |
not by relying on your specific submission |
66 |
Jordfäst |
"Abortologen, Pt. 3" |
single |
but by invoking your secret awes |
67 |
Labyrinth of Stars |
"Vacuum" |
Spectrum Xenomorph |
as their shields. |
68 |
Doedsvangr |
"The Drewl from Their Mouths" |
Koinonia 3 |
Atheists sustain theologies by cherishing their icons, |
69 |
Strigoi |
"United in Viscera" |
Viscera |
and thus we are freed from our atavistic imperatives not through convulsions of defiance |
70 |
Forlesen |
"Harrowed Earth" |
single |
but embrace. |
71 |
Sinister Downfall |
"Souls Enslaved" |
The Last Witness |
We defeat our enemies by singing their songs, |
72 |
HYMALAYA |
"Mountain Fog" |
single |
not as disguise or dispossession, |
73 |
Filip Lackovic |
"Gods Awaken" |
single |
but to demonstrate to both of us that we share the cost of their memory. |
74 |
Heldom |
"Hrafnáss" |
single |
Defeat is not a fate of enemies, |
75 |
Rachel Nusbaumer |
"In My Veins" |
single |
nor enemy a state. |
76 |
Myrholt |
"Fra varde til varde" |
single |
We refactor the system of equations of opposition |
77 |
Lunar Mercia |
"Leaving the Fragile Space" |
Leaving the Fragile Space +3 |
until all the people are on one side, |
78 |
Soul Dissolution |
"SORA II" |
SORA |
and all the hatreds are on the other, |
79 |
ColdWorld |
"Hymnus" |
Isolation |
and then we snap the blades of the equals sign shut |
80 |
NYGMA |
"Nygma" |
NYGMMA (Deluxe Edition) |
and walk away. |
81 |
Kuggur |
"حَصَادِ الْخرِيفِ" |
حصاد ضَوْءٌ النُّجُومِ |
The lines that connect us run straight through the Earth, |
82 |
Mimi Barks |
"ABYSS" |
ABYSS 5 |
blithely transiting infernos of disregard, |
83 |
Björk |
"Victimhood" |
Fossora |
transgressing us out of tragedy. |
84 |
Avatarium |
"Stockholm" |
Stockholm +2 |
Halfway through falling, we change our minds and fly, |
85 |
The Otolith |
"Hubris" |
single |
heedless of the canonical literature of how foolish and inevitable this renders our doom. |
86 |
Ruby the Hatchet |
"Deceiver" |
single |
But did you ever actually try to melt yourself in the dangling sun? |
87 |
Sammary |
"219" |
single |
It looks like you could touch it, |
88 |
Let's Eat Grandma |
"Give Me A Reason" |
single |
right up until the moment you fall. |
89 |
Soft Blue Shimmer |
"Love Being" |
single |
The sun didn't melt anybody's wings. |
90 |
sphere |
"the starry night" |
single |
That's a story the lawyers said to stick to. |
91 |
Palm Ghosts |
"Signal" |
single |
The wax companies have money; |
92 |
Nation of Language |
"From The Hill" |
single |
you can't collect a lucrative share of a father's justified grief. |
93 |
Soft Kill |
"Congratulations Text" |
single |
Flying is just hard, that's all. |
94 |
El Verbo Odiado |
"La Pasión" |
single |
Making wings doesn't solve this complexity, |
95 |
Moito! |
"California" |
single |
it just moves it onto a different lift surface. |
96 |
Fanáticos |
"Las Manecillas del Reloj" |
single |
Making machines to raise us out of ourselves |
97 |
Perfect Average |
"About You" |
single |
is like leaping in the air and hanging there |
98 |
Ang Dating Don Juan |
"Tayo Lang" |
single |
long enough to draw a map of where we will be when we land again. |
99 |
Aye, The Anchor |
"Paraiso" |
single |
It sounds hard until you realize that the map of the world from a foot above your head |
100 |
ONE CLICK STRAIGHT |
"MRT" |
single |
has the same endings as every other story. |
101 |
2nd Grade |
"Cover Of Rolling Stone" |
Easy Listening |
We survive bad years at UCLA |
102 |
Origami Angel |
"penn hall" |
re: turn 3 |
by crawling through the shortest day |
103 |
Callejon |
"Ich komme niemals an" |
Ich komme niemals an +2 |
until we reach the first impossible place. |
104 |
Richard Marx |
"We Are Not Alone" |
Songwriter |
You've walked past this guy a thousand times, |
105 |
LeBrock |
"See Me" |
See Me +1 |
thinking "'Jessie's Girl'? 'Missing You'? 'The Salt in My Tears'? no..." |
106 |
Jeremiah Kane |
"Kanjozoku" |
Ronin |
and then you catch each other's distracted glances and he says, |
107 |
Lilac |
"distress" |
distress |
with the backgrounds swirling around you like a movie, "We are not alone". |
108 |
Time, The Valuator |
"Glow" |
Glow +2 |
Time does not avenge, it merely accounts. |
109 |
Illyria |
"The Sky Is Full Of Hopes & Dreams" |
The Sky Is Full Of Hopes & Dreams +1 |
The sky is full of hopes and dreams, |
110 |
Devin Townsend |
"Call of the Void" |
Call of the Void +1 |
but so is the ground. So is the useless core of our temporarily only planet. |
111 |
Infinitome |
"Day I Lost You" |
Beyond the Beyond |
We do not lose or lack hope. |
112 |
Hourglass |
"Void Within" |
single |
Our stories of our own fears are screenplays for epics of redemption. |
113 |
Mokita |
"Color Me In" |
Color Me In +3 |
We do not find or deserve redemption, |
114 |
The Blackheart Orchestra |
"Astronaut - Edit" |
single |
it is a current that flows ravishingly towards space |
115 |
Seven Lions |
"Stop Thinking (feat. Lights)" |
Stop Thinking (feat. Lights) +2 |
but begins wherever we are. |
116 |
Jon Hopkins |
"To Feel Again / Trois" |
single |
Did you notice? The faraway spaces look empty, but all the spaces you actually occupy are full. |
117 |
Sabina Ddumba |
"By Design" |
DEAR 27 pt.2 5 |
All of these looks are in your eyes. |
118 |
Zap Mama |
"Pazàpa" |
single |
Our task is not to disentangle them in order to assign each one to a fragment of language, |
119 |
Mashonisa |
"Kade Ngiqholosha" |
Uguga Nembewu |
it's to remember that we do not look back in essays, |
120 |
Sonakali |
"Otshwaleni" |
Iphutha |
do not have to look back in flags or judgments, |
121 |
King Nuba |
"Umninimandlawonke" |
single |
do not have to look back. |
122 |
Drega |
"Sfede" |
single |
We write songs about moments because that's where we were when we felt human. |
123 |
Msaki |
"Pata Pata Saguquka" |
single |
Songs suspend these moments in the air just long enough for us to walk around them |
124 |
Oren Ambarchi |
"III" |
Shebang |
and see how beautiful they are from every angle. |
125 |
Jessica Moss |
"Light Falls On Every Door" |
Light Falls On Every Door +2 |
You don't have to believe that you deserve this. It consumes you regardlessly, eagerly. |
126 |
Björk |
"Her Mother's House" |
Fossora |
There is space in your voice. I hear it. Everyone can hear it, it's just that I'm here now. |
127 |
Blinding Sunrise |
"Found & Lost" |
single |
I want you to want to go home with me, |
128 |
Cults |
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" |
single |
but I also want you to want to finish writing your song about how it was before we met. |
129 |
Nestor |
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody" |
Kids in a ghost town |
Loneliness calls. I understand that. I hear it, too. That's what one of the looks in my eyes would mean, if you had time to write it down. |
130 |
Sergio Rodríguez |
"I Just Can't Wait To Be King" |
single |
We don't wait for futures, we hurl ourselves forward slowly in time. |
131 |
Qntal |
"Don't Fear the Reaper" |
Don't Fear the Reaper +1 |
We don't write these songs to leave behind, we write them to explain what we gave up, just for a moment, to remain. |