1 |
MUNA |
"One That Got Away" |
single |
We don't need more Drake songs. |
2 |
The Secret Chord |
"Kepler 452b" |
Fermi Paradox |
I don't mean that there's anything wrong with the ones we have, |
3 |
Christine and the Queens |
"True love (feat. 070 Shake)" |
True love (feat. 070 Shake) +1 |
I mean that the pace at which Drake produces them is completely acceptable. |
4 |
Florence + The Machine |
"Mermaids" |
Dance Fever |
The pace at which any artist makes art is, by definition, as fast as we need them to work, |
5 |
Sophie Ellis-Bextor |
"Lost in the Sunshine" |
Lost In The Sunshine 3 |
and this includes once-productive artists not currently producing art at all, |
6 |
Juli |
"Irgendwann" |
Irgendwann 6 |
for any reasons of their own, such as disillusionment or having become dead. |
7 |
Belén Aguilera |
"NADIE ME HA PREGUNTADO" |
single |
An AI to create new Nick Drake songs would make more sense, |
8 |
Paola Pinar |
"No me la juegas (feat. Cristina Len)" |
single |
but still no sense. |
9 |
RIELL |
"Antis" |
Antis +2 |
He sang what he sang, |
10 |
Anna Puu |
"Rakkaus tappaa" |
single |
in a way that was morally inimitable but practically inspirational, |
11 |
Maija Vilkkumaa |
"Maria" |
single |
and if you want more songs that sound like that, |
12 |
PUTOCHINOMARICÓN |
"íntró (éstádó cónstánté dé críngé)" |
Afong (Mordió La Mano Del Amo) |
sing them. His memory is now yours. |
13 |
Bambie Thug |
"Egregore" |
single |
We do not need to reanimate the dead in effigy, |
14 |
Dream Wife |
"Orbit" |
Orbit +2 |
nor do we need to interpolate the inextant. |
15 |
Against The Current |
""good guy"" |
single |
We are not short of ourselves. |
16 |
Taylor Acorn |
"Coma" |
single |
We do, however, need to fix the planet's un-human-conducive climate-drift |
17 |
Izzy T |
"Catch Myself" |
Catch Myself +1 |
and figure out how to stop having wars |
18 |
Alaska Reid |
"She Wonders" |
She Wonders +1 |
and patch the zero- and million-day vulnerabilities in our squishy bodies. |
19 |
Fayence Dream |
"Let It Go" |
single |
If AI is going to change everything, |
20 |
The Band CAMINO |
"What Am I Missing?" |
What Am I Missing? +1 |
it should start with something useful. |
21 |
Nightly |
"dry eyes" |
single |
I'm an atheist, but I understand why a story of a returning messiah |
22 |
FLORIO |
"The One" |
single |
doesn't begin with Him demonstrating His divinity by showing you a picture of Kermit in a WWI uniform |
23 |
Enter Shikari |
"A Kiss for the Whole World x" |
A Kiss for the Whole World |
and then offering to sell you a personal "happy birthday" in Donald Trump's exact voice. |
24 |
Hunter Hayes |
"High Tide" |
Red Sky |
In the fanciest extrapolations from the history of rising seas, as in the simplest, |
25 |
Ed Sheeran |
"Boat" |
Boat +1 |
we drown. |
26 |
Jesse Clegg |
"Called To Hear Your Voice" |
single |
We are scatterlings and children of scatterlings, |
27 |
Arliston |
"Pisco Sours" |
single |
and we do not always live up to our potential, |
28 |
The Front Bottoms |
"Outlook" |
single |
but in failing to do so, we do not forfeit it. |
29 |
Wrest |
"Keep Going" |
single |
We get to try again, if we survive, the "we" that means the survivors. |
30 |
kanon |
"About Love" |
single |
Songs, unlike sunrises, are about. |
31 |
Naked Identity Created by King |
"IDEA" |
Vivid Candy 3 |
Nick Drake would have been 75 this year, and no doubt a generator could produce an image of that, |
32 |
LIKE A KID |
"SORRY" |
single |
after which its engineers would owe us an apology. |
33 |
時を唄えば |
"半信半疑" |
single |
Train an AI to apologize for its own encoded hubris, first, |
34 |
milet |
"コイコガレ" |
single |
or the conversation begins nowhere. |
35 |
Bray me |
"Sincere" |
single |
We have dreamed of sentient weapons for so long |
36 |
Homecomings |
"Lapse" |
New Neighbors |
that we are ready to infer theories of self and ordnance onto word-extruders, |
37 |
Atomic Skipper |
"ココロ" |
single |
by our own belief, |
38 |
帰りの会 |
"銀河鉄道" |
single |
but belief is the most dangerous part of that, and the least new. |
39 |
Mari Hamada |
"Escape From Freedom" |
Soar |
Anticipating AGI apocalypse is the worst kind of techno-nihilism. |
40 |
MAD JAMIE |
"NONFICTION" |
single |
Maybe a robot could take your job, |
41 |
昼食彼女 Lunch Girls |
"開戰宣言" |
開戰宣言 +1 |
but other humans could have taken it already, |
42 |
Isiliel |
"浄土独唱" |
single |
and if you don't want to do it, you should probably let them. |
43 |
Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai |
"ロミオとシンデレラ" |
single |
Anything you can automate becomes teleologically neutral and thus morally obsolete. |
44 |
Tulip |
"Starseed" |
single |
We could send robots to colonize Mars, and accomplish nothing; |
45 |
Sefirot |
"Desde Tu Sombra" |
single |
add just one human to the mission, chosen carefully, |
46 |
Eleine |
"Never Forget" |
Never Forget +1 |
and at least we would have a productive use of penis-shaped rockets; |
47 |
Against Myself |
"The Tempest" |
Tides Of Insanity |
add a community and we would have a human diaspora |
48 |
As Everything Unfolds |
"Saint or Rogue" |
Ultraviolet |
out of this maybe-poisoned well. |
49 |
Saurom |
"El Pájaro Fantasma" |
single |
Precarious years accelerate into ungovernable weeks and unmanageable moments, |
50 |
Liv Kristine |
"Our Immortal Day" |
River of Diamonds |
and yet somehow we still write songs about forever |
51 |
Anna Fiori |
"Torments of My Past" |
single |
or forevers occluded, |
52 |
Sirenia |
"Deadlight" |
Deadlight +1 |
arrayed in gothic grace. |
53 |
RedHook |
"Inarticulate" |
Postcard From A Living Hell |
Show me a talking machine with the sense to shut up, |
54 |
Evermore |
"I Am the Flame" |
In Memoriam |
or enough curiosity to be distracted, |
55 |
Mob Rules |
"Hymn Of The Damned" |
single |
or enough self-awareness for hypothesis to be heroic. |
56 |
Immortal |
"Wargod" |
Wargod +1 |
Show me gods, for once, that are not iconographs of our weaknesses. |
57 |
Dååth |
"The Philosopher (feat. Dan Sugarman, Ice Nine Kills & Rafael Trujillo)" |
single |
Show me the empty appointed shells of sinecurial oracles |
58 |
All For Metal |
"Mountain of Power" |
Mountain of Power 5 |
who quit the mountains of answers in search of more questions than the ones they were given. |
59 |
Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution |
"Golden Age Of Music" |
Golden Age Of Music +2 |
Show me a new song made out of love of old songs, |
60 |
Revolution Saints |
"Kids Will Be Kids" |
Eagle Flight |
or out of the love that fills the spaces not filled with old songs. |
61 |
Emotional Fire |
"Will You Be There" |
Will You Be There +3 |
Nostalgia is a currency you cannot virtualize, |
62 |
Art Nation |
"Echo" |
single |
no more convertible into neutral running shoes or kouign-amann |
63 |
Main-De-Gloire |
"Come Alive" |
single |
than the extra royalties Nick Drake could have earned by writing shorter songs |
64 |
The Dark Atom |
"Time" |
Time +1 |
in dimmer-later performative ambient-lo-fi reticence |
65 |
Teramaze |
"These Crystal Walls" |
single |
instead of dying in his parents' house. |
66 |
Avalanch |
"Sonrisa de un Ángel" |
El Dilema de los Dioses |
Angels do not return to us our losses, |
67 |
Black Guayaba |
"Cielo" |
single |
they witness the imaginary and meaningless. |
68 |
Cala Vento |
"Más Que Satisfechos" |
Casa Linda |
I do not envy them their labor, |
69 |
Comandante Twin |
"El Faro" |
single |
and will not recognize their union. |
70 |
Veintiuno |
"Mañana lo dejo" |
single |
I do not want to train transformers to sing to me of the correctness of things I suspect or fear |
71 |
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro |
"Canción de Muerte del Pez Dorado" |
Canción de Muerte del Pez Dorado +1 |
in statistical sequence. |
72 |
Estrada |
"Esta Noche Que Salí" |
single |
We are already the creatures of accumulated implication and relentless rotational inertia |
73 |
Chica Sobresalto |
"El Hogar" |
single |
that seems endless from the perspective of any single moment |
74 |
Grave Pleasures |
"Disintegration Girl" |
Plagueboys |
but will not spin like this for any important sense of long. |
75 |
Maleficium Arungquilta |
"Боль №2" |
single |
Talking to each other in different languages is far more human |
76 |
bird. |
"maria" |
single |
than talking to a language-model in fluent emptiness. |
77 |
Shaneil Muir |
"Change" |
single |
We quit our vocations to give ourselves to salvation, |
78 |
Sdala B |
"Emaweni (feat. Charlotte Lyf)" |
single |
and it coughs politely and smiles. |
79 |
Oska Minda Ka Borena Music |
"AKE JEWE KA BEER" |
single |
The definitional thing about afterlives, you'll realize if you think about it for a second, |
80 |
Remote control |
"Di polelo (Trajolic x Fentse keys)" |
single |
is that they don't need anything from you. |
81 |
Titi Kgole |
"Dodo Montjane" |
single |
Heaven is not another town you can improve with the zealous activism |
82 |
King Nuba |
"Uzongipha Amandla" |
I-Apula Lika Bestie |
you have left over after perfecting your own, |
83 |
Ithwasa Lekhansela |
"Ngisemzabalazweni" |
One More Time 3 |
it is a name for the body of unrealized aspirations that motivate us to stay alive. |
84 |
Omaganga |
"Sigubha umtswarelo" |
single |
An angel trained on only what we have already done |
85 |
The Twelve Apostles |
"Ngeyinyi mini" |
Sizi ngolwethu 2 |
is a computational resignation that thinks the problem with predestination |
86 |
Stephan Visagie |
"Vergeet My Hier" |
single |
is that it still tolerates the future at all. |
87 |
Tinariwen |
"Kek Alghalm" |
Kek Alghalm +1 |
We hope to be saved from our myopic ignorance by self-informing machines |
88 |
Valerie June |
"Handsome Molly" |
single |
like the deserts dream of being rescued by the rising seas. |
89 |
Tenille Townes |
"Home to Me" |
Train Track Worktapes 5 |
A pink moon passes overhead, unnoticed. |
90 |
Joy Oladokun |
"Taking Things For Granted" |
single |
We are busy, sorry, with this rock that isn't just dust yet. |
91 |
Zbava |
"Čas Polednice" |
single |
This was already still the time of legends. |
92 |
Tenhi |
"Valkama" |
single |
Fate, up against our will, |
93 |
Eluvium |
"Mass Lossless Interbeing" |
Mass Lossless Interbeing / A Floating World of Demons 2 |
promises infinite liminal spaces |
94 |
Erland Cooper |
"Movement 6" |
Movement 6 +1 |
as a way of distracting us from our uncommercial purposes. |
95 |
Caterina Barbieri |
"Math of You" |
single |
Fake Drakes, like any other cynical grift, |
96 |
Botanist |
"Selenotrope" |
single |
are a petulant response to earnest provocations. |
97 |
Korribann |
"Birth of Tragedy" |
Autarkeia |
You accomplish no good by refusing to automate your job and then doing it badly. |
98 |
Vargrav |
"Encircle the Spectral Dimension" |
Encircle The Spectral Dimension 3 |
Evil's core value-proposition is equating the banality of intent with the nominality of redemption. |
99 |
Thy Catafalque |
"A csend hegyei" |
single |
You climb a treacherous ascent to get answers, and at the top you find a sign that says "Welcome to the Mountain of Silence", and a vacant house that can be yours. |
100 |
Blissful Euphoria |
"The King's Tavern" |
single |
I fear AI sentience, but only the way I already fear all the unruly, irrational sentience we already are surrounded by and comprise. |
101 |
Juliana Hatfield |
"Lotta Love" |
Lotta Love b/w Give Me Strength 2 |
It already takes a lot of love to change anything. |
102 |
Colm R. McGuinness |
"Don't Stop Believin'" |
single |
All our machines turn out to be dreams of laboriously better worlds |
103 |
First to Eleven |
"Higher" |
single |
hiding in the naive hopes of effortless deliverance. |