1 |
Maria w Horn |
"Earthward Arcs" |
Earthward Arcs +1 |
I don't mind pausing. |
2 |
Susanna |
"Alchemy of Suffering" |
Baudelaire & Orchestra |
I don't mind being asked to pause, to pay attention again to a serious and previously stated thought. |
3 |
julek ploski |
"Martini, armani" |
single |
The world is serious, |
4 |
Flashini |
"MAT181-5NAS" |
MAT181-5NAS +1 |
or at least it can be taken seriously, |
5 |
Beverly Glenn-Copeland |
"Love Takes All" |
The Ones Ahead |
or left. |
6 |
Hanna Benn |
"The Line" |
single |
I believe this, but I can only act like I believe it for short hums of world-empathic solemnity. |
7 |
Ziúr |
"Nontrivial Differential" |
Eyeroll |
I try to focus grimly on suffering, but I get distracted by its contours, |
8 |
Din of Celestial Birds |
"MMEC" |
single |
by the urgency of our self-destructive energy, |
9 |
Friendship Commanders |
"Vampire" |
Vampire +3 |
by the bright colors swirled through the worst forecasts. |
10 |
The Haunt |
"OK" |
OK 5 |
You're trying to tell me how you hurt, |
11 |
Dystopica |
"Far From Perfect" |
single |
and I swear I'm listening, |
12 |
Anatomy of the Sacred |
"Narcissi" |
Ashes to Ashes 6 |
but also I'm kind of dancing. |
13 |
Beyond The Black |
"Call My Name" |
single |
You might blame yourself for putting your pain into a song, |
14 |
SinHeresY |
"The Life You Left Behind" |
single |
but these are just the most obvious cases. |
15 |
Scarlett |
"Cold" |
single |
We are foolishly magnificent, |
16 |
Celestial Ruin |
"Lost My Mind" |
single |
and often irresistible at our worst. |
17 |
Daedric |
"Titan" |
Titan |
But this is all even more true in reverse: |
18 |
Fate DeStroyed |
"Peace With the Devil" |
single |
we are transformative and profound when we are only trying to make an indignant and enthralling noise. |
19 |
Kaleido |
"MISERY" |
single |
We are right when we are distracted, |
20 |
Conquer Divide |
"N E W H E A V E N" |
N E W H E A V E N 5 |
and true in our idle and private figures. |
21 |
CELAVI |
"SOLUM" |
DOLOREM |
We confuse gravity and weight, |
22 |
senses |
"one last time" |
one last time +3 |
self-awareness and wisdom, |
23 |
Georgia |
"Mountain Song" |
Euphoric |
symmetry and destiny. |
24 |
Carly Rae Jepsen |
"Anything to Be With You" |
The Loveliest Time |
We set so earnestly out to solve problems, |
25 |
Soccer Mommy |
"Soak Up The Sun" |
single |
but our arms swing beside us even as we walk out the door, |
26 |
Slow Pulp |
"Doubt" |
Doubt +2 |
in elegant, rhythmic arcs. |
27 |
Middle Kids |
"Highlands" |
Highlands +1 |
Give me your heart, we're just getting started. |
28 |
NOVACUB |
"TALK TO ME!" |
single |
Walking is like dancing, |
29 |
YONAKA |
"By The Time You're Reading This" |
Welcome To My House |
and reminding ourselves of our problems |
30 |
BLOXX |
"Weight In Gold" |
single |
is like practicing a chorus of dismay |
31 |
Bronnie |
"Ur Ex Gf" |
Ur Ex Gf +3 |
until the harmony takes it up. |
32 |
SKIES |
"If Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, You Better Stay Away a Little Longer" |
single |
And then it's up. |
33 |
Worriers |
"Top 5" |
Top 5 +1 |
Make a list of the top 5 ways we can understand each other, |
34 |
Bad Cop, Bad Cop |
"Shattered" |
single |
of the top 20 panoramic views from dog parks, |
35 |
Sick Love |
"Holly" |
single |
of the top 100 solutions to a problem you only ever had once. |
36 |
Georgia |
"The Dream" |
Euphoric |
We will write wistful songs in which we were gloriously sad when we should have been terrified, |
37 |
V V Brown |
"Marginalised" |
single |
sinuously forgetting how we were really both. |
38 |
Carly Rae Jepsen |
"Weekend Love" |
The Loveliest Time |
Distraction starts out as an oblique strategy, |
39 |
Pia Fraus |
"Evening Colours" |
Evening Colours |
and spins us around and around until we end up pointing any direction, |
40 |
Daguerreotype |
"Holy Margin" |
Scandalous Acts of Grace 4 |
oblique or acute or adorable, |
41 |
Roxi Drive |
"Obsession" |
single |
trying to catch a glance of ourselves in some flat surface |
42 |
BUNNY |
"Lonely Together" |
single |
only to be surprised, again, that we never look like ourselves to ourselves |
43 |
Blinding Sunrise |
"Here I Stand" |
single |
from anywhere other than straight on until morning. |
44 |
Broken By The Scream |
"Rising sun" |
Whitewater Park 5 |
Our dreams only unravel to reveal luminous threads |
45 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Dear" |
Dear +3 |
that can outline the edges of new paths: |
46 |
GARNiDELiA |
"My Code" |
single |
to the top 200 cities you must visit |
47 |
MindaRyn |
"HAPPY LIFE" |
BLACK STAR 3 |
before you choose a new moisturizer, |
48 |
クレナズム |
"8gatsu31nichi" |
single |
to the top 500 integer factors of the number of moons, |
49 |
the pullovers |
"よるべの灯台" |
single |
to the top 1000 quiet smiles of strangers. |
50 |
COLLAPSE |
"PATH" |
single |
Standing, too, is like dancing. |
51 |
Plastic Girl In Closet |
"Ramune River" |
single |
Your heart is beating. We are integrals of rhythms. |
52 |
YU-KA |
"sugar" |
single |
But this is the only way we move. |
53 |
Utsu-P |
"下品 (feat. Ci flower)" |
single |
Our austere auditors reject each brick because it cannot reach the sky; |
54 |
IRabBits |
"サンキューフォーザ・バンドマン" |
single |
we nod our apologetic acceptance of their judgment, |
55 |
Huwie Ishizaki |
"宇宙百景" |
宇宙百景 |
and carefully place those bricks onto the next layer of the tower of tiny discarded hopes. |
56 |
ハルカミライ |
"YAEN" |
single |
Does our plan now become clear? |
57 |
Mr.FanTastiC |
"ユエニ" |
single |
It's not a plan, though, it's just that we can't keep feeling desperate all the time. |
58 |
XAAXAA |
"HISYATAI HA SHITAI" |
HISYATAI HA SHITAI +2 |
We are trapped in tingling sheaths that can't do it, |
59 |
WagakkiBand |
"宵ノ花" |
I vs I |
that can't not be thrilled by the dawn-like glow of imminent apocalypse, |
60 |
Mira Ceti |
"Tebeh dino" |
Himest Mesi |
by how unwanted armor moves against our skin, |
61 |
Vǫluspá |
"Wyrd" |
single |
by how the scents of individual fears blend together into defiant aura, |
62 |
Heldom |
"Vísdómr" |
single |
by how our bright swords whir, restlessly, as we anticipate signals. |
63 |
Reino de Hades |
"La Reina Oscura" |
Siete Runas |
Our personifications of our threats are invariably and indelibly alluring, |
64 |
Duskmourn |
"The Herald and The Wanderer" |
single |
not because we don't know the difference between terror and beauty, |
65 |
Lokust |
"The Sin of Doubt" |
Infidel |
but because every metaphor of fear reminds us of converse longings, |
66 |
Waldgeflüster |
"Unter bronzenen Kronen" |
single |
and we can't look at the smooth surface of blood velvet |
67 |
Stortregn |
"Xeno Chaos" |
single |
without imagining how the other side of it would feel against our arms, |
68 |
Arch Echo |
"Angry Sprinkles" |
Final Pitch |
or as the bound spines of the volumes of a history of chords and glass. |
69 |
Organ Dealer |
"Solitude Is Death" |
The Weight of Being |
Our rash graffiti of loathing self-assemble into sigils of reconciliation; |
70 |
PEZZHEAD |
"Yahweh" |
single |
our incompatible scriptures distill to the same crystalline structures of belief |
71 |
aldrch |
"tongues" |
tongues +1 |
we need in order to think of ourselves as not only the sources |
72 |
Shamir |
"The Beginning" |
The Beginning +2 |
but the authors |
73 |
The Clientele |
"Fables of the Silverlink" |
I Am Not There Anymore |
of truth. |
74 |
S. Carey |
"Steadfast (feat. Gordi)" |
Steadfast (feat. Gordi) +1 |
Our corrupt decadences begin as cheerful envy, |
75 |
Lamori |
"Never Alone" |
single |
and only foment into jealous enmity in the humidity of vigorous neglect. |
76 |
The Kite String Tangle |
"Good Catch" |
Good Catch +3 |
There were years, maybe decades, during which a few fond interventions might have shown a petulant brat how to hold a paper book with soft but clean hands, |
77 |
Álvaro De Luna |
"Rockstar" |
single |
or why you cannot excel at bottled water or midtown taco bowls or loveless parenting, |
78 |
División Minúscula |
"Beso a La Medida" |
Escombros |
or what to store or not store in cardboard boxes in a bathroom. |
79 |
Madmans Esprit |
"Hass und Ignoranz" |
single |
We all begin lost, foundlings of an ethereal and forgotten people |
80 |
ENGST |
"Drei Uhr nachts" |
Drei Uhr nachts +1 |
who would have known how to conduct this history |
81 |
Madsen |
"Brücken" |
single |
with more grace and fewer emissions. |
82 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"To Let Go" |
single |
We see their silhouettes, sometimes, in the planes of our avatars. |
83 |
Francois van Coke |
"The Real Thing" |
The Real Thing +2 |
We hear their accents in our translations, |
84 |
Winter |
"Dream Chaser" |
single |
their voices in our redactions, |
85 |
Tag My Heart |
"Sometimes" |
Tag My Heart |
their sharp inhalations when we flinch towards absurd self-defeating tribalism. |
86 |
The Ultimate Heroes |
"Uhaw (Tayong Lahat)" |
single |
Our ultimate heroes are new versions of ourselves, trivially recognizable in new clothes they based on old pictures |
87 |
Buds. |
"Medicinal Cathedral" |
single |
of us in our driveway on a summer morning, |
88 |
Fatherson |
"Piece Of Mind" |
single |
or poems we once wrote about places we had so far only seen in movies. |
89 |
Glen Hansard |
"The Feast Of St. John" |
single |
We get there, years later, if we're lucky and the places are patient, |
90 |
Allman Brown |
"Bewildered" |
single |
and usually the first thing we realize we left out, in our imagining, |
91 |
Voyce |
"Atemzug" |
single |
is that we are there. |
92 |
Kina Grannis |
"here" |
single |
We imagine futures in which other people, conjectural and amorphous, |
93 |
Mitski |
"Bug Like an Angel" |
single |
are scrunched into battery-powered cars with bad radios and our parents' color-schemes, |
94 |
Clara Klingenström |
"Blommorna på min tapet" |
single |
and the steering wheels on some third side we would never accept as a compromise. |
95 |
Bethany Cosentino |
"Natural Disaster" |
Natural Disaster |
But you can drive to the future in the car you already have, |
96 |
Belles |
"Break Up With Your Ex" |
single |
in the clothes you put on this morning because you have nothing special planned and these are the things you don't save to wear when you do. |
97 |
Reyna Roberts |
"One Way Street" |
single |
You can walk to the future. You can get there by standing still. |
98 |
Melissa Etheridge |
"Juliet" |
single |
You get there how you do, and the future is full of songs from your past that you've never heard before, |
99 |
Mitchell Tenpenny |
"Bigger Mistakes" |
single |
and they sound like what you used to want |
100 |
Eric Paslay |
"Best Damn Days" |
single |
before you got it. |
101 |
Werd (SOS) |
"First Rap" |
The Unplanned EP 5 |
The future is serious, but the past was once going to be serious, too. Remember? |
102 |
Conscious Route |
"Galactic (feat. Wends)" |
Galactic 4 |
We were so helplessly earnest as we tried to master sarcasm, |
103 |
Rivilin |
"Calcify" |
single |
thinking that the trick to not getting old is never believing anything that can turn anger into process. |
104 |
Mr Traumatik |
"Hermes Trismegistus" |
My family thinks im crazy |
Dude, I don't think you're crazy, and I don't know how seriously you mean this goofy persona to be taken, but I want to like your songs and about 95% of the time I am unable to because you're saying things that are dumber than they are funny. |
105 |
Spice |
"Le We Wind" |
Spice |
Spice probably thinks she has knowledge in her forehead, too, but transferring knowledge is a full-body activity, not a headbutt. |
106 |
071 NELLY THE MASTER BEAT |
"Moshomo" |
single |
Fewer moldy mushrooms, more dancing. |
107 |
Blaq Diamond |
"Impi Yothando" |
single |
Fewer chemtrail conspiracy theories, more getting on planes and letting them put the trails behind you. |
108 |
Son of Africa |
"Son of Africa (Undishiyile dance beat)" |
single |
Some of what you've come to rely upon as trauma is only history fermented in fear. |
109 |
Gadla Nxumalo |
"Umuzi Nengadi" |
single |
You're trying to tell me about things that our ancestors did to each other, |
110 |
Somnandi |
"NGAWA NGASHELELELA" |
single |
and I swear I'm listening, |
111 |
Mazilankatha Lo Dumo Lwabantwana |
"Ndodana kaBaba" |
Phakama Sthunywa |
but I'm also trying to learn how to internalize this beat like I absorbed the ones I grew up with, |
112 |
David Jones David |
"Bulelela" |
single |
and if our ancestors had been obsessed with this, it would have saved us a few centuries of horror. |
113 |
Eesti Noorte Muusikaliteater |
"Vist Ongi Nii" |
single |
I believe this, and I can believe it 20 times an hour for days on end. |
114 |
Phil Wickham |
"People Of Heaven" |
single |
Your ridiculous stories of what awaits us are ridiculous first in time, and second in place. |
115 |
Whispers In The Shadow |
"Majesty & Torment (Abyss Mix)" |
Majesty & Torment (Single) |
All that majesty and torment is here already, now. |
116 |
Petbrick |
"Singularity 10: Sleepless Eternal" |
single |
We try to focus on the laborious redress of suffering, and the labor seems as eternal as the imaginary reward. |
117 |
Minority 905 |
"Mine" |
single |
We are fall risks with a fear of flying. |
118 |
Rain Paris |
"Lights" |
single |
We forget to tell ourselves that we'll be strong, |
119 |
PRIZM |
"Don't Stop" |
Don't Stop +2 |
that the future will be different because we'll be there and we'll make it be different. |