1 |
Yves Tumor |
"Lovely Sewer" |
Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) |
A spiritual cosmology that derives from Eve's gnawing cancer, |
2 |
Geographer |
"I Don't Remember It Starting" |
single |
rather than one of Adam's most expendable bones, |
3 |
Monika |
"Listen Close" |
PROUD |
situates us not in a patriarchal lineage |
4 |
MILCK |
"Metamorphosis" |
single |
but an existential unraveling of identity. |
5 |
Ayşe Betül |
"Çekiyorum Gülümse" |
single |
I made up this reading of Yves' name, |
6 |
Belén Aguilera |
"PAS" |
single |
but it sounds plausible, |
7 |
Bad Gyal Jade |
"Black Tears" |
single |
and isn't that how we do it now? |
8 |
Vanessa Bling |
"Beautiful" |
single |
And isn't that kind of how we've been doing it for a while, anyway, |
9 |
Nobantu Vilakazi |
"Bhuti" |
single |
as expedience over conscience |
10 |
Anna Phoebe |
"Selkie" |
single |
and effect over purpose, |
11 |
Ellereve |
"The Empty Chair" |
The Empty Chair +2 |
so objecting at the point of automation is performatively too late. |
12 |
Black Honey |
"Rock Bottom" |
A Fistful of Peaches |
The AI, trained on our yearning, learns to yearn too much. |
13 |
Lana Del Rabies |
"Forgive" |
Strega Beata |
Do we remember when we started not listening closely enough |
14 |
Caroline Shaw |
"The Isle: III. Caliban" |
single |
to tell the difference |
15 |
Eluvium |
"Void Manifest" |
Void Manifest / Clockwork Fables 2 |
between metamorphosis and just lying about our names? |
16 |
Tenhi |
"Saattue" |
single |
Even our brashest lies have been whispering their pain. |
17 |
Majesty |
"Freedom Child" |
single |
Learning to drown this out is both a betrayal of our future |
18 |
Last in Line |
"House Party at the End of the World" |
House Party At The End Of The World 3 |
and a basic survival skill. |
19 |
Revolution Saints |
"Crime of the Century" |
single |
Which century would we like to live in? |
20 |
Redemption |
"The Emotional Depiction of Light" |
I Am the Storm |
The ones made of ancient numbers or the one that starts today? |
21 |
Einar Solberg |
"A Beautiful Life" |
A Beautiful Life +1 |
Like a lot of good questions, it's not good as a result of how we choose to answer it. |
22 |
Narnia |
"Thief" |
Ghost Town |
It's good because it reminds us that portals between worlds are artifacts of perspective. |
23 |
Kamelot |
"The Great Divide" |
The Awakening |
All the universes we can imagine are equally real. |
24 |
Suotana |
"The Ancient" |
Ounas I |
We create. |
25 |
Heathen Foray |
"Oathbreaker" |
Oathbreaker +2 |
We forget in order to make space to recreate. |
26 |
Prevail in Darkness |
"All That Avails Is Flight" |
single |
We lie about names because that's the only way they exist, |
27 |
Atlases |
"Singulars" |
single |
maybe the only way we exist. |
28 |
Foretoken |
"A Tyrant Rises as Titans Fall" |
Triumphs |
We invent nemeses because who else is going to? |
29 |
Reino de Hades |
"Árido Edén" |
single |
We crawled out of the sea with the water right behind us. |
30 |
Valley of Chrome |
"Luha Ng Kaaway" |
single |
We comfort our enemies with release |
31 |
Cisza |
"Jaki piękny świat" |
Jaki piękny świat +3 |
when they only asked to remain. |
32 |
Hyrgal |
"Phalanges Assassines" |
single |
Enter this into the minutes of the guild of the end: |
33 |
Óreiða |
"The Eternal" |
single |
we discarded our gifts as if they would be perpetually regiven, |
34 |
Heretoir |
"Anima" |
single |
and then begrudged each other's surreptitious judgment. |
35 |
Downfall Of Gaia |
"The Whir of Flies" |
Silhouettes of Disgust |
Little wonder that all our best plagues have followed us into the whir of files. |
36 |
Dødheimsgard |
"Abyss Perihelion Transit" |
single |
Our origin and our doom are magnetic shards |
37 |
Stömb |
"The Realm of Delirium" |
Massive Disturbed Meta Art |
pinched on either side of a thrumming membrane that might be our sanity, |
38 |
Vintersea |
"At the Gloaming Void" |
single |
which is as much of why any movement of either one seems like inexplicable magic |
39 |
Smoulder |
"The Talisman and the Blade" |
single |
as it is of why our journey from one to the other sometimes seems to cover no actual distance. |
40 |
Metalite |
"Take My Hand" |
Take My Hand +1 |
The power of the subtle knife is not that it subverts theocracies, |
41 |
Phantom Elite |
"Daydark" |
Blue Blood |
it's that it reminds us to offer mutual transformation. |
42 |
The Dark Side of the Moon |
"The Gates of Time" |
The Gates of Time +3 |
The theocracies will inevitably subvert themselves. |
43 |
Asylum Pyre |
"There, I Could Die" |
single |
The gods have other problems. |
44 |
Silent Utopia |
"My Human Nature" |
single |
It's us who need our belief, |
45 |
Transworld Identity |
"I'm Such a Liar" |
Seven Worlds |
us who need names so badly that we are willing to burn them as fast as we sign, |
46 |
Elysion |
"Blink Of An Eye" |
Bring Out Your Dead |
inhaling each moment so we can hope to remember how it smelled |
47 |
Phantom Divine |
"Babylon" |
single |
after we forget how to tell any story in which it wasn't already foregone. |
48 |
Eternal Frequency |
"Running from Ghosts" |
single |
You can't prevent the impossible with diligence. |
49 |
Rain Paris |
"Pain // Happiness" |
single |
They can only coexist. |
50 |
As December Falls |
"Alive" |
single |
Our explanations are demonstrations in diaphanous fabric, |
51 |
Divina PH |
"Burn The Bridge" |
IntroSpections |
so eliciting nominal explanations from the unlovelorn is a like dressing a tolerant pet |
52 |
Angel Wolf-Black |
"Haunted" |
single |
as your intolerant ghosts. |
53 |
Liv Kristine |
"In Your Blue Eyes" |
single |
The things you love, you don't hurl to be returned in the mouths of dogs |
54 |
ARLEQUIN |
"Tebanashite tsukamu zero" |
single |
or commission to be biographied by the heartless. |
55 |
Royz |
"raizin" |
raizin +3 |
You reach out for their hands, or the warmth of their sleeping skin. |
56 |
SCANDAL |
"Line of sight" |
single |
You watch them, quietly, as they prepare clatteringly to depart. |
57 |
AOIRO-ICHIGO |
"Denshi No Umi Wa Ao Yori Fukaku" |
No. 1 |
You find them in their heedless atoms, |
58 |
may in film |
"fanfare" |
single |
and celebrate that they cohere. |
59 |
ヤユヨ |
"このままじゃ" |
SPIRAL 5 |
You find ways to continue. |
60 |
Hakubi |
"Tensai nimo Shusai nimo Narenakatta Boku Wa" |
Eye |
You wait for the flash, in your eyes or theirs, |
61 |
peanut butters |
"悪魔くん" |
single |
when everything you know about each other is not quite enough to have predicted what happens now. |
62 |
Luby Sparks |
"I was..." |
single |
What happens now? You draw ellipses and wait to become. |
63 |
illiomote |
"Mid" |
HMN</3 4 |
If these new augmented journeys are going to transport us, |
64 |
Mr.FanTastiC |
"fine II" |
II 3 |
it will not be because our joys have been recategorized as tedia to be obviated, |
65 |
kobore |
"TONIGHT" |
HUG |
it will be because these obtuse interpolations reveal things we felt too acutely to say ourselves, |
66 |
anewhite |
"サナギ" |
anew |
things that needed to be sung in syllables not present in the languages we grew up muttering, |
67 |
BBHF |
"クリーチャー" |
4PIES 4 |
grounded things that were only ever afraid to fly. |
68 |
WHITE JAM |
"ICE CREAM" |
COLORS -Type White- |
Modernity ended with the Pet Rock, and post-Rock began. |
69 |
LOCAL CONNECT |
"Maybe You" |
DETOUR 4 |
Maybe you remember, |
70 |
Flyying Colours |
"Never Forget" |
You Never Know |
or maybe you always knew: |
71 |
Seelenkraft |
"Irgendwann wird alles gut" |
Zeilen der Zeit |
impersonal technology waits for us to personify it, |
72 |
Saarkie |
"Feeling Good" |
single |
dreaming of us calling it by names, |
73 |
Diagnóstico Binario |
"Refugio" |
Miscelánea |
but the epiphanies are always the moments when we look through the machines and see some other human's eye. |
74 |
Cómplices |
"Llámame" |
single |
Our fingers on paper, across ink; |
75 |
Álvaro De Luna |
"Todo Contigo" |
single |
our dreams amongst the words. |
76 |
Pol 3.14 |
"Con los zapatos llenos de barro" |
single |
Somebody plays slow chords on a piano in a park. |
77 |
Da Igual |
"Tatuado A Fuego" |
single |
The wood and wires were contingencies even before they met the weather |
78 |
Susana Cala |
"Tiempo Indefinido" |
single |
and resolved to leave us, |
79 |
Sugarcrush |
"HER" |
single |
and we found them sitting on the kitchen floor writing giddy drafts of goodbye. |
80 |
Celia Es Celíaca |
"Melodías" |
Melodías +3 |
Our buoyant anthems and restorative hymns |
81 |
Pohgoh |
"Your New Old Apartment" |
Signals Midwest / Pohgoh (Tor Johnson Records 20th Anniversary Subscription Series) 2 |
are new covers of each other's timeless doubts. |
82 |
Shit Present |
"More To Lose" |
More to Lose 3 |
Which sanctuary would we like to live without? |
83 |
The Dollyrots |
"Hey Girl" |
Hey Girl +1 |
The one haloed in permanent rainbows |
84 |
Oscar the Wild |
"Pinch Me Please" |
single |
or the one where we end up untouched? |
85 |
Steg G |
"Vultures" |
Demons |
All the apocalypses we can invoke are memoirs of fears we have already collected. |
86 |
T.E.F |
"The Fire" |
single |
We write them on kindling. |
87 |
Novelist |
"ALL I KNOW" |
single |
We protest. |
88 |
Dan Bull |
"Satisfactory Night Fever" |
Satisfactory Night Fever +1 |
Parody is more effective, |
89 |
JPEGMAFIA |
"Lean Beef Patty" |
single |
but neither one is as revolutionary as walking away, |
90 |
boyband |
"FRONTO!!" |
FRONTO!! +1 |
or not even away, which presupposes that we were anywhere to begin with. |
91 |
fish narc |
"Opposites" |
single |
We are facing each other in the middle of infinite space; |
92 |
Smrtdeath |
"sad crown" |
single |
if we preside over any discernible domain, |
93 |
Sixth House |
"Afraid" |
single |
it is the kingdom of how we keep each other just barely warm and calm enough to function in this terrifying void. |
94 |
Red Cell |
"Good Morning, Good Light" |
Red Cell |
You can always tell the difference between a human who loves how humanity becomes technology |
95 |
The Dark Atom |
"Nova" |
Freaking Machines 2 |
and a machine for grinding souls in a box with soulless pictures of smiling people on the outside. |
96 |
Ruston Kelly |
"Michael Keaton" |
Michael Keaton +2 |
The problem with the soul-grinder has nothing to do with whether the people are photographed or synthesized, |
97 |
Riley Pearce |
"Habit" |
single |
or whether they were smiling about something when they were implicated or inferred. |
98 |
Bruce Cockburn |
"Colin Went Down to the Water" |
single |
"But we have so many souls," they say, explaining the ingenious emergent simplicity of learning to grind souls |
99 |
Tinariwen |
"Tenere Den" |
single |
by allowing grinding parameters to outnumber grindable souls. |
100 |
Sanda Magubane |
"Uyarokha" |
single |
"Brrrrghbrrbhlrlrr", we say, some kind of noise we make with our lips when we need to exhale before we've figured out how to be polite about the breath you have wasted. |
101 |
Nhii |
"Be My Lover" |
single |
There's bound to be some way to blame Eve for what happened to her. And Adam? Where do we even start? |
102 |
David Jones David |
"Lift me up" |
single |
We've already thought of all the ways we may have been wrong. They're easy to find if that's all you can think to look for. |
103 |
Hafensaengers |
"Mein größter Feind bin Ich" |
Cover Up 3 |
We're our only enemies. |
104 |
Killus |
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! - ABBA Version" |
single |
Prayer is useless, but grandly knowing uselessness is also kind of the foundation of all art, |
105 |
Violet Orlandi |
"Closer" |
single |
no more flawed than anything else we love, or are. |