1 |
BABYMETAL |
"METAL KINGDOM" |
METAL KINGDOM +2 |
The contrived identities we assume are layers we wrap around |
2 |
OCTAVIAGRACE |
"Hardenbergia" |
single |
the contrived identities we discover within ourselves |
3 |
Ayasa |
"Rou-chou-ren-un" |
single |
by seeing our reflection in the surface of our skin. |
4 |
PLEVAIL |
"Coda." |
single |
Careful authenticity, cultivated charm, effusive faith, practiced humility: |
5 |
Zsasz |
"Ultra Heroine" |
Ultra Heroine +2 |
these are all wishful epilogues backformed |
6 |
*Luna |
"ΔV" |
single |
from the way we squirm when we discover where the costumes we sent away for |
7 |
GANGDEMIC |
"CRIMIE" |
single |
came from, and where they rub against our stipulations. |
8 |
yosugala |
"ace of spades" |
single |
"We have no choice but to retreat", we try to imbue with solemnity, |
9 |
RAY |
"ATMOSPHERE - RAY" |
SPLIT EP 『ATMOSPHERE』 3 |
but we chose to arrive here, and this angle and this speed. |
10 |
Subway Daydream |
"Skyline" |
Ride |
Stepping forward is a choice: into dirt or air, |
11 |
bungeitengoku |
"the eye drops from 7th floor make my eyes burn" |
single |
with protestations of accountability |
12 |
the pullovers |
"むてきのふたり" |
むてきのふたり +1 |
or the rush of unfurling wings. |
13 |
Hakubi |
"Rewrite" |
single |
The moment catches us amidst the vulnerable transformation from |
14 |
アカネサス |
"Otona ni Naritakunai" |
single |
celebratorily believing ourselves to resentfully doubting our invitees. |
15 |
レイラ |
"WONDERLAND" |
WONDERLAND +2 |
We pick the colors of the cloth that comes and covers up our souls, |
16 |
krage |
"夏の雪 (Chinese ver.)" |
single |
and we drag a picture of our soul onto a web page |
17 |
ONMYO-ZA |
"龍葬" |
龍凰童子 |
to have it printed on the cloth in the shape of a shirt. |
18 |
Issa |
"Seize the Day" |
Lights of Japan |
Flip it over, whatever it is. |
19 |
Shereign |
"Six Feet Deep" |
Ghost Diaries |
If it was made with love and intent, there will be something printed on the back too, |
20 |
Dark Princess |
"Taste of Freedom" |
Phoenix |
and glistening organs inside. |
21 |
Daedric |
"Alchemy" |
Alchemy 6 |
This is how you can always tell the difference between somebody earnestly telling you something they have decided to believe |
22 |
Angel Wolf-Black |
"Our Truth" |
single |
and somebody telling you where following intrinsic beliefs has directed them; |
23 |
For I Am King |
"Avarice" |
Crown |
between answers in the shape of the truth |
24 |
Liv Sin |
"I Am the Storm" |
single |
and truth in any of the innumerable shadows it casts against the background of chaos; |
25 |
Ad Infinitum |
"Seth" |
Seth +2 |
between how people talk when they're talking to you |
26 |
Twilight Aura |
"Sacred Earth" |
single |
and how they talk when they're talking past you toward some other audience they imagine |
27 |
As Everything Unfolds |
"Ultraviolet" |
Ultraviolet +2 |
and fear. |
28 |
Sabaton |
"The First Soldier" |
Heroes of the Great War |
The difference between victory and defeat is never 6%, |
29 |
The Lightbringer of Sweden |
"The beast is rising" |
The new world order |
nor a scrupulous avoidance of the literal terms of clauses meant to transcribe love |
30 |
Silver Bullet |
"Shadow Of A Curse" |
Shadowfall |
into the language of demons. |
31 |
In Victory |
"Till the Break of Dawn" |
single |
You can always have the feeling of declaring old history concluded |
32 |
Kardinal Sin |
"Siege Of Jerusalem" |
single |
by waiting to say your lines just as the gates are closing |
33 |
Legado de una Tragedia |
"Misantropía" |
Misantropía +1 |
for the night, careful to stand on the other side of them |
34 |
Twilight Force |
"At the Heart of Wintervale" |
At the Heart of Wintervale |
from everybody whose love you crave. |
35 |
Elvenking |
"The Hanging Tree" |
The Hanging Tree +1 |
But they climb the trees that hang over the walls, |
36 |
Shakra |
"Invincible" |
Invincible +1 |
and settle in the branches to watch you realize |
37 |
Nekonomicon |
"Brand New Journey" |
single |
there's nothing out here to sleep in except suddenly-expensive mud. |
38 |
Big City |
"Sons of Desire" |
Sunwind Sails |
You can't just dismiss your friends, |
39 |
Khymera |
"Hear Me Calling" |
single |
and you can't walk a shared journey without your steps and theirs |
40 |
Tygers Of Pan Tang |
"Edge of the World" |
single |
cooperating to make new paths towards places that didn't used to be places. |
41 |
Ten |
"Brave New Lie" |
Something Wicked This Way Comes |
You can breathe as deeply as you want, your hand poised to tap you into the meeting, |
42 |
First Signal |
"Shoot the Bullet" |
single |
but you still have to decide if you're going to tell them the story of loss you've practiced on yourself, |
43 |
GALNERYUS |
"RUN TO THE EDGE" |
single |
or the story of gain that begins when that dream-sequence ends, and leads everywhere. |
44 |
Shouta Aoi |
"Key to My Heart" |
single |
The key to reaching the horizons is speed. |
45 |
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION |
"宿縁" |
single |
Speed, and efficiency. |
46 |
アルコサイト |
"夢で逢えたら" |
仄かなる黎明に捧ぐ |
Speed, efficiency and a fanatic devotion to continuing to have not sold more than half the shares. |
47 |
See You Smile |
"Blue Dream" |
On Your Mark 6 |
We will start again. Will you? |
48 |
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] |
"地球という名の都" |
V |
Kurt didn't, Marshall does. Which voice lingers in your headphones |
49 |
Kumi Koda |
"It’s “K” magic" |
WINGS 6 |
after the last HRBP is nestled peacefully in their bed? |
50 |
Cecilia Gault |
"Keitai" |
single |
It takes a good leader to recognize the mistakes you've made. |
51 |
Ptolemea |
"Inspiration" |
Balanced Darkness |
The way you get that good leader back is to realize that you thrive not by minimizing reluctant admissions of past guilt |
52 |
pehmoaino |
"sisko älä pelkää" |
single |
but by inhabiting that fallibility as a current paradise. |
53 |
Nehl Aelin |
"If You Choose" |
single |
You don't put on shiny medals and climb on a short horse |
54 |
Dizzy |
"Birthmark" |
Birthmark +1 |
to see .15pp farther than the people gathered at your knees, |
55 |
Gia Lily |
"wait what" |
single |
you do it so they can see you better, and hear. |
56 |
ILLENIUM |
"Luv Me A Little (feat. Nina Nesbitt)" |
single |
"I gave you the world", you start, and then you pause, and they wait patiently |
57 |
Rebecca Black |
"Sick To My Stomach" |
single |
for you to realize that they remember all the other times you were wrong, too, |
58 |
Nerea Rodríguez |
"Por Primera Vez" |
single |
and have stayed beside you because they're going where you're going, |
59 |
Versilia |
"Donde el Corazón Me Lleve" |
single |
and want hear why you aren't somewhere far ahead of them |
60 |
Miya Folick |
"Get Out of My House" |
Get Out of My House |
on your tiny expensive horse. |
61 |
Wednesday |
"Chosen to Deserve" |
Chosen to Deserve +1 |
You want to earn the horse? |
62 |
Kate Miller-Heidke |
"The Last Day On Earth (feat. Marcus Bridge)" |
single |
You have to climb off it and talk, with the people you're with, about the journey you're sharing. |
63 |
Ladytron |
"California" |
Time's Arrow |
You have to talk with them, even the shy ones working from their rain-drenched kitchens, |
64 |
Luna Kills |
"deep cuts" |
single |
not just allow them to queue up questions to be unilaterally processed. |
65 |
Ouse |
"Wait for Me" |
single |
Sometimes you have to stand there in silence, waiting for them to find something they wanted to show you, |
66 |
Ryan Oakes |
"DOWN" |
single |
or a song they want you to hear. |
67 |
snow ellet |
"Elevator" |
Elevator +1 |
It lifted them. |
68 |
WHISPER OUT LOUD |
"STEP" |
CIRCLE OF LOVE |
It isn't magic, songs aren't magic, we don't want you to hear it so you will be changed, |
69 |
Aiko el grupo |
"Peñacastillo" |
single |
we want you to listen to it with us so you see how we allow the song to change us. |
70 |
Repion |
"Pronto" |
Pronto 5 |
Labor laws vary; |
71 |
Monteperdido |
"VAS A PETAR" |
single |
fates and failures are the same. |
72 |
Pecker |
"En los suburbios" |
Peso pluma |
Your home will fill, gradually, with useless things for which you paid too much |
73 |
Biela |
"Todo va a ir a mejor" |
single |
and talismans you found by a streetlight post as you were walking to pick up your bubble-tea order. |
74 |
Joven Dolores |
"Sin Más" |
single |
Gifts find ways to be discarded from the grip of the superfluous into the path of the needy. |
75 |
Fanáticos |
"¿Quién Te Dijo?" |
single |
It's not your job to know the future, |
76 |
levitants |
"Adelante" |
single |
nor to receive culpability for the past. |
77 |
Sugarcrush |
"María José" |
single |
You have only to love what we are doing together, |
78 |
Wakame |
"Enero" |
single |
what we could do, |
79 |
Cora Yako |
"Noche Estelar" |
Noche Estelar +1 |
what will happen without us or joyously with us. |
80 |
Vlimmer |
"Platzwort" |
single |
Not everybody has the hairline or the eyeshadow to be a supervillain. |
81 |
Sea of Sin |
"Don't Let Go - Single Edit" |
single |
Hardly anybody, really. |
82 |
Flyying Colours |
"Goodbye to Music" |
single |
The blasting call to unite to defeat evil with grand self-sacrifice is a rare and overvalued squawk. |
83 |
Batu |
"Built On Sand" |
single |
The good songs aren't good by staying on message, |
84 |
Vėlių Namai |
"Aftensinn" |
Alkai |
they're good by echoing the ghosts of other messages into the soundstage of what you think you have to say. |
85 |
Vaget |
"Jaruna" |
single |
Studied tradition, equanimous ink, moral mass, a beat: |
86 |
SKÁLD |
"Ljósálfur" |
Huldufólk |
these are all hopeful introductions |
87 |
Uuhai |
"Khurai" |
single |
to new volumes. |
88 |
Sáasil |
"Roses" |
Ephemeral |
Not "Changes aren't permanent, but change is", |
89 |
Insomnium |
"The Witch Hunter" |
single |
but "love and life are deep". |
90 |
Imperium Dekadenz |
"Forests in Gale" |
Into Sorrow Evermore |
What you say about our company is what we say to society. |
91 |
Dead Wasteland |
"Black Rose" |
single |
Fools obey commands. |
92 |
Leipa |
"Fremdkörper" |
Reue |
We chose to arrive here, our rewards unpromised, |
93 |
Vitrail |
"Cette source" |
Le mépris du monde |
not because we distrust the rest of the world, |
94 |
Atrocity |
"Teufelsmarsch" |
OKKULT III |
but to dance: |
95 |
Full Of Hell |
"Rubble Home" |
single |
among ruins, when storms bring ruins; |
96 |
Stömb |
"The Realm of Delirium" |
single |
loyally oblivious in periodic darkness; |
97 |
Hypno5e |
"Lava from the Sky" |
Lava from the Sky +2 |
burned by debris from beyond our control; |
98 |
Isole |
"The Songs of the Whales" |
single |
but justified by the sound. |
99 |
The Ocean |
"Preboreal" |
single |
We have come to be the ones who carry us from before to during. |
100 |
Oak Pantheon |
"Dissociate" |
The Absence |
Severance is our privilege, not yours. |
101 |
Katatonia |
"Colossal Shade" |
Sky Void of Stars |
You may not know our names, |
102 |
Redemption |
"Seven Minutes from Sunset" |
Seven Minutes from Sunset +1 |
or the maps of our journeys home, magnanimously deferred so that we can be here, |
103 |
Riverside |
"Friend or Foe?" |
ID.Entity (Deluxe Edition) |
but we are the substance of your legacy. |
104 |
Haken |
"Taurus" |
Taurus +2 |
"We have no choice but retreat?" All definitions of choice are phrased in movement. |
105 |
Cosmograf |
"A Better World" |
Heroic Materials |
"I gave you the world", you start, |
106 |
Sepha. |
"the moon is on fire" |
single |
and there it is in the sky, burning, with all the other beautiful useless corporate rocks you gave us in welcome. |
107 |
Sleaford Mods |
"UK GRIM" |
single |
Nobility is not always the intent of our expressions. |
108 |
Cornelius SA |
"Center of the Soul" |
single |
We didn't choose to arrive here, exactly, listening to you describing your philosophical entitlement of puppetry, |
109 |
Nhii |
"Rusted Rose" |
Rusted Rose +1 |
but do not mis-deduce that this implies we need to have our next step directed |
110 |
Msaki |
"Zibonakalise - Radio Edit" |
single |
or motivated. |
111 |
Kelly Khumalo |
"Uzoma" |
single |
We know where to find the music, |
112 |
Joeboy |
"Body & Soul" |
single |
and we know that it forgives us for what we lose on the way, |
113 |
Lwah Ndlunkulu |
"Ngiyeza" |
single |
mislayed gifts that somebody else will find next to a streetlight. |
114 |
Umdumazi |
"Ngakutheka" |
Iphutha |
Every language has a word for "maybe", |
115 |
Phathizwe Ntuli |
"Idanasoli" |
single |
and thus all of our disguises are facets of people we could still become. |
116 |
Thulebuka |
"Ngibhalele" |
Angaliwa Mina |
Give up on one of us, you give up on yourself; |
117 |
Ntozabantu |
"Asibulawa" |
single |
believe in all of us, and we will write a story that doesn't end here. |
118 |
Maredi |
"Wa Ditoro Mmapelo" |
Mmapelo 3 |
We do not become twice as strong by shrinking our hearts to 94% of their size, |
119 |
Methuli Mlungwana |
"Suku nkungu emihlweni ami - Special Version" |
single |
but by learning to hear "Here we are now, entertain us" as a wedding song. |
120 |
Kirsten Adamson |
"My Father's Songs" |
single |
We have the sun and moon as gifts. You can feel how we must feel. |
121 |
Ruston Kelly |
"The Weakness" |
single |
We don't give in to the weakness. |
122 |
Ptolemea |
"Balanced Darkness" |
Balanced Darkness |
We don't make robots in our image to take over our chores, but to show us what it looks like when we do them heartlessly. |
123 |
Shereign |
"Strong" |
Ghost Diaries |
We don't band together to infuse a single purpose with more certainty, |
124 |
Issa |
"It's Over" |
Lights of Japan |
we do it to shred selfishness's conviction. |
125 |
Broken Peach |
"What A Feeling" |
single |
"Positioned for the future" is our fond attempt to make you feel less bad for standing around, not yet unscared of dancing, less like that defines you. |
126 |
Megaraptor |
"A Thousand Miles" |
single |
The distance from the wall to the center of the floor is short, and yet crosses worlds, |
127 |
Agordas |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
transcends negotiations. |
128 |
The Animal In Me |
"Kill Bill" |
single |
Would you rather be here alone? |
129 |
Aedliga |
"Streets of Cambridge" |
single |
Take back every broken word, and the way you said goodbye, and we'll see you in the morning. |