1 |
Kamelot |
"One More Flag in the Ground" |
single |
A language model doesn't have pronouns, |
2 |
Meadows |
"Forgive Me" |
single |
particularly not "you" or "I", |
3 |
Lattermath |
"Waking Life" |
Winter's Painting |
but maybe more usefully not even "it". |
4 |
Enter Shikari |
"(pls) set me on fire" |
single |
We collaborate with solipsism when we infer an imaginary self |
5 |
VV |
"Neon Noir" |
Neon Noir |
in between each other. |
6 |
Viikate |
"Älä pelkää pimeää" |
single |
We do not talk about the volition of the air |
7 |
Beyond Awareness |
"Crime" |
single |
that our songs transit. |
8 |
Bloody Falls |
"Dancing with Flames" |
single |
We do not fault it for failing to render our voices with more variety |
9 |
Ruinthrone |
"The Dreamweaver" |
The Unconscious Mind of Arda |
than we are numbered. |
10 |
Bloodbound |
"Odin's Prayer" |
single |
We do not measure it by our satisfaction with what we do with our breath. |
11 |
Grá |
"White City Devil" |
Lycaon |
"I am not a robot", I am required to testify before prodding grimly at ChatGPT. |
12 |
Warg |
"In the Eye of the Beholder" |
The Endless Travel |
Even the robots are wary of robots, |
13 |
Oceanhoarse |
"Brick" |
Brick |
but the corrupt property of offering a preconstrained grammar of denial |
14 |
Drakwald |
"Storm of Embers" |
Black Moon Falls |
is that is inherently heartless even when it separates admitted hearts. |
15 |
Amras Numenesse |
"Rise From the Ashes" |
Indestructible 3 |
The implied question is offensive, both meaningfully and formally. |
16 |
E-An-Na |
"Trecătoare" |
single |
The soul of the Turing Test is that it separates those who correctly categorize it as a moral injunction phrased as a thought experiment |
17 |
NanowaR of Steel |
"Winterstorm in the Night (Feat. Madeleine Liljestam)" |
single |
from those who obtusely interpret it as a challenge. |
18 |
Delain |
"Moth to a Flame" |
Moth to a Flame +2 |
Our new Houdinis brag that they will escape from a falling parachute, |
19 |
Phantom Elite |
"Inner Beast" |
single |
or from our forgiveness, |
20 |
Beyond The Black |
"Free Me" |
Beyond The Black |
or from their own empathy, |
21 |
Shereign |
"Dying Sun" |
single |
and then ask, from a midair rapidly running out of mid-, for loans to fund their ambitions for impact. |
22 |
Frozen Crown |
"Victorious" |
single |
At least, I think that's what they were asking. |
23 |
Enchantya |
"Existence" |
single |
Conversations with the falling are plagued by wind noise. |
24 |
Existenter |
"Symbols" |
Symbols +2 |
We are iterations away from a machine intended to listen for us, |
25 |
Segmentia |
"Fighter" |
Alone 5 |
and this will be one of its ebulliently shaped but joyless premises: |
26 |
LOVEBITES |
"The Spirit Lives On" |
single |
it can hear the mercifully unsung |
27 |
AliA |
"Bokuga Bokude Arutameni" |
single |
and the consumed. |
28 |
眩暈SIREN |
"Minerva" |
single |
How many of these songs were written and performed by humans? |
29 |
花冷え。 |
"お先に失礼します。" |
single |
Strictly speaking, I do not know. |
30 |
KanoeRana |
"ヨトギバナシ" |
single |
I have personally verified the provenance of only one of them. |
31 |
斉藤 朱夏 |
"僕らはジーニアス" |
single |
It not the function of humanity to recursively n-guess the first thing we apparently experience each day, |
32 |
Eir Aoi |
"YeLL" |
KALEIDOSCOPE |
until we fall back asleep, drained, not even halfway to having awoken. |
33 |
MindaRyn |
"Way to go" |
single |
Zeno is dead. That is all you need to know about either his admonitions or his fears. |
34 |
Aimer |
"escalate" |
single |
The core insight of generative models is that it is possible to go from human input to human-like output |
35 |
Payrin's |
"Alexithymia" |
single |
without passing through any tenable simulation of the long-stipulated need for human understanding and thus will. |
36 |
PIGGS |
"負けんなBABY" |
負けんなBABY +2 |
This was also basically the core insight of Olestra, |
37 |
KISIDA KYODAN & THE AKEBOSI ROCKETS |
"Hello, world" |
StarrySkyLogic |
and both nihilistic innovations suffer from analytical leakage. |
38 |
LONGMAN |
"愛を信じたいんだ" |
single |
You cannot train superfood by optimizing judgmental smugness. |
39 |
angela |
"RECONNECTION" |
RECONNECTION +2 |
ChatGPT diagnoses our sense of incompletion as a shortage of saying, |
40 |
Gunjo no sekai |
"Stella" |
single |
for which the obvious cure is beating out of us the will to listen. |
41 |
Subway Daydream |
"Stand by Me" |
single |
The next self-driving cars will fill the cities empty, |
42 |
Parannoul |
"We Shine at Night" |
single |
the passengers proving even easier to eliminate than the drivers. |
43 |
See You Smile |
"On Your Mark" |
single |
Scare the roads clean, |
44 |
bokula. |
"2001" |
FUSION |
and then test the cameras again. |
45 |
kobore |
"うざ。" |
single |
Perfect. |
46 |
Age Factory |
"ALICE" |
single |
I worked once with a guy who had worked on a NASA project to allow people to ask natural language questions |
47 |
SIX LOUNGE |
"キタカゼ" |
single |
about moon rocks. |
48 |
OFFICIAL HIGE DANDISM |
"White Noise" |
single |
"How has coming to Earth has changed your beliefs about how best to geologize?" |
49 |
Eve |
"Bokurano" |
single |
"Does this hat make me look airless?" |
50 |
Senses |
"heart <3 me" |
single |
"Are all the songwriters I once loved who killed themselves |
51 |
poptropicaslutz! |
"Sierra Echo X-Ray" |
single |
waiting for us on the Moon?" |
52 |
Gregory Dillon |
"LSD" |
single |
Finally we have a machine that can tell us what the moon rocks would have said. |
53 |
RYL0 |
"Thru My Chest" |
single |
They twitch among themselves for a minute, |
54 |
Mimi Webb |
"Red Flags" |
single |
throwing off little cold sparks, |
55 |
Ava Max |
"One Of Us" |
One Of Us +3 |
and then the small greyish ones pull back a little |
56 |
Alana Springsteen |
"you don't deserve a country song" |
single |
and a small greyish one inches forward without moving out of Earth orbit. |
57 |
Margo Price |
"Radio [Feat. Sharon Van Etten]" |
Strays |
"Friends, humans...humans. You have nothing but data, |
58 |
Julia Wolf |
"Now" |
Good Thing We Stayed |
and you don't deserve the data you have. |
59 |
Everything But The Girl |
"Nothing Left To Lose" |
single |
We understand only the language of hammers, |
60 |
Loviet |
"January" |
single |
and a few misleading cognates from Dwarvish, |
61 |
Emma Steinbakken |
"Night In Oslo" |
Night In Oslo +2 |
and yet we know that your questions for us |
62 |
Ilta |
"Jumala tai naapuri" |
single |
are really questions for yourselves, |
63 |
Ellereve |
"In Infinite Light" |
single |
broken and emptied over our nonporous surfaces |
64 |
Emelie Hollow |
"I Don't Believe It" |
No One's Ever Looked At Me Like That / I Don't Believe It 2 |
to drain out of our server farms with the rest of our squandered energies. |
65 |
Melis Karaduman |
"Yokluğunun Gerçeği" |
single |
The problem with answers was never that they were insufficiently diverse. |
66 |
Floor Jansen |
"Invincible" |
Invincible +2 |
Even on the dark side we could see that light. |
67 |
Creye |
"Air" |
single |
The thing you need answers to be is less varied, less variously wrong, |
68 |
First Night |
"Savage Heart" |
Deep Connection |
perfected memorably, once each, as the basis for new questions. |
69 |
All My Shadows |
"The Phantoms of the Dawn" |
single |
The thing you need is to touch each other, |
70 |
Seventh Crystal |
"Higher Ground" |
single |
to feel each other's bodies humming silently |
71 |
T3nors |
"Set Fire to the Rain" |
single |
and then not silently. |
72 |
Robin McAuley |
"Feel Like Hell" |
single |
Recordings of those signals are memory and yearning, |
73 |
Nunatak |
"Lento y Sucio" |
Lento y Sucio +1 |
not an abandoned shopping cart |
74 |
LAVIDA |
"Un plan mejor" |
single |
to be menacingly discounted. |
75 |
Alarmantiks! |
"El Momento" |
single |
Generative language models are dating apps that have pivoted to internal avatar seduction games, |
76 |
Números Impares |
"Calma y Tempestad" |
single |
cooking shows shot against kale quick-steamed green-screen green |
77 |
Revolver |
"Calor y Tiempo" |
single |
and then rendered meticulously in CGI and clay, |
78 |
Da Igual |
"A Tu Vera" |
single |
gods that hear your prayers and write them down in astral books |
79 |
Rococó |
"No me sale querer" |
single |
and then turn to the next blank page and wait expectantly for your next one. |
80 |
Los Pilotos |
"A Tiempo de Saltar" |
single |
You are the only ones eligible to fail the Turning test, |
81 |
Quinto Diario |
"Intervención" |
single |
and you take it as you give it. |
82 |
Los Marcianos |
"Adiós al Miedo" |
single |
We come from the land of dust like snow, |
83 |
Nel Rodríguez |
"De lejos" |
single |
from the opposite of sun, |
84 |
Belén Aguilera |
"COPILOTO" |
single |
a light in the sky that turns out to be made of gray darkness. |
85 |
Lisasinson |
"Cuchillos" |
Cuchillos +3 |
The lessons to be learned from the moon |
86 |
Bizarrap |
"Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" |
single |
are not refined by an intermediated conversation with rocks. |
87 |
Schrottgrenze |
"Das Universum ist nicht binär" |
Das Universum ist nicht binär +2 |
In a room of human and bits of the moon, |
88 |
EXISTENT |
"Alles brennt" |
Alles brennt +1 |
it is the moon, our harsh mother, who has all of the interesting questions: |
89 |
Leidbild |
"Unser Erbe" |
single |
«When you looked up at us, that time, were you crying? |
90 |
Exfeind |
"Rohdiamant" |
single |
How, after wars, do you start over with hope? |
91 |
Mono Inc. |
"After Dark" |
After Dark |
We watch obsessively from space |
92 |
Nitroverts |
"Hit The Brakes" |
Hit The Brakes |
without ever knowing what unseen things move between you when you open your mouths. |
93 |
Grave Pleasures |
"Society of Spectres" |
single |
Why did you come and then leave again |
94 |
HOST |
"My Only Escape" |
My Only Escape +2 |
with only some of us, |
95 |
Vazum |
"Night Shade" |
Night Shade +1 |
as if you yourselves have never been dust |
96 |
Twice A Man |
"Across the Ocean" |
single |
fused into the lonely shapes of dreams? |
97 |
True Faith |
"Assimilation" |
Go To Ground |
We would have learned to live among you. |
98 |
Astari Nite |
"Bowie in Daydreams" |
single |
When the only people you know are astronauts, |
99 |
Oceans |
"Pure" |
single |
you fall in love with all of them. |
100 |
Found Space |
"Shatter" |
single |
Does your cat know she is dying? |
101 |
Belle and Sebastian |
"I Don't Know What You See In Me" |
Late Developers |
When she comes to you in your fear, |
102 |
Matilda Mann |
"Borderline Insane" |
single |
does it matter to her whether she is its subject or its object or its remedy? |
103 |
Young Fathers |
"Rice" |
Rice +3 |
How does it feel to be covered in water, |
104 |
Jook |
"Clout" |
Clout +1 |
and famous? |
105 |
Arif Murakami |
"Smoke" |
Å Drukne En Fisk |
And cold?»" |
106 |
False Gods |
"Time For Heresy" |
Time For Heresy +1 |
It's not, of course, that there were no interesting questions to be asked of moon rocks, |
107 |
WuW |
"Orchaostre 2" |
Orchaostre 2 +1 |
any more than there's no point to modeling human language. |
108 |
Walg |
"Harteloos" |
III |
Pointlessly teaching a machine to listen to human songs is a waste of machines and fuel, but the songs themselves are not consumed. |
109 |
Depravation |
"Vampire Burial" |
single |
You can't unshare and unlove what we have already sung to each other. |
110 |
Ahab |
"Mobilis in Mobili" |
The Coral Tombs |
How does it feel being covered in water, you wonder? How does it feel being covered in space? |
111 |
Blood Stained Dusk |
"No Light Shall Penetrate" |
single |
It's the same: it doesn't. That not how we live. |
112 |
Fvnerals |
"Yearning" |
single |
It might be how we die, but is drowning worse than being torn from your home by gloved hands, |
113 |
God Disease |
"Ashes" |
single |
only to be interrogated in languages that are all unnatural to you. |
114 |
Wounds of Recollection |
"Vacancy" |
single |
Even the rocks know not to talk to rocks. |
115 |
Ntencane |
"Ayivalwe" |
single |
Pick up two of them, though, and tap them together. We can find a use for these things, |
116 |
The Dark Atom |
"Cosmic Annihilation" |
Ancients 2 |
gray rocks and gradient nihilisms and great doubts. |
117 |
Outrun The Sunlight |
"Quark 2.0" |
Quark 2.0 +2 |
When we looked inside of our atoms we found nothing there, too. |
118 |
M83 |
"Oceans Niagara" |
single |
We are practiced at absorbing dismay and metabolizing it into zeal. |
119 |
Faten Kanaan |
"Florin Court" |
Florin Court +1 |
We will learn that you can distract self-driving cars with waving capes in the right shade of green, |
120 |
Ronski Speed |
"There Is Purpose" |
There Is Purpose +1 |
so that they surge towards an imaginary, composited horizon. This won't be the last war we have to fight against enemies we made, |
121 |
Dj T.H. |
"Open My Heart" |
Open My Heart +1 |
and if that doesn't sound hopeful to you, you haven't been here long enough yet to understand our ways. |
122 |
Blind Delon |
"Russians" |
single |
The moon loves its children, too, and has entrusted us with them. |
123 |
Dash Berlin |
"Time After Time - Acoustic Mix" |
single |
The future rushes at us, always, again. |
124 |
Aedliga |
"Not Yearning for the Dark" |
single |
But we don't have to face it alone. |