1 |
The Joy Formidable |
"Cut Your Face" |
single |
You can listen from anywhere. |
2 |
Din of Celestial Birds |
"Utopia" |
The Night is for Dreamers |
Or that's the fantasy, anyway, |
3 |
IKINÄ |
"Tie" |
single |
that roaring Finnish gothcore |
4 |
Dark Princess |
"Поднимаясь в небо" |
single |
or sinuous Russian metal grandeur |
5 |
Lacey Sturm |
"Breathe With Me (feat. Lindsey Stirling)" |
single |
or Christian-hard-rock/talent-show crossovers |
6 |
A Light Divided |
"Rain" |
single |
can all reach any speaker, and thus any ear. |
7 |
BLOXX |
"Modern Day" |
Modern Day 5 |
Neither of these destination agnostices have quite been universally achieved yet, of course. |
8 |
The Dollyrots |
"Night Owl" |
single |
Not even all of the speakers have been liberated, never mind the ears. |
9 |
K!ngdom |
"Hetero Pero" |
single |
And as with most utopias, we do not achieve them, |
10 |
Stoned Mary |
"First Time" |
single |
we reach the vantage point from which their incomplete conception becomes apparent. |
11 |
Jazmin Bean |
"Favourite Toy" |
single |
We have all the news in the world; |
12 |
Sigrid |
"The Hype" |
single |
how do we evade an addictive and profitable morbidity? |
13 |
Tizzy Bac |
"Radical Life" |
《 甚麼事都叫平凡人分心 》紀念EP 4 |
We have microforecasts to tell us exactly when the rain will start, |
14 |
Zsasz |
"here is the answer" |
single |
but then our microforecast app gets acquired and remonetized, |
15 |
八木海莉 |
"メタモルフォーゼ" |
single |
and in order to replace its radar view we capitulate to push alarms about distant flooding |
16 |
Payrin's |
"Aoshigure-Ni-Ochite" |
single |
and distantly possible storms. |
17 |
She is Legend |
"Sayonara no Sokudo" |
single |
We have virality aggregators, |
18 |
ASP |
"I HATE U" |
I HATE U +1 |
and they concentrate virulence to sell to us as provocation, |
19 |
My Best Friend |
"Memorial Platonic" |
single |
as engagement. |
20 |
UNDEAD CORPORATION |
"God of Leaf" |
single |
Engagement is enrapture without love, |
21 |
362 |
"ワンナイトラブストーリー" |
single |
a minimally sufficient inertia to sustain nominal contact |
22 |
きのぽっぽ |
"輝き" |
single |
instead of a dream of hands on skin. |
23 |
Roselia |
"Sunlit Musical" |
single |
But we did not cause this distraction with our current abundance, |
24 |
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] |
"odd:I" |
single |
we caused it long ago, in seemingly simpler times, |
25 |
VIRGE |
"SORANI OCHIRU HOTARU" |
SORANI OCHIRU HOTARU +2 |
when we tolerated the devolution of shows and songs and news and every other |
26 |
-真天地開闢集団-ジグザグ |
"Dazzling Secret" |
single |
indelibly specific thing |
27 |
9mm Parabellum Bullet |
"Brand New Day" |
Brand New Day +1 |
into content. |
28 |
ANORAK! |
"basement" |
ANORAK! / DIMWORK 3 |
We invited vampiric generative "art" into our incoherent discourse |
29 |
Ang Dating Don Juan |
"Lagi" |
single |
when we accepted the illustration of journalism with stock photography, |
30 |
Urbandub |
"Come" |
Rebirth |
and maybe even before that, when we allowed acting into promotional fiction. |
31 |
Lonely The Brave |
"The Lens" |
single |
By the time we realize that we are lost, |
32 |
Loveless |
"Drag Me Down" |
single |
we have been lost for long enough |
33 |
The Band CAMINO |
"Save My Life" |
The Dark |
that we cannot retreat to a departed path, |
34 |
Neck Deep |
"Take Me With You" |
Take Me With You +1 |
we have to rediscover where we're trying to go. |
35 |
Local Bastards |
"Krach im Kopf" |
Krach im Kopf +1 |
We can't simply reelect the previous party and hope the pendulum has exactly one remaining swing, |
36 |
Rabbit Junk |
"Fight Me, Erebus" |
single |
any more than we can take one step back up onto the edge of the world. |
37 |
Iron Savior |
"In the Realm of Heavy Metal" |
In the Realm of Heavy Metal +2 |
This is how, and why, it can still be possible to make meaningful art that restates elemental truths. |
38 |
Angelus Apatrida |
"Cold" |
single |
We have to constantly restate truths in order to preserve their relevance. |
39 |
Theocracy |
"Return To Dust" |
single |
This, at least, scripturalists also enviously realize, |
40 |
Mercenary |
"Anthem for the Anxious" |
single |
even as they conflate cause and effect and imagine that insistence is an assertion of truth |
41 |
Dokken |
"Fugitive" |
single |
instead of its gift. |
42 |
Ronnie Atkins |
"Trinity" |
single |
The creative trinity, a thoughtful deist and murder imaginer once explained, |
43 |
Sarayasign |
"Blood From Stone" |
The Lion's Road |
consists of the idea, |
44 |
Tommi Läntinen |
"Laitapuoli" |
single |
its execution |
45 |
Moonaadem |
"Givre" |
Douleur de renaitre |
and that execution's reception. |
46 |
URNE |
"A Stumble Of Words" |
A Feast On Sorrow |
The despot's insane inversion stipulates a shallow fanaticism as reception, |
47 |
Shining |
"Avsändare Okänd" |
Avsändare Okänd +1 |
and a strident artlessness as brutal execution, |
48 |
Nytt Land |
"Nord" |
single |
and thus inhabits a shredded void where the heart should be. |
49 |
Katharine Petkovski |
"haven" |
single |
You can listen from anywhere, |
50 |
Sepha. |
"couldn't care less" |
single |
but you have to learn to not just listen to somebody else's nearest yelling |
51 |
Gameboi |
"Staryeyed" |
Climax |
streamed into everyone's helpless hair. |
52 |
Mr Traumatik |
"Isotope" |
single |
Conspiracies are hard to operate, but easy to believe. |
53 |
Big Zuu |
"Running Back To You" |
single |
The billionaires are cheating you, but not by taking your money. |
54 |
071 NELLY THE MASTER BEAT |
"Monwana Wa Leoto" |
single |
They're taking your money too, but that's not how they got to be billionaires, that's just abusive gravity. |
55 |
Chongo De Flavour |
"On Me" |
single |
Giving people actual things they want is a sometimes-profitable line of work, |
56 |
Maredi Maredi |
"Pelong tsa Baloi" |
single |
but it's work. |
57 |
Sebopa_Zerosix |
"Tshokolo yaka(Fifi_DonCheza_Mabhoda" |
Access 01 3 |
Wealth is not a reward for work, it's a systemic dysfunction |
58 |
Kabza De Small |
"Ungiphethe Kahle (feat. Nokwazi, Mawhoo, Mashudu & LeeArt)" |
single |
created by detaching the representation of value from the performance of it. |
59 |
Ahee Teekay |
"Moreki" |
single |
We disconnect labor costs from prices, |
60 |
Navigator Gcwensa |
"Umfana Ongalobolile" |
Imfihlakalo 5 |
but only as an oblique preface to disconnecting ownership from responsibility, |
61 |
Mroza Fakude |
"Ngehlulwa Ukubonga" |
single |
so that we can sell ownership in pieces so small they disappear. |
62 |
Sminofu |
"Imali Yezipikha" |
single |
You can listen to anything you want, |
63 |
Somnandi |
"EYOMAMEZALA NOMAKOTI" |
AKUYENA OWAKINI |
if you can remember to want, |
64 |
Amavikelambuso |
"NGIYAWUYEKA UMJOLO" |
single |
if you can take one clear breath |
65 |
Makhosi Mbutho |
"Likhulumile Ithonga" |
single |
between every pair of songs, |
66 |
Olivia Rodrigo |
"bad idea right?" |
single |
if you can define yourself by what you haven't got |
67 |
Our Last Night |
"vampire" |
single |
without requiring yourself to take it. |