1 |
Tulip |
"Ghost of Kyiv" |
single |
Learn the names things call themselves, |
2 |
Dark Sarah |
"Warning Sign" |
single |
and you become more than yourself. |
3 |
Averlanche |
"Killing Floor" |
single |
Nihilism seeks to erase distinctions |
4 |
Cold Kingdom |
"Blackout" |
Life//Love |
out of a desperate evangelical emptiness. |
5 |
Shattered Vessels |
"Exile" |
single |
The temporary retreat from the shores of the leaking void |
6 |
Blackbriar |
"Crimson Faces" |
single |
cedes no natural rights, |
7 |
Sisters of Suffocation |
"Cordon Sanitaire" |
Cordon Sanitaire +2 |
but merely establishes a moral boundary |
8 |
The Inferno Doll |
"Renfield" |
single |
in order to quantify its current displacement from the physical one. |
9 |
Dark Moon Lilith |
"Eclipse" |
single |
We are called to stand in the way of the gaze of evil. |
10 |
Evol Walks |
"Sleeping with a Ghost" |
single |
Learn the names things try to hide from themselves |
11 |
Violet |
"Blame It on the Night" |
Illusions |
and you gain the power to redeem them, |
12 |
Disturbed |
"Don't Tell Me (feat. Ann Wilson)" |
Divisive |
but not necessarily the will. |
13 |
BABYMETAL |
"Monochrome" |
Monochrome +1 |
The light has no colors of its own, |
14 |
Underbeasty |
"Nyx" |
single |
and we have innumerable colors but no internal fire, |
15 |
ELFENSJóN |
"DAWN" |
single |
and these two things meet and the day begins: |
16 |
Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai |
"Sound Of My Heart" |
連星アスペクト 3 |
with thanks and forgiveness, |
17 |
IBUKI |
"Disappear" |
My Life |
with illusions and protractions, |
18 |
Lion net girl |
"Lip Sync" |
single |
with words that we cannot convince to leave our mouths, |
19 |
LiSA |
"シャンプーソング" |
LANDER |
with rituals of immunity, |
20 |
zenbukiminoseida. |
"Irozuku signal" |
meidaishingi |
with radiant beacons swept across the retreating dim. |
21 |
Ling tosite sigure |
"Marvelous Persona" |
single |
The names you call yourself begin as sounds, |
22 |
Aimer |
"Ivy Ivy Ivy" |
single |
and then you try to dance to them and you discover that your heart must be beckoned to other speeds |
23 |
Ayumi Hamasaki |
"MASK" |
single |
by something that motivates somebody else's skin. |
24 |
Eini |
"Älä pelkää mua" |
single |
You can survive for a while on defiance and solitude, |
25 |
Pastora Soler |
"Del cielo a mi corazón" |
Libra |
but only by wrapping your yearning in loneliness, |
26 |
Maryland |
"Hace Falta Rabia" |
Cataratas del paraíso |
and then your loneliness in ash. |
27 |
La Paloma |
"Algo ha cambiado" |
Algo ha cambiado +2 |
The ash looks a little like bricks, |
28 |
Noan |
"ME MATA(S)" |
single |
but tastes a lot like surrender. |
29 |
Joven Dolores |
"Mucho Más Que Ayer" |
single |
Each day it fills you less, |
30 |
Victorias |
"Arden las casetas" |
Un puño amable |
until you are clean: |
31 |
ONE CLICK STRAIGHT |
"Dahan-Dahan" |
single |
disassembled |
32 |
Justin Courtney Pierre |
"So Beautiful And Difficult" |
So Beautiful And Difficult +1 |
into flawless parts. |
33 |
The Wedding Present |
"Science Fiction - Single Version" |
Science Fiction 2 |
You were always made of these things. |
34 |
bis |
"Shopping for Tattoos" |
Systems Music for Home Defence |
Your instincts and powers are drawn on your skin |
35 |
ANORAK! |
"Asakusa" |
ANORAK! |
in an inscrutable code, |
36 |
Gatherers |
"boxcutter" |
( mutilator. ) |
a Braille of warmths and impedances and soft hairs, |
37 |
Charlotte Clark |
"Mother's Eyes" |
Mother's Eyes +1 |
legible only to lingering touch. |
38 |
A Projection |
"Lost Conversation" |
In A Different Light |
We did not plan to meet in the desert in winter, |
39 |
Code 64 |
"Hall of Mirrors" |
Broken Rhythm |
in preposterously improvised cities built by hoarded scarcity |
40 |
TOWNS |
"Okay, So" |
things you might feel sometimes |
and manipulated hands, |
41 |
Bright Light Bright Light |
"I Don't Know What I'm Gonna Do" |
single |
but the moral of Qatar is not that wealth may have its fantasies, |
42 |
The Wombats |
"Dressed to Kill" |
Is This What It Feels Like to Feel Like This? 6 |
it's that we can build places out of nothing, |
43 |
Tiffany |
"You're My Everything" |
single |
paid by nothing, |
44 |
Korine |
"Train to Harlem" |
single |
and then walk away. |
45 |
Madeleine Mayi |
"everything i want" |
single |
If we can raise superfluous arenas, far from our own cities, |
46 |
instant crush |
"special" |
single |
we can go back home and line our harbors with walls and warders |
47 |
Gladie |
"Mud" |
Don't Know What You're in Until You're Out |
until we learn how to negotiate with the sea floor to take its eagerness elsewhere. |
48 |
Soft Blue Shimmer |
"Cloudless" |
Love Lives in the Body |
Let this performative infrastructure in uninhabitable lands |
49 |
Courtney Swain |
"I don't want to tell you something you've heard already" |
notes to myself |
remind us of the limits of memory: |
50 |
Venice May |
"Encore" |
Encore +3 |
it can only tell us stories in which were are younger again, |
51 |
Sho Madjozi |
"Toro (feat. DDG)" |
single |
and thus inevitably more foolish |
52 |
Orezi |
"No Advise Me" |
single |
but less scarred. |
53 |
Citizen Deep |
"Hayii (Citizen Deep Remix) (feat. Yasmin Levy)" |
single |
Every city is built on hubris, |
54 |
Gogowé |
"Alive Today" |
single |
and then lost to whoever is willing to fill and then drain it. |
55 |
Mnqobi Yazo |
"Ukwenza Yenza" |
single |
You can commission a hundred stadiums in the sand, |
56 |
UNjoko |
"KwaMai Mai" |
Bayasesaba |
but the builders and the believers will go back to their own towns and coasts |
57 |
Shwi Mantombazane |
"Ukuhlupheka kwami" |
Ukuhlupheka Kwami |
and start again |
58 |
Amabhinca Smonyo no Mhlengi |
"Ubuntombi bami" |
Umthandazo Kamama |
from what they have and love, |
59 |
Smiso Khumalo sa |
"Ukuphuma kwezinyembezi" |
single |
and you will be the princes of nothing but the newest ruins. |
60 |
Manga Saint Hilare |
"Run For Your Life" |
Run For Your Life |
This is not how real cities were made, |
61 |
Backxwash |
"VIBANDA" |
HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING |
mock-serenely, with other people's flesh and your rules. |
62 |
Candlemass |
"Wizard of the Vortex" |
Sweet Evil Sun |
Our cities are made of erratic magic |
63 |
Enslaved |
"Congelia" |
Congelia +2 |
accumulated over prismatic aeons. |
64 |
Neopera |
"A New God" |
single |
Ah, no, wait. Now I remember. |
65 |
Threshold |
"Haunted" |
Dividing Lines |
This is exactly how half of all our other history happened, too: |
66 |
Retrospective |
"Log Out" |
Introvert |
as the manifest destiny of cynical concentrations of power, |
67 |
Arc Of Life |
"Real Time World" |
Don't Look Down |
built by conscripted and systematically betrayed labor, |
68 |
Soen |
"Modesty" |
ATLANTIS |
and at least initially lorded over. |
69 |
Arctic Rain |
"Fire in My Eyes" |
single |
So maybe these soon-useless venues will be liberated the same way, |
70 |
Arogya |
"Supernatural" |
single |
by the inexorable repatriation of blood and loyalty, |
71 |
SpellBlast |
"The Dancing Plague" |
Classified - V |
and by the same ironic regard sought. |
72 |
Grimner |
"Där Fröet Skall Spira" |
Urfader |
You invite the world to witness your majesty, |
73 |
Heidevolk |
"Klauwen Vooruit" |
single |
while wearing open-toed shoes, |
74 |
Leipa |
"01.09.2015" |
single |
and then refuse to sell them beer. |
75 |
Dead Crown |
"The Particle Of Gods" |
single |
They will see you exactly as you are: |
76 |
Rise to the Sky |
"A Time I Was Loved" |
Stay With Me When You're Gone |
crude, and rich only in the ways that will not long matter. |
77 |
Imha Tarikat |
"Brute Majesty" |
single |
You cannot earn royalty. |
78 |
Fortíð |
"Fimbulvetur" |
Dómur Um Dauðan Hvern 2 |
You can defer your abdication for a little longer, maybe, |
79 |
Harakiri for the Sky |
"Homecoming: Denied!" |
Homecoming: Denied! +1 |
but you can't buy the world's adoration, |
80 |
Mindless Paradise |
"Anemoia" |
Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz |
and you can't buy a team that represents any aspect of you but your entitlement. |
81 |
Grave Circles |
"Disintegrated Suns" |
Pestilence and Death 4 |
I know the names your people call themselves, |
82 |
16 |
"Dead Eyes" |
Into Dust |
the people that built your doomed city |
83 |
Jours Pâles |
"Ecumante de rage" |
single |
and fill it for a few weeks |
84 |
Brothel |
"SOLOMAS" |
single |
and then leave with more joy than they brought. |
85 |
The Glitch Mob |
"Cut Slope" |
Ctrl Alt Reality |
They are all of us, disarrayed and distributed, |
86 |
Jean-Michel Jarre |
"EPICA EXTENSION" |
single |
flying every color. |
87 |
Pulse Emitter |
"Cloudside Dwellings" |
Dusk |
We are called to stand in the way of historical inertia, |
88 |
Herknungr |
"Valtivar" |
Fornland |
and the complacency of privilege, |
89 |
Bjorth |
"Svinfylking" |
single |
and the flow of oil. |
90 |
HANDSOME ACADEMY |
"SOMETHING NEW" |
single |
We're not offering to grow flowers in your desert. |
91 |
Lilly Hiatt |
"Under the Milky Way" |
single |
You will be left with loveless fascination and sand. |
92 |
The Animal In Me |
"Be Kind" |
single |
You can close your eyes to the One Love, but not to your kind. |
93 |
Twenty One Two |
"Love Story" |
single |
You be the prince and I'll be the |
94 |
Rock Emo Nightcore |
"Anti-Hero (Rock REMIX)" |
single |
anti-hero, |
95 |
Taylor Swift |
"Anti-Hero - ILLENIUM Remix" |
single |
slowly lurching away again, towards every other city. |