| 1 | Felicity Mangan | "Train Travel" | Train Tracks Recorded And Edited By Felicity Mangan | I realize and grant that this is more listening journal than evangelism, |
| 2 | Cementation Anxiety | "Illness Inveigh" | single | or at least that my essential compulsion to do it is internal, |
| 3 | Concepción Huerta | "Torrente" | single | but I like to imagine that some of you, and that there is a you large enough to have a some, |
| 4 | Gazelle Twin | "History" | single | sometimes attempt to take a week's music journey with me, as sequenced and annotated. |
| 5 | Krell | "Through All The Noise" | single | I always think of them that way, as journeys, but the travel is usually abstract, and the abstract travel usually begins in locales that are familiar, |
| 6 | Aleksi Perälä | "FI3AC2280010" | UNITY III III III | at least to me, and to the imaginary other who takes them with me routinely, |
| 7 | Sun-El Musician | "Makwande" | AEDM: Interstellar 2 | whether it eventually reaches bizarre outlands or not. |
| 8 | Wanitwa Mos | "Ngifuna Wena" | Wanitwa Mos Exclusives | This week, presumably due to maintenance complications, we are traveling in reverse, beginning with the at-once most literal and abstract, |
| 9 | David Jones David | "Ike" | Ike +1 | and I like to imagine that you are willing to spend 11:21 listening to edited train noises, |
| 10 | A'w DJ Mara | "Mama" | single | and the rest of the first hour awash in other noises, |
| 11 | Phumlani | "Ngenelela" | single | and the second hour wandering through a terrain of maskandi and other African realms |
| 12 | Senamile Mhlongo | "Ngaze Ngamuhle" | ANGINAFRONTAL 6 | that I usually put towards the end of these lists not because they are inherently more other than Japanese idol rock or cryptic metal or Scottish electropop, |
| 13 | Imfezemnyama | "Abagijime" | Inyanda | but because I realize I am more haplessly other to them. |
| 14 | Inkos'yamagcokama | "Yini Ungashongo" | Home Alone | Presenting recordings of environmental noises, processed or invented or simply captured, in the same listening space as music can't avoid music-cultural context, |
| 15 | Igcokama elisha | "Amajitha" | single | but it offers you the challenge of listening without it. |
| 16 | Mroza Fakude | "Ngisebenzile" | Umnikazi Weplazi | There will be no chorus. |
| 17 | Ojikelele G | "Ungasheshi Ulale" | Ngay'qoma | Your boredom or interest will not be so predictably arranged. |
| 18 | Ithole leNdidane | "Niyabesaba na?" | Is'hlahla senhlakanipho | And maybe this is even more true of music we ecstatically overhear from cultures to which we do not belong. |
| 19 | Potso Ngobese | "Ishe nesobho" | Inkinga Entsha | Does maskandi operate on deliberate floods of new albums in December, like the Icelandic Jólabókaflóð? |
| 20 | Mjikelo | "Mali Uyize" | Vandalism | I don't know. I don't know who these people are. I am barely able to recognize which ones I've heard before. |
| 21 | Umashwabana | "Angikufuni ukungasho - Radio Edit" | Angithothobele | I rarely have time to hear more than one track each from 3-4 new maskandi albums in a non-flood week, never mind these 10-12, |
| 22 | Maredi | "Banna diya natefa" | Banna diya natefa | depending on where we draw superfluous lines on a map of a place we have not even been. |
| 23 | DJ Maphorisa | "Konings" | single | I stipulate not only that I am never going to be part of this culture, |
| 24 | Young Fathers | "Tell Somebody" | Tell Somebody +2 | but that no semblance of that is even my goal. |
| 25 | demxntia | "happy" | single | I have spent many hours of my week listening to these songs, |
| 26 | familypet | "jealousy" | single | but those hours are embedded, as you find them here, |
| 27 | Caroline Polachek | "Welcome To My Island" | Welcome To My Island +3 | between hours of other things. |
| 28 | Carol Ades | "Sunny Disposition" | Sadtown USA 4 | All I ever hope to do is hear how other people's love sounds to them |
| 29 | The Hawkins Kid | "Somebody Save Me" | single | in a way that feels like joy to me, too. |
| 30 | Rebecca Black | "Look At You" | single | Is this harder or easier with maskandi or amapiano or reggaeton or chalga than it is with pop punk or rune folk or train noises? |
| 31 | Paramore | "The News" | The News +1 | If it is, for you, then you have learned a thing about yourself, |
| 32 | Charlotte is Mine | "Heart Out" | single | about the state of yourself, |
| 33 | ReoNa | "Simoom" | Alive(Special Edition) | and thus about some way in which you could become greater than you have yet been. |
| 34 | Mayo Okamoto | "カナリア" | single | A week can't offer you much more than this, |
| 35 | PassCode | "SIREN" | single | but any week can offer you at least this. |
| 36 | ЯeaL | "拝啓、あの日の僕へ" | single | Any day, any next song can take your hand and gently pull you forward and then turn you |
| 37 | Aimer | "Deep down" | single | so you see something new, so you hear the same noises bouncing slightly differently off of the surfaces of the world. |
| 38 | 珀 | "Grieve" | single | Guitar, bass, drums, voices. Trains. |
| 39 | NEKIRU | "Far Away" | The 1st: SPACE | There is a high fluttery sound in some maskandi songs that I don't know how they make, |
| 40 | TORICAGO | "Bad Dream" | BAD DREAM 3 | by whirling a clay bird in the air, or by whirling some of the same air inside of a human soul, |
| 41 | 豆柴の大群 | "青春ソナタ" | MUST CHANGE 4 | but some of the noises I make when I'm terrified or expectant have specific mechanisms I don't entirely understand, either. |
| 42 | yuigadokuson | "ARMADILLO" | ARMADILLO +3 | There are languages with clicks, languages that don't distinguish the R and L sounds, |
| 43 | GARNiDELiA | "Soten" | single | languages in which the past and present are not oppositional nouns, |
| 44 | ARTiCLEAR | "KAGUNE" | HAIIRO NO NINGEN | languages that do not impose an identity debate onto simple referential grammar. |
| 45 | Atomic Skipper | "ウォールフラワー" | éme 2 | We sing in all of them. |
| 46 | ASTERISM | "一途" | 一途 / unravel 2 | In all of these songs we are inscrutable and unmistakable and fully generalizable, |
| 47 | Issa | "Live Again" | single | and it should be blissfully no more surprising to hear echoes of your internal monologue in the voice of a Norwegian rock singer or a Senegalese R&B producer or an Atlanta rapper. |
| 48 | IT'sALIE | "Unbroken" | Emosphere | We have made many terrible machines with our dubious hands, |
| 49 | Nevena | "Writer's Block" | Nevena | but we have also made the ones that carry songs beyond their original accidental clearings, |
| 50 | Beyond Frequencies | "All In" | single | over skeptical horizons. |
| 51 | Mhelyssa | "La Trampa" | single | We are engines of the distorted transmission of grace, |
| 52 | Xandria | "The Wonders Still Awaiting" | The Wonders Still Awaiting +3 | of the fragmentary translation of rapture, |
| 53 | Within Temptation | "The Fire Within" | Forgotten Songs 2 | of the tentative transmutation of nominal elements. |
| 54 | Against Myself | "Beyond The Deep" | single | Each step can be flight or witness. |
| 55 | Deathless Legacy | "Hollow" | Mater Larvarum | Maybe each step can only be flight or witness, |
| 56 | Gomorra | "A Chance for the Better" | Dealer of Souls | and flight is the ruptured detachment of movement from self-awareness |
| 57 | Symphony Of Sweden | "Just Let It Bleed" | Just Let It Bleed +1 | in the hopes of evading consequence. |
| 58 | Redemption | "I Am the Storm" | single | But of course that is never how the journeys or stories end. |
| 59 | First Signal | "Never Gonna Let You Go" | single | Consequences are a manifold in intent-space, not a wolf distractable by voles. |
| 60 | The Foreshadowing | "Memento" | single | Or a wolf, but a wolf that sees you once and then never forgets. |
| 61 | Vaget | "Świętowit" | single | Our honest rituals are not exorcisms or transmigrations, |
| 62 | Żywiołak | "Dwuwiara" | Dekonstrukcja historyczna I | but ceremonial circumscriptions of the dangers layered in our nerves and flesh, |
| 63 | Maladie | "So Close" | Wound of Gods | and thus wards we send before us to ask for preparatory forgiveness. |
| 64 | Fvnerals | "Ashen Era" | single | There may or may not be a chorus; I am happy to apologize if you think that helps, |
| 65 | Imperium Dekadenz | "November Monument" | November Monument +1 | but I suspect our immunity or culpability will not be so easily triangulated |
| 66 | Woods of Desolation | "Beneath a Sea of Stars" | The Falling Tide | on this round world in infinite shapeless space. |
| 67 | Shaam Larein | "Flesh of Gold" | Sticka En Kniv I Världen | And of course this is just as true of the songs whose parameters you can enumerate |
| 68 | Haken | "The Alphabet of Me" | The Alphabet of Me +1 | as it is of the ones assembled out of unfamiliar orthographies. |
| 69 | Time, The Valuator | "Binary Pulse" | Binary Pulse +3 | These routes, taken end to end, think most grandly of themselves as attempting to assert a transformational congruity, |
| 70 | The Dark Atom | "Simulation" | 42 2 | and most mundanely of recommending the tolerance of following a merely described path into ruthlessly apparent darkness. |
| 71 | Maki | "Landmark" | single | A playlist can take you away. A song can take you away; |
| 72 | Marmi | "Me Rehúso" | single | a word; a tiny diagonal line over a single letter; |
| 73 | Simple Minds | "Traffic" | Traffic +1 | a line that becomes a circle. |
| 74 | Wandile Mbambeni | "Breathe" | INDIE DREAM MUSIC 6 | We are never going to become so much a part of any one chosen culture |
| 75 | Ryan Oakes | "WHITE FLAG" | single | that we cannot one day stand up and walk away, |
| 76 | Justin Courtney Pierre | "You're The Reason" | Permanent Midnight 5 | so the days that we don't are a decision we make. |
| 77 | 408 | "Something New" | single | The days we leave and return are a promise our future makes to our past. |
| 78 | Dear Youth | "So What?" | So What? +1 | In a quiet moment they compare their hours and find them not interchangeable, but exchangeable. |
| 79 | Bouquet | "Curtain Call" | single | If you can learn to collect other people's epiphanies as meticulously as your own, |
| 80 | Marathonmann | "Auryn" | single | you will understand how revelation is not finitely conserved. |
| 81 | Jupiter Jones | "Bleibt zusammen" | single | We do not sell each other our better selves, we make them together. |
| 82 | Gerhard Steyn | "Vat Die Cruiser" | single | We are all glib and worldwide, |
| 83 | Lily Rose | "Truth Is" | single | heartbroken and ready, |
| 84 | Sheyna Gee | "Dirt" | Dirt +2 | grounded and vaporous. |
| 85 | Hammock | "Love in the Void" | Love in the Void +3 | We go in search of love in the void as if there is a void, as if the substance we travel through is anything over than love itself. |
| 86 | Sam Fender | "Little Bull Of Blithe" | Seventeen Going Under | We are from oblivious disregards as natively as we are from towns or countries, |
| 87 | Dani Fernández | "Bailemos - On The Road" | Entre las dudas y el azar | and so our journeys are inevitably mapped along points on a dance floor |
| 88 | Acoustic Hearts | "Anti-Hero" | single | that leads into and then back from hell. |
| 89 | No Resolve | "Hallelujah" | single | We spin. All the chords are secrets we share. |
| 90 | Maggie Szabo | "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love" | single | Maybe there will be a chorus. Maybe this one will be for us. |
| 91 | Tragedy | "Venus" | single | We take turns imagining the divine, quickly in the way that tectonics are slow, |
| 92 | CVBZ | "Dreams (vocover)" | single | and maybe next time the rain washes away something we had inanely planned to sell, we will know. |