1 |
Gameboi |
"Boy Of Mine" |
single |
Sometimes the song starts and we're thrown into gleaming darkness |
2 |
Iglooghost |
"Collision Data - feat. Marina Herlop" |
Collision Data 2 |
from a precipice of yet-to-be-determined height, |
3 |
The Fauns |
"Mixtape Days" |
Mixtape Days +1 |
to be caught in pillows that thrum with our arrival |
4 |
Blurred City Lights |
"Orange" |
single |
or arms that smell of need |
5 |
cotoba |
"coii" |
Humanoid operational |
or the updraft that distinguishes reverie from collapse. |
6 |
4ever Falling |
"!Love Me" |
The Beginning of the End |
We look down, and our eyes are quietly blasting engines, |
7 |
AViVA |
"HATE 2 LUV U" |
HATE 2 LUV U |
resuming a familiar argument with gravity |
8 |
Margrete |
"Hate Myself" |
single |
about what we allow ourselves and what we require. |
9 |
Bely Basarte |
"Todo va a estar bien" |
Bomba de humo |
We don't know how the song will end, |
10 |
Danny Ocean |
"No te enamores de él" |
single |
but it's only 3:17 and how far outside of your heart can you travel in so few seconds? |
11 |
Tanya Stephens |
"Who Fah" |
Who Fah +1 |
It's not a rhetorical question, |
12 |
EEVAH |
"I Wanna Be Yours" |
single |
but the answer is never so far that the next song can't bring you right back. |
13 |
Metalite |
"Aurora" |
Aurora 6 |
Or it sweeps us up and says you were never a leper |
14 |
Alterium |
"Siren's Call" |
Siren's Call +2 |
and the dreamworlds where we are heroes are the real ones |
15 |
Nova Prospect |
"Végtelennek tűnt" |
single |
and the difference between nostalgic joy and the regular kind |
16 |
Wij |
"Lucyferyna" |
single |
is the willingness to believe |
17 |
Bala |
"Prisas" |
single |
that you aren't just practicing to die |
18 |
Freakstorm |
"Angel In The Dark" |
Angel In The Dark |
or forget. |
19 |
NAQT VANE |
"NIGHTINGALE - English Ver." |
single |
We go looking for a private universe |
20 |
Northlane |
"Dante" |
single |
amidst private hells |
21 |
Symphony Of Sweden |
"EXIT - When There's Nowhere Else To Run" |
single |
threaded into wells of elixir. |
22 |
Eizbrand |
"Sommerregen" |
Sommerregen 5 |
Listen to your heart. |
23 |
Zártosztály |
"Álmodj velem" |
Hazatérek |
It sounds like patience and dignity |
24 |
Magnum |
"Blue Tango" |
single |
are the instrumental qualities of curiosity, |
25 |
Maladie |
"And I Die Alone" |
For We Are the Plague |
not the guardrail metrics of expiry. |
26 |
RüYYn |
"The Flames, the Fallen, the Fury part II" |
single |
It sounds like fires are portals |
27 |
Fawn Limbs |
"Black Body Radiation Curve" |
Vestigial Spectra |
from complacency into the gloriously indeterminate. |
28 |
Vredehammer |
"The Joker" |
single |
We cast our rituals against the sun, |
29 |
Farsot |
"Nausea" |
single |
against the cloying pompatus of anything, |
30 |
Necrowretch |
"Numidian Knowledge" |
single |
against the disingenuous idea that the dead are lost to us. |
31 |
Valdrin |
"Neverafter" |
Throne of the Lunar Soul |
The song says these are the last six and half minutes of the world, |
32 |
Ranges |
"III. Warhorse" |
single |
and then the next one says so what if we begin again? |
33 |
Bird Problems |
"Castle Filth" |
Castle Filth +2 |
What if our fears belong, selfishly, to the people we were? |
34 |
Laang |
"Honghai" |
Riluo 日落 |
Bereft, scoured and blinking, we blow a kiss to the sinking sun. |
35 |
Pimm's |
"Good bye my darling" |
single |
So dramatic, beaming with proud apocalypse: |
36 |
East Of Eden |
"This Moment" |
single |
but let it go and it always returns. |
37 |
MindaRyn |
"Without you" |
Shiny Girl 3 |
Why does our heart ache? How could it not? It has lifted up weights. |
38 |
krage |
"Answer" |
single |
The song starts and we have a thousand stories that begin this way, |
39 |
STEREOGIRL |
"Ruin Garden" |
Ruin Garden EP 3 |
with pealing and promise and the anticipation of a refrain. |
40 |
Who-ya Extended |
"Dr!zzle" |
Prayer 5 |
The song starts, and either you realize that somebody else feels the same way that you do, |
41 |
kanon |
"Instant Cocoa" |
single |
or else it is your turn to give that gift. |
42 |
Fall On Thursday |
"Idlip" |
single |
The song starts and you can choose to spend the next 3:10 in suspension or motion, |
43 |
Minority 905 |
"Wait for the Waves" |
Wait for the Waves +1 |
or you can shut up and dance with me. |
44 |
Corpus Delicti |
"Chaos" |
single |
The song starts, and you are still as old as you were when you felt this way, |
45 |
SGABISO |
"Wangibamba uDali" |
single |
or that age is itself in motion, and this is how you are still learning to feel right now: |
46 |
Stabhilithi |
"Niyaxabana" |
Zinhle Izangoma |
like you grew up on folk songs from somewhere your parents' parents' parents had never been, |
47 |
Amasap |
"Lisensimini" |
Impisi |
but we all come from the same fields, and before that from the same seas; |
48 |
Amawele Ka Mamtshawe |
"Bayasazi" |
single |
like sometimes we just need somebody to listen to the shapes of our words, |
49 |
Udumakahle |
"Awukabi yindoda" |
Ikhehla lase lenke |
and then breathe in and out again, in the lights of the East River or the Nile or the moon; |
50 |
Mnqobi Yazo |
"Umkhov'etsheni (feat. Igcokama elisha)" |
single |
like distance is finally not the only thing to measure while falling. |
51 |
Unathi |
"NDIYAZITHANDA MNA" |
single |
Listen to what happens when the song starts and your heart continues. |
52 |
Wrest |
"It's On Me, Love" |
Bedtime Rhymes 5 |
We look at ourselves and we see us all. |
53 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"more than words - English ver." |
single |
We translate ourselves into each other, not because we don't believe we say the same things, but because the infinite ways we repeat ourselves align in phase to tell our story. |
54 |
The Animal In Me |
"Cruel Summer" |
single |
Out the window, into whatever is waiting below: |
55 |
Fame on Fire |
"Fireflies" |
single |
a slowly turning, brightly glowing planet; sleep; dream; reconsideration; |
56 |
New Model Army |
"Green and Grey - Orchestral Version" |
Sinfonia |
rain; home; fighting; flight; reinvention; those of us who have chosen to stay. |