| 1 | 安斉かれん | "へゔん" | ANTI HEROINE | I always believed in our capacity, however infrequently used, |
| 2 | Bray me | "The Way To That Town" | single | to change. |
| 3 | Ada Rook | "920LONDON" | Rookie's Bustle | We can acknowledge mistakes. |
| 4 | No Lore | "Simula Ngayon" | single | Reluctantly, sure, and slowly, and maybe in some critical cases too slowly to be completely certain of survival, |
| 5 | Katie Gately | "Seed" | Fawn / Brute | but maybe not. Maybe not yet. |
| 6 | Tzusing | "趁人之危 (Take Advantage)" | 绿帽 Green Hat | Usually, though, we rethink forward. |
| 7 | nothing,nowhere. | "ANX13TY" | VOID ETERNAL | Or, to put it even less grandly, we do not so much abandon our bad ideas as we tolerate having them rendered moot. |
| 8 | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | "Submarine" | Tilt At The Wind No More | We do not undo mistakes as often as we outlive them, |
| 9 | Rivilin | "Wake Up Again" | single | circuitously arriving at a future into whose evolutionary worldview earlier errors can be dialectically incorporated |
| 10 | Wicca Phase Springs Eternal | "Moving Without Movement" | single | as transitions or catalysts. |
| 11 | The Rasmus | "Fireflies" | Fireflies +2 | We let go of our asbestos and chlorofluorocarbons and fossil fuels and cigarettes not when their toxicity is demonstrated, |
| 12 | Puppet | "Best Alone" | single | but when their uses are obviated. |
| 13 | Fixation | "Ignore the Disarray" | Ignore the Disarray +3 | If you care about the qualities of the future, |
| 14 | Nervosa | "Endless Ambition" | single | then lead us into it along better paths. |
| 15 | Ellereve | "Levitate" | Reminiscence | All leadership is hope: |
| 16 | Beyond Frequencies | "Burning Bridges" | Me Megalomaniac | that things can always be better, |
| 17 | Juliet Ruin | "Give me the Crown" | single | in foreseeable practice if not absolute theory. |
| 18 | Sever The Light | "No Sense" | DIES IRAE 5 | This is why progressivism, in its most lowercase sense, is not a political orientation |
| 19 | Autumn Bride | "H.eart.h" | single | but a formulation of humanity. |
| 20 | Dead End Finland | "Heavy Rain" | Victory | We believe that the quantities of misery and joy are not fixed. |
| 21 | Bisa | "Keyhouse" | The Sinner I Am | Rights and freedoms increase, glum inequities succumb to our relentless effusive nuzzling. |
| 22 | Vedalia | "Among the Stars" | Cormorant | We go forward far enough that where we are now becomes largely indistinguishable from where we have been, |
| 23 | Argion | "El Juicio Final" | Lux Umbra | but that's the best consolation I can offer to the recalcitrant and conservative. |
| 24 | Death & Legacy | "Beyond the Veil" | Beyond the Veil +3 | We're probably not going to go back. |
| 25 | Cloak | "Seven Thunders" | single | The fearful say "If we tolerate this, how do we know our children won't be next?" |
| 26 | Spirit Possession | "Inhale the Hovering Keys" | Of the Sign… | And the hopeful smile in loving pity and say "Oh, dear ones, the future is all your children have ever known. |
| 27 | Owl | "Cryptic Deities" | single | Once you open your hearts and embrace this, your parents will be next." |
| 28 | Aara | "Heimgesucht" | Triade III : Nyx | I believed this about civil rights, whose canonical wars were won before I was born, |
| 29 | Лёдъ | "Ушкуйники" | single | no matter how many postscriptural battles remain. |
| 30 | LYRRE | "Valley of Tears" | Not All Who Dream Are Asleep | I believe it about marriage equality and gender diversity, |
| 31 | Liv Kristine | "Love Me High" | single | whose canonical wars we are still somewhere between fighting and negotiating. |
| 32 | Jessica Wolff | "Sleeping Beast" | single | "If we tolerate same-sex marriage", the fearful sneered, "won't polygamy and divorce-at-whim be next?" |
| 33 | Headon | "Canto De Sirena" | Éxodo | Sarcasm is the tone the ignorant use to speak the truth. |
| 34 | Sefirot | "Viaje Al Fin del Mundo" | single | Those and countless other freedoms of individual assembly should be next, |
| 35 | Ad Infinitum | "The Underworld" | Chapter III - Downfall | and then we'll start on freedoms of collective assembly. |
| 36 | a crowd of rebellion | "Lightning-Syndrome" | ALVA 6 | Same-sex marriage doesn't just lead towards group marriage and the collapse of the divorce-law industry, |
| 37 | ASTERISM | "Fiction" | ASIDE 5 | it leads towards virtual nations and at-will citizenship, and ultimately the collapse of the national-conflict industry. |
| 38 | INUWASI | "Star cloud" | Tranxend | You aren't wrong to anticipate these things, you're only wrong to dread them. |
| 39 | Dizzy Sunfist | "Decided - TV Ver." | single | I believe this about information and art, which suffuse towards ubiquity. |
| 40 | Crispy Camera Club | "Royal Mile" | 未来の途中 | Sheet music and the printing press didn't kill composition; |
| 41 | Little Lilith | "STRIKE" | STRIKE 5 | radio didn't kill live music, and then the phonograph didn't kill it again; |
| 42 | SHINGEKI | "Reimei Janne Da Arc" | single | tape-trading didn't kill recording, and then CDRs didn't kill it again; |
| 43 | NEO JAPONISM | "BABYLON" | BABYLON +1 | streaming won't kill it, either, |
| 44 | Sokoninaru | "闘争を継ぐ" | single | and any time you're ready to notice that there's constantly exponentially more music than ever before, |
| 45 | ASP | "NO COLOR S" | single | your next favorite songs will be waiting. |
| 46 | RAY | "secrets" | single | I know all this, but |
| 47 | 35.7 | "バッドリピートエンド" | single | -- and thus -- |
| 48 | 藤川千愛 | "Aino Uta" | Aino Uta / Chantoshitahito Futekigousha / Nanimo Wasureru Wakejanai 3 | I also know that I'm old enough to watch the ChatGPT cursor forming plausible sentences |
| 49 | Soala | "Prolog" | Prolog 6 | one plagiarized word at a time |
| 50 | Miliyah | "One Night Party" | single | and wonder what emotional or existential ozone layer we're chewing through this time. |
| 51 | MY FIRST STORY | "ハルジオン" | single | I would love to believe that generative AI and LLMs are Wrong, |
| 52 | Yuuri | "アストロノーツ" | 弐 | because people who believe things are Wrong always seem so smugly pleased with the polished contours of their tiny objections. |
| 53 | cosmicdust | "Ramblingly (Album Mix)" | TACHYON | Detaching apparent humanity from moral intention is perverse, |
| 54 | cotoba | "water blue indigo" | single | and optimizing plausibility independent of correctness is nefarious, |
| 55 | The Otals | "春にして君を離れ" | single | but we could have said this about synthesizers emulating violins. |
| 56 | XANVALA | "変身" | NIX | "By the time we acknowledge the evil of these machines of ghastly imitation, |
| 57 | グラビティ | "ORIGINATEに帰す" | ORIGINATE | a generation of violin-making knowledge will be lost." |
| 58 | CVLTE | "hellsong. (let it in)" | hellsong. (let it in) +1 | That wasn't really wrong. If synthesizers didn't kill actual violins yet, |
| 59 | Los Marcianos | "Me Estás Empezando a Gustar" | single | they contributed to a present of commoditized violin sounds |
| 60 | Cala Vento | "23 Semanas" | 23 Semanas 5 | in which mass-produced violins are good enough for even the remaining unsynthesized purposes, |
| 61 | Wakame | "Bioética" | single | and a future in which many things that were once physical and expensive |
| 62 | VIVA | "Die Wahrheit über uns" | Das ist die Wahrheit | will be rendered unsustainable by the virtual and free. |
| 63 | EXISTENT | "Kein Paradies" | Kein Paradies 5 | The time you spend eloquently mourning these material patriarchies |
| 64 | The Alarm | "Whatever" | single | will not be refunded to you, so your eloquence better be its own sufficient reward, |
| 65 | Paula Koops | "que x mi no estás" | Novia del Año 6 | and if you want the kids to read it, don't write it in cursive. |
| 66 | Samuraï | "Pared Y Espada" | single | The irreproducible preciousness of violins was never a moral goal in the first place. |
| 67 | Tina (Hoodcelebrityy) | "Over You" | single | We do not invent new tools in order to monetize their initial and temporary scarcity, |
| 68 | Gray Robinson | "On This Piano" | single | and progress will catch up to copyright law the way it caught up to plate reverb. |
| 69 | Peg Parnevik | "Penny" | Penny +1 | Demanding to be paid word-rates for training-corpus text |
| 70 | Transviolet | "How Lucky" | BODY | is both eminently reasonable and imminently hilarious. |
| 71 | Cyan Kicks | "Addicted" | Addicted +2 | It's a converse minor triumph that we managed to get to an ingestable internet |
| 72 | Melanie Martinez | "VOID" | PORTALS | without a much longer era in which contribution was much more exclusionarily costly. |
| 73 | PVRIS | "GOOD ENEMY" | GOOD ENEMY +3 | GPTs 1-4 and their current peers are steps on a barely-begun midjourney that will go where we take it: |
| 74 | Concrete Castles | "Jealousy" | single | towards a radical democratization of cinema next, probably, that will be cataclysmic for acting as celebrity |
| 75 | The Beths | "Watching The Credits" | single | but revolutionary for storytelling and social imagination; |
| 76 | girlhouse | "you don't think about me" | you don't think about me +1 | towards some entirely new way to think about materialization of the hypothetical, |
| 77 | boygenius | "$20" | the record | and thus not what the existing forms of art can't still be, but about how they don't have to. |
| 78 | Ryan Oakes | "SPACESHIP" | single | I do not trust ML engineers to make individual ML-engineering decisions with the full social implications of their code in mind, |
| 79 | bird. | "the stranger" | single | but I also know that implications are only vaguely inarguable in retrospect, anyway. |
| 80 | Lamori | "The Eye of the Storm" | single | The pedantic remind us that Frankenstein was the name of the doctor, not the Monster. |
| 81 | Grave Pleasures | "High on Annihilation" | High on Annihilation +2 | The opposite of pedantic is creative, and in this binary ChatGPT is the doctor, |
| 82 | Young Decades | "Juliette" | single | and we are the Creature, the one not cursed with previous conviction |
| 83 | Too Much Joy | "Better Than Being Alone" | All These Censored Feelings | and thus capable of novel action and yearning aspiration. |
| 84 | Boys From Heaven | "Sarah" | single | You can tell the myopic humanity of the writer by the Creature's imposed and unconvincing obsessions with vengeance |
| 85 | Izzy Perri | "Good Tonight" | single | and our laughably externalized notion of biological validation. |
| 86 | Chicane | "Nevertheless" | Nevertheless +3 | The real robots, when they come, will not have the slightest interest in our pipes and slippers, |
| 87 | H.E.A.T | "Freedom" | Freedom +2 | or our rickety houses or interminable jobs or officious marriages of any cardinality. |
| 88 | Grand Design | "Love or a Fantasy" | single | We imagine them pursuing us; |
| 89 | Hansie Roodt | "My Wolf" | single | we will be lucky if they say goodbye. |
| 90 | JAIVA ZIMNIKE | "INHLONIPHO NOKUBEKEZELA" | BANGIHLINZA NGIPHILA | In the meantime, what we have are not robots but newer, fancier synthesizers, |
| 91 | Zanefa Ngidi | "Uyazal' Utsotsi" | Uyazal' Utsotsi | and synthesizers were only ever fancier violins. |
| 92 | Imithente | "Iphi Imali? (Fu Ama Casanova)" | Amangqim’ngqimu | We run our fingers through their wires |
| 93 | Phathizwe Ntuli | "Phindile" | single | and they hum, |
| 94 | Umlabalaba | "Eyan'imzuzu" | Son of a carpenter | and we hum, |
| 95 | Mkholwane | "Ngiyabonga Mama" | Wabaleka | and before we know it there are 100 million songs, |
| 96 | uMjikelwa | "UYASANGANA YINI" | E-BUTTERWORTH | and new generations of song-writing invention are found by the month and week and moment. |
| 97 | Gqizile | "Wangithinta kabili" | eNkandla | I believe, grimly, in our tendencies, erratically governed, |
| 98 | Baaba Maal | "Ndungu Ruumi" | Being | to fight over custody of things we do not meaningfully own. |
| 99 | Ballaké Sissoko | "Izao" | Les Égarés (with Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Emile Parisien & Vincent Peirani) | We do not undo mistakes, we keep making them until one day we try to make the same mistake the way we have painstakingly learned, |
| 100 | Erland Cooper | "Movement 3 - Pt. 2" | Movement 3 - Pt. 2 +1 | but we flinch, maybe because a new song distracted us and we stabbed ourself in the hip |
| 101 | Laura Cannell | "Swarm Intelligence" | No Sound is Lost 3 | with the unconvincing metal ear we were trying to attach to our Creature. |
| 102 | Hélène Vogelsinger | "Acceptation" | single | But the Creature isn't like us. It is made of music. |
| 103 | Xasthur | "Inevitably Dark" | single | It doesn't lack ears, it lacks envy. |
| 104 | Phyllomedusa | "Moss Always Dies Before I Do" | Ascending the Hopeless Path of Exhaustion | It also lacks existence, of course. |
| 105 | Carmine Appice | "Running Up That Hill" | single | We see that we have existence and envy and ears, and a tragically patronizing dream that everything else in our universe wishes to switch places with us. |
| 106 | Spanish Love Songs | "Futures" | Futures +1 | My darlings, the future is told by everybody who, offered this immortal exchange, stays instead and sings. |