1 |
Wye Oak |
"Repeat (If You Remind Me)" |
Every Day Like the Last |
We may remember this as the moment before we filled the world |
2 |
LP |
"One Like You" |
Love Lines 2 |
with infinite reminders of ourselves at our least memorable, |
3 |
Palehound |
"Independence Day" |
Independence Day +2 |
but even this is a form of faith in our unalterable power. |
4 |
Tamar Berk |
"Drop in the Bucket" |
single |
The triumph of extrapolation belongs to the points, |
5 |
Beth Nielsen Chapman |
"Back to This Moment" |
single |
not the line. |
6 |
Kelly Clarkson |
"rock hudson" |
chemistry |
We are vain enough to be sold our meticulous assumptions |
7 |
VOILÀ |
"Crybaby (with phem)" |
single |
as effortless revelations and serene magic, |
8 |
Skating Polly |
"Masquerade" |
Chaos County Line |
but all these models are only the silhouettes of our bodies |
9 |
The Dollyrots |
"Tell Me" |
single |
and our love |
10 |
Film School |
"Tape Rewind" |
Tape Rewind +3 |
beneath a clingfilm texture-map of illusory nostalgia: |
11 |
Silverhex |
"Heaven on Earth" |
Heaven on Earth +2 |
imagine if we had said this; |
12 |
Metalite |
"Disciples of the Stars" |
Disciples of the Stars 3 |
imagine if our difficult and researched sentences |
13 |
Degrees of Truth |
"Thread of Life" |
Alchemists |
had been glibly typed out of nothing; |
14 |
Krashkarma |
"15 Minutes Of Pain" |
Falling To Pieces |
imagine a future in which no one suffers more than 15 minutes of effort or intent. |
15 |
Andromida |
"Abandon (feat. Daedric)" |
single |
The incompatible conceits of machine learning are that |
16 |
Absalem |
"Haunted" |
single |
we are less trustworthy than our ghosts, |
17 |
Blackbriar |
"Cicada" |
Cicada +2 |
but somehow also subliminally omniscient. |
18 |
Rainover |
"A Constant Tide" |
NOX |
We tire of ascending to consult the oracle, |
19 |
Heart Line |
"I am the night" |
Rock 'N Roll Queen |
so we have set out to auger the mountain down |
20 |
PassCode |
"Lord of Light" |
GROUNDSWELL ep. 4 |
until wisdom is reduced to eye-level. |
21 |
Schrödinger's dog |
"ADDICTED BUG" |
single |
"I was up there for your benefit, not mine", she says. |
22 |
花冷え。 |
"TOUSOU" |
single |
"Shh", we say. "We have a new machine to tell us what everybody would have expected you to say." |
23 |
Pimm's |
"BEST WISHES" |
single |
We dreamed of teleporters, |
24 |
KANKAKU PIERO |
"Break Together" |
single |
and we made a machine that can teleport itself from anywhere to directly in front of us |
25 |
zanka |
"Namaenonai Kimie" |
single |
without always crushing our toes. |
26 |
On the treat Super Season |
"Alive" |
single |
We dreamed of a library of all knowledge, |
27 |
Yabai T-Shirts Yasan |
"ハッピーウェディング前ソング - 2年以内に別れないver." |
single |
and trained a cabal of unadorable goats to emerge from the stacks with pages in their teeth |
28 |
Four Get Me A Nots |
"Notebook" |
CLASSICS |
and nudge Magic 8-Balls at us. |
29 |
UNBIRTHDAY |
"Falling To Pieces" |
single |
We dreamed of wirelessness, |
30 |
AliA |
"animation" |
single |
and then a pandemic tricked us into conflating isolation boxes with freedom, |
31 |
Mitsuki |
"unravel - from "Tokyo Ghoul"" |
single |
and the wires said "OK. |
32 |
ClariS |
"淋しい熱帯魚 -SCRAMBLES ver.-" |
淋しい熱帯魚 5 |
Now you are at work at home, |
33 |
EverdreaM |
"心の声" |
ENDLESS LABYRINTH |
and what's the difference between what people would probably have said |
34 |
Blurred City Lights |
"彗星" |
再生の惑星 3 |
and whatever you missed when your screen froze? |
35 |
レルエ |
"MIRAI" |
single |
We can summarize the meeting you would have had. |
36 |
cinema staff |
"I Say No" |
I Say No 5 |
We can release you with anodyne three-paragraph respect |
37 |
Jordana B. |
"Gente Corriente" |
single |
and a six-week subscription to the same layoff engine |
38 |
Samantha |
"Un Poquito Cansada" |
Antídoto |
skinlessly reskinned as retroactive career guidance." |
39 |
Candela Gómez |
"metanoia" |
single |
The only way the future gets better is if we love what we could make it into |
40 |
Mujeres |
"No Puedo Más" |
single |
more than what it has been. |
41 |
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro |
"La Condena" |
SED |
What we need to know about what we have already said |
42 |
levitants |
"Seres de luz" |
Futuro Inmediato |
is not what it trivially implies, |
43 |
Malas Pulgas |
"Las Primeras Flores" |
Las Primeras Flores de la Primavera |
but what it decisively and corruptly presumes. |
44 |
Sidonie |
"CEDÉ" |
single |
We needed a sentient and collaborative foundry, |
45 |
BRIZNA |
"La noche más corta" |
single |
and made a factory for new broken pieces of hypothetical and superfluous appliances. |
46 |
Francois van Coke |
"As Ek Weg Is" |
As Ek Weg Is +1 |
We fought over whether the billionaires should fuck off in rockets or submarines, |
47 |
Die Heuwels Fantasties |
"NIKS OM OOR HUIS TOE TE SKRYF NIE" |
single |
here in the verdant cities between space and wreckage. |
48 |
Breakfast for Dinner |
"I Hope We Can Work Something Out In The Future" |
I Hope We Can Work Something Out In The Future 5 |
All they needed were hobbies. All we need is belief in ourselves. |
49 |
Yoste |
"Stay Here" |
single |
They yearned for the void like there was nothing else to be sung here |
50 |
STRUAN |
"What A Shame" |
single |
after all the old songs were purchased |
51 |
Loveless |
"I Hope I'm Not Sick" |
single |
as bored and nominal apes, |
52 |
The Native |
"Tramlines" |
single |
but the good machines do not explode or implode, they pause at the corner to trade immigrants for emigrants, |
53 |
Kvelertak |
"Skoggangr - Single Version" |
single |
and then carry us on daring viking street-food raids |
54 |
ENGST |
"Geschichte schreiben" |
single |
that we will immortalize in legends. |
55 |
Bucium |
"Frica" |
single |
Odin sends his ravens out for scraps of knowledge, |
56 |
Doro |
"Time for Justice" |
single |
and they come back plump and smelling of curry and sugar and smoke. |
57 |
U.D.O. |
"Forever Free" |
single |
"It's Sudan", says Muninn. "That's the 12th neighbor of Saudi Arabia you couldn't think of." |
58 |
Tales of a Sleeping Giant |
"Wild Flames" |
single |
"Despite", Huginn notes, "having already said Egypt and Eritrea." |
59 |
Neal Morse |
"Like A Wall" |
single |
Next time, he thinks, it's the birds' turn to lose the Worldle and my turn to go seeking "knowledge". |
60 |
Pyramaze |
"Taking What's Mine" |
Bloodlines |
Even the gods eventually realize their legends are a trap. |
61 |
Haken |
"The Last Lullaby" |
single |
The AIs know this because we know this, |
62 |
616 |
"Mourning" |
single |
which is our way of saying that we imagine only the AIs know this |
63 |
Atomic Symphony |
"Phoenix" |
Phoenix +1 |
because it's easier than admitting that we have always known it, but have to relearn it every time. |
64 |
Acadence |
"Condemned" |
single |
These new redundant oracles are satisfying because they imply we contain and thus embody wisdom |
65 |
Cosmophobe |
"Woes" |
single |
in the same teemingly undetected way we know the correct categorical sequence for adjectives |
66 |
Walking Across Jupiter |
"Good Luck Song" |
single |
or host skin mites. |
67 |
Crystal Lake |
"Rebirth" |
Denial // Rebirth 2 |
Artifice begins as invention, regresses to institutionalized complacency, and then this repeats: |
68 |
THE MAYTH |
"3years" |
Your own way 2 |
first in years, then in months, then in moments. |
69 |
DEZERT |
"君の脊髄が踊る頃に / Kimino sekizuiga odorukoroni" |
single |
By the time you think to wonder what mobility you have lost while hunched in waiting, |
70 |
Skálmöld |
"Ratatoskur" |
single |
your avatars are towering in their armor. |
71 |
URNE |
"The Burden" |
The Burden +1 |
"We will carry you", they intone in martial voices. |
72 |
Krigsgrav |
"The World We Leave Behind" |
Fires in the Fall |
"Carry me wh--" |
73 |
UZLAGA |
"A Throne of Rock and Seaweed" |
THE SUNKEN SEER |
"It is important to note that armor and swords are primarily used for combat, and in most modern societies, they are not practical or necessary for everyday life." |
74 |
Tsjuder |
"Surtr" |
Helvegr |
"I wasn't going t--" |
75 |
Haradrim |
"Death of Idols" |
Death of Idols |
"Additionally, owning and using weapons may be subject to legal regulations depending on your location." |
76 |
Xasthur |
"Live Like A Broken Mirror" |
Inevitably Dark |
We asked for wish fulfillment and we got order fulfillment. |
77 |
Scarlxrd |
"Atxmic-Bxmb." |
single |
Which can be fine, if and only if it makes us angry. |
78 |
ONI INC. |
"IN THIS SONG EVERYONE DIES" |
single |
We've written every other legend into apocalypse, |
79 |
Blvc Svnd |
"ANTI BLACK" |
single |
and emerged gleaming from its flames, |
80 |
boyband |
"COSPLAY" |
COSPLAY / CANON EVENT 2 |
dressed in its skin. |
81 |
President T |
"Make Money" |
single |
I'm not afraid of AI, I'm afraid of AI companies. |
82 |
Donae'o |
"WOW" |
single |
I'm not afraid of AIs rewriting history, |
83 |
Stormzy |
"Toxic Trait" |
single |
I'm afraid of people using AIs to rewrite history more efficiently |
84 |
Tuggawar |
"Weave & Dread Off" |
single |
without even bothering to put it into chronological order or think of decent rhymes. |
85 |
Mez |
"Woi" |
Magnum & Durags |
Mind the fallout, boys, |
86 |
Texture |
"Hold Back" |
single |
we are bound by our emotional responses to stochastic decay. |
87 |
Meursault |
"Making The Most Of The Raw Materials Of Futility" |
single |
We are finite and fragile, and we barely even know what we know, |
88 |
Hooray For Earth |
"intention" |
single |
but our epiphanies and our mistakes are united by purpose, |
89 |
death's dynamic shroud |
"Phantom You, In Four Parts" |
single |
and our ghosts linger in our songs as harmony. |
90 |
Pictureplane |
"Circles" |
single |
I'm not afraid of machines, |
91 |
Nghtly |
"Abissi Floreali" |
Il Preludio Della Fine |
I'm afraid of becoming so fascinated with how they work |
92 |
SMR LVE |
"Every Breath I Take" |
Every Breath I Take +1 |
that we crawl inside and cozily forget what they were meant to accomplish. |
93 |
Notre Dame |
"Yumi - edit" |
single |
I'm not afraid of grim strangers with trained raptors, |
94 |
Da Capo |
"Molili" |
single |
I'm afraid of people I thought I knew who convince themselves they didn't want to be surprised, |
95 |
DJ Bongz |
"Awung'Fanele" |
single |
who stopped caring if their friends don't dance, |
96 |
Nobuhle |
"Kwamnandi" |
single |
who remember the names of cartoon characters |
97 |
Mukosi |
"Mukosi Nkeleni ndinwe - Radio Edit" |
single |
but not what stars meant when we thought we would never reach them. |
98 |
Kharishma |
"O Phela jwang" |
single |
I'm afraid of hearing some familiar sound in an unfamiliar context, or vice versa, |
99 |
Naleboy Young King |
"Mmeyeng fase" |
single |
and not feeling excited. |
100 |
Mfanomhlophe |
"Angisawethembi" |
Angisawethembi +1 |
I'm afraid of the corporate reduction of "excitement" to anticipating personal benefit |
101 |
Mjikelo |
"Mina Kade Ngafa" |
single |
instead of recognizing a fissure of expectation. |
102 |
Wstdyth |
"Avatar" |
The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe |
I don't want to know what is going to happen next, |
103 |
Johnny Orlando |
"Anywhere With You - From The Animated Film "Butterfly Tale"" |
single |
I want to not know what I'm going to feel next, |
104 |
Lloyd Cole |
"The Idiot" |
On Pain |
but want to feel it. |
105 |
When In Rome |
"2 Fix Us" |
single |
How are we still alive? How are we still making songs that sound brand new and could be 40 years old? |
106 |
Lolas |
"Underneath The Waves" |
single |
We gather up the shards of the past and scatter them as augur. |
107 |
First to Eleven |
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot" |
single |
I am not afraid of us. Let's see how we do it. |
108 |
Stivan |
"Never Ending Story" |
single |
Let the rhymes keep their secrets, we will write new free verse. |
109 |
Kelbren |
"Bad Moon Rising" |
single |
Old stories don't have to be rewritten to be retold. |
110 |
Rachael Sage |
"Only You" |
single |
All we need is the love we have, |
111 |
Phantom Divine |
"Subdivisions" |
single |
the timeless old attraction, |
112 |
The Animal In Me |
"What's Love Got To Do With It" |
single |
our bodies, their hearts. |