| 1 | Temperance | "Daruma (feat. Arjen Anthony Lucassen)" | single | The next person you pass is just starting over, |
| 2 | VOLA | "Paper Wolf" | single | or just finally realizing an era has ended, |
| 3 | Here We Are | "Együtt egyedül" | single | or just understanding that the era continues on a different path |
| 4 | The Unity | "Masterpiece" | The Hellish Joyride | without them. |
| 5 | Signum Regis | "Salt of the Earth" | single | Time to buy new pencils |
| 6 | Noveria | "Origins" | The Gates Of The Underworld | and try to remember what we used to use them for. |
| 7 | ShadowStrike | "Broken Hearted Journey" | single | I just spent a week in another country without ever touching its money, |
| 8 | Bloodred Hourglass | "How's the Heart?" | How's The Heart? 4 | or using it to buy records. |
| 9 | Marc Hudson | "Freedom Heart" | Starbound Stories | I brought a wallet, and all I used it for was giving a back pocket some structure |
| 10 | Serenity | "The Fall of Man (feat. Roy Khan)" | The Fall of Man 2 | to protect the mask I mostly but not entirely didn't take out and wear. |
| 11 | Derdian | "Derdian" | single | We rented a flat with almost no things in it, |
| 12 | Elegy Of Madness | "Broken Soul" | single | and we didn't use them all. |
| 13 | Myrkur | "Like Humans" | single | I brought a computer in case I had to suddenly do some part of my job, which I didn't. |
| 14 | Kristin Starkey | "Einherjars" | single | The first time I left the country, it would have been insane to even consider trying to bring enough technology to not do my job. |
| 15 | Edu Falaschi | "Señores Del Mar (Wield the Sword)" | Eldorado | I spent that first trip buying CDs |
| 16 | Secret Sphere | "J.'s Serenade" | single | I couldn't hear until I got home again with them, |
| 17 | Dogma | "Forbidden Zone" | Forbidden Zone +2 | but if I'd gone 4 years earlier it would have been LPs I couldn't even have carried. |
| 18 | Nungara | "North Star" | single | Civilization progresses in the direction of weightlessness, |
| 19 | SinHeresY | "Black Spirit" | Event Horizon | albeit fitfully. |
| 20 | 燐舞曲 | "雨音" | single | That first trip I didn't have anything that had to be powered or charged, either, |
| 21 | halca | "TTL" | 恋愛ミリフィルム | and this time I had a bag of plugs and adapters and cables. |
| 22 | Schrödinger's dog | "EcStAtIc LoVe" | single | We will laugh at this era of tiny flickering battery-life meters, |
| 23 | mewhan | "rettousei-ru-za-man" | single | and panicky obsessions with pockets. |
| 24 | may in film | "NonFiction" | single | But even with these awkward rectangles of connection, |
| 25 | 彩音 | "Dream ON" | Dream ON 6 | we are more or less equipped to metamorphose. |
| 26 | nano.RIPE | "スポットライター" | 光のない街 | Any of these bands could have been somebody else a month ago. |
| 27 | Moon In June | "スイートリトルライズ" | スイートリトルライズ / Slowdive 2 | One of the reasons to travel is to find out what you are without most of what usually surrounds you, |
| 28 | Sliverk | "青のすみか ("呪術廻戦 第2期 懐玉玉折") - スペシャルバージョン" | single | and this is also one of the reasons to listen to songs you haven't heard before. |
| 29 | Yukiko Kaji | "Midnight Rainbow" | Midnight Rainbow +2 | Somebody is starting over; you are just in time to be their first fan. |
| 30 | Akihito Okano | "インスタント" | Walkin' with a song | Listen like nobody has heard this before. |
| 31 | MAGIC OF LiFE | "Firebirds" | flowers | Or in this case, since these are all songs I've heard, |
| 32 | Mr.FanTastiC | "of course" | single | listen like you are the second. |
| 33 | UNMASK aLIVE | "Hometown" | single | For one conjectural moment, all these bands have is us, |
| 34 | UNTIL'D ASH | "Hotarubi" | single | and vice versa. |
| 35 | Kaira | "Viimeinen valo" | Viimeinen valo +3 | And then it passes and we are ourselves again, |
| 36 | Secrets Of Fire | "Flame" | SoF | everything we have ever loved dragging behind us on tethers. |
| 37 | Hot Milk | "ZONED OUT" | A Call To The Void | We squint in foreign sun, trying to see the street we're standing on |
| 38 | PRONOUN | "SLAP ME IN THE FACE" | single | for what it is, not a collage of all the other streets on which we've ever seen |
| 39 | Fefe Dobson | "I CAN’T LOVE HIM (AND LOVE YOU TOO)" | single | Whole Foods and Five Guys and bubble tea and coffee shops. |
| 40 | The Foxies | "Know Better" | single | The next song starts, and a thousand other songs we've loved are silently but relentlessly overlayed on however it superficially is. |
| 41 | Concrete Castles | "Immortal" | Brand New Me | The new clothes show the contours of the old bodies. |
| 42 | Sarah Barrios | "Healing in a Parking Lot" | single | We travel not just to stand where things are, |
| 43 | Dani Rose | "Circus" | single | but to be where different history has transpired and only sometimes expired. |
| 44 | Dakota Rhodes | "Give It Time" | single | The next song starts, and is like nothing you've ever heard before, |
| 45 | Lyncs | "i burned my diary last night" | single | but it's somebody's 100th attempt to write something exactly like this but better. |
| 46 | Mitski | "Star" | Star b/w Heaven 3 | Pick two people from different edges of the crowd, |
| 47 | Morgan Wade | "Alanis" | Psychopath | and wait to see if they have come to find each other, |
| 48 | Worriers | "Cloudy and 55" | Cloudy and 55 +2 | if this is the moment when they start over together. |
| 49 | Madds Buckley | "Love After You" | My Love is Sick | Every heartbeat is a kick in the chest from the inside. |
| 50 | Zheani | "FML" | The Spiritual Meat Grinder | Every vision-edge shimmer is a fantasy of surreality about to thrillingly encroach. |
| 51 | Cinnamon Babe | "Gaslight" | Fatherless 5 | You turn a corner and your eyes widen. |
| 52 | Seraina Telli | "Monkey & Zookeeper" | Addicted To Color | The next song starts and your world gets one song larger. |
| 53 | Hot Milk | "AMPHETAMINE (feat. Julian Comeau & Loveless)" | A Call To The Void | We yell into the darkness, and something yells back. |
| 54 | Huora | "Sanni" | single | I've heard this voice before, this language. |
| 55 | Anthem for Maria | "Mahou Shoujo" | In English | All languages are ways of containing everything that has been |
| 56 | Güneş | "Bölüm Sonu" | single | so that we do not lose it when we let it go. |
| 57 | Manic Sheep | "Morning Fragment" | Morning Fragment +3 | We sort of needed suitcases to go, |
| 58 | Benni Hemm Hemm | "Ruslið" | single | and sort of needed them more to return, |
| 59 | Nylon | "Einu Sinni Enn" | single | but this is just the next phase of Airbnb waiting to become conceivable, and then practical, and then inevitable: |
| 60 | PAWWS | "Hear You Calling" | single | universal touring clothes waiting there in your size, |
| 61 | Summer Moon | "STAR_CHILD" | Casino Days 5 | in the same physical esperanto as travel-size shampoo and Nespresso pods. |
| 62 | Survival Guide | "Lady Neptune" | single | In music, of course, this effortless future already exists, |
| 63 | Red Mecca | "New Horizon" | single | and all these unheard songs know, before I even find them, |
| 64 | The Crüxshadows | "Tomorrow Girl" | single | how to align themselves in my playlists and resound in my headphones. |
| 65 | Anders Manga | "Blood From Roses" | single | We walk past a club at the end of a wandering day, and I check my phone to see who's playing there. |
| 66 | Dance Gavin Dance | "The Ghost of Billy Royalton" | single | It's some Japanese band, come a quarter of their way around the world to meet me here, |
| 67 | Blind Channel | "DEADZONE" | single | and I don't recognize the name until I check my index, |
| 68 | Nightly | "the feeling" | wear your heart out | which has the list of their songs I've liked before. |
| 69 | Rivilin | "The End" | single | This will have been the age in which our memories first began to outlive us, |
| 70 | Fat Nick | "Alone Again" | HELLO I'M VULNERABLE | but somehow we had not yet apprehended how that changes our responsibilities towards them. |
| 71 | Spanish Love Songs | "Lifers" | No Joy | What will we do with all these pictures, |
| 72 | Marlon | "XAO" | single | all these songs, |
| 73 | Cora Yako | "Espíritu Olímpico" | single | in our children's cities built without attics, |
| 74 | Ligabue | "Una canzone senza tempo" | single | their basements repurposed for bakeries and hat stores? |
| 75 | Sunset Sweatshop | "Be One" | single | The question betrays the obsolescence of the fear. |
| 76 | Fatherson | "Afterwords" | Afterwords +1 | What are we doing with them now? |
| 77 | Mark Sharp & the Bicycle Thieves | "Green" | Unmask The Circus | What do we take when we take a picture, and how do we put it back? |
| 78 | The Glorious Sons | "Cellular" | Cellular 5 | What does streaming drain out of these individual songs |
| 79 | Conan Gray | "Winner" | single | only to channel into shared circulation? |
| 80 | The Mountain Goats | "Fresh Tattoo" | Fresh Tattoo +1 | The oldest way was we listened to what was granted us, and it cleansed or branded us according to its own needs. |
| 81 | Serge Beynaud | "Wé dans wé" | single | The middle way ceded us just enough agency to pick our own scars, |
| 82 | Heavy-K | "Kwelizayo" | single | as if by that banal grace they would be forgiven. |
| 83 | DJ Tira | "Mina Nginje" | Malume Way | In this manner we bought a garrulous and token autonomy |
| 84 | Lady Zamar | "Castles" | single | for only the prices of loneliness and inefficacy. |
| 85 | Son of Africa | "WELILE (Manamana)" | single | Together we will make this all into a city of the air, |
| 86 | Shabalala Rhythm | "Impukane" | I'm Happy | defined not by the content of the obelisks in its circuses, |
| 87 | Morwetla wa seremi | "Matsedi" | single | but by the way we gather and swirl and accelerate around them. |
| 88 | Sindi Sajini | "Mhlaba Ndiyeke" | Abantu Bakho 3 | Back here in Boston, the schools start to fill again with questions. |
| 89 | Shandesh | "Hlakahlakano" | single | I dodge around their sidewalk boxes full of whatever it is you need to bring to college |
| 90 | Hitler SA Massive Production | "Motlatso hit" | single | now that you don't need to bring records. |
| 91 | Remote control | "Bjala(UNI_LYN)" | single | Pencils? Made of a rare wood we are not allowed to import? |
| 92 | 071 NELLY THE MASTER BEAT | "Hlakahlakano" | single | Hats from Limpopo that you can't yet get here? |
| 93 | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | "Bauhaus Staircase" | single | Flashlights and violins, packed in misguided anticipation of silent unlit architecture? |
| 94 | Nightly | "pink starburst" | wear your heart out | Leave it, let it go, nothing is ever truly dark where we assemble. |
| 95 | Spanish Love Songs | "Re-Emerging Signs of the Apocalypse" | No Joy | Joy is not each song's frantic resort, |
| 96 | Signalgiant | "The Nuke" | single | it is the collective noun for collaborative existence. |
| 97 | BUNNY | "Lonely Together" | from cocoon to butterfly 6 | The next song forgives the one before, |
| 98 | HIKAGE | "NO WAY" | SYOKISHODO 5 | promises the one after. |
| 99 | ENGST | "Umtausch ausgeschlossen" | Umtausch ausgeschlossen +2 | The problem with NFTs' illusion of ownership wasn't the new illusion but the old one it approximates: |
| 100 | JOHN (TIMESTWO) | "Riddley Scott Walker" | Riddley Scott Walker +3 | that locking a thing up rewrites its history. |
| 101 | Bird Problems | "Plume" | single | It's not too late for the British Museum to give back the Benin Bronzes, |
| 102 | Passion | "I've Witnessed It" | I've Witnessed It | but it's too late for it to be a gift. |
| 103 | Blanca | "Espacio Te Haré (Make Room)" | single | This will have been the age in which we perfected our prayers |
| 104 | Cochren & Co. | "Parking Lot - Radio Version" | single | five reverent minutes before accepting their ritual irrelevance, |
| 105 | Brooke Ligertwood | "Fear Of God" | single | followed by the age in which we still sing them, and "church" is a high-ceilinged chamber for choral music, |
| 106 | Grails | "Black Rain" | Black Rain +1 | and You is us. |
| 107 | julek ploski | "Tajemnica" | Hotel ***** | What if ASMR is the new hip hop, |
| 108 | Blvc Svnd | "South Ass" | 626 | hip hop is the new plainsong, |
| 109 | Mors Subita | "Vile" | Vile 5 | death metal is the new classic rock |
| 110 | Incantation | "Exile (Defy The False) II" | Unholy Deification | and exile is the new commute? |
| 111 | Full Of Hell | "A Ladder Made of Warped Light" | Full of Hell / Gasp | We climb towards the sun, |
| 112 | Urfaust | "Untergang" | Untergang | our quivers full of darkness, |
| 113 | Owl | "Inversion Wave" | single | beset all around by claws. |
| 114 | Blut Aus Nord | "Forgotten Aeon" | Disharmonium - Nahab | Time to draw freshly transient pentagrams. |
| 115 | Fortíð | "Þúsund þjáninga smiður" | single | Maybe this is what the pencils were for? |
| 116 | Décembre Noir | "Against The Daylight" | single | It's definitely what the drums and guitars are for. |
| 117 | Lightlorn | "Dimensionless Blackness" | single | Songs of dread and reservation limn the stories of survival |
| 118 | Nebula Orionis | "I Miss My Dead Friends" | Sorrow | that delineate where sadness boils against weirs |
| 119 | Kuggur | "Miss" | single | so that we may pass between emotional elevations |
| 120 | Everything Everything | "MY KZ, UR BF - Clock Opera Remix" | Man Alive | bearing whatever we carry in the space in the boats that used to be filled with coal. |
| 121 | CeLilly | "The Beginning - Female Version" | single | Another song starts. Another month begins, another year, the life we have left. |
| 122 | The KVB | "Kiss Them For Me" | single | Transfixed by the inner sound, |
| 123 | The Successful Failures | "Can't Hardly Wait" | single | we wait. |
| 124 | New Friends | "High And Dry" | single | We're the ones who will love you. |
| 125 | Soccer Mommy | "I'm Only Me When I'm With You" | I'm Only Me When I'm With You +1 | Everything we need is right here inside, |
| 126 | Minority 905 | "Back To December" | single | all the beautiful times |
| 127 | UMC | "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" | Dancing With Tears In My Eyes +2 | we sing to welcome. |