New Particles belatedly hand-snatched from the tube of the Large Genre Collider for the week ending 2023-05-26 in the obsessive search for pervasive joy.
| 1 |
Mesarthim |
"Arrival, Pt. 6" |
Arrival |
Our journeys are not defined by their ends, |
| 2 |
Mournful Congregation |
"The Forbidden Abysm" |
The Exuviae of Gods - Part 2 |
which are always already familiar or about to become so, |
| 3 |
Usnea |
"Bathed in Light" |
Bathed in Light |
but by the least expected points they pass through. |
| 4 |
Kostnatění |
"Řemen" |
Úpal |
You do not know, from the first :15 of a Mesarthim song, what the next 9:45 will be like. |
| 5 |
Yakuza |
"2is1" |
Sutra |
You don't even know what the second :15 will be like. |
| 6 |
Boris |
"Not Surprised" |
Not Surprised +1 |
Black metal has genre conventions, of course, |
| 7 |
Immortal |
"Thunders Of Darkness" |
War Against All |
sonic and structural, |
| 8 |
Cloak |
"Black Flame Eternal" |
Black Flame Eternal |
but it is also predicated on a sense of cryptic expeditionary curiosity. |
| 9 |
Horrendous |
"Ontological Mysterium" |
single |
You might be able to limp through a 2:15 pop song on a single chord-vamp, |
| 10 |
Nattverd |
"En gammel Kriger Trosser Vind Og Vaer" |
I Helvetes Forakt |
but you won't last 10 minutes that way, |
| 11 |
Blackbraid |
"The Spirit Returns" |
single |
or else your listeners won't. |
| 12 |
Black Autumn |
"Come Cold Morning Bliss" |
The Harvest Of Our Bitter Labours |
It's possible to listen to experimental metal as background music, |
| 13 |
Krigsgrav |
"An Everflowing Vessel" |
single |
but only in the way that it's possible to complain about the wifi on your commuter train |
| 14 |
Avdagata |
"Shimmering Black" |
Shimmering Black +1 |
as it is passing through the Fifth Circle of Hell and you're sitting on the side with the best views. |
| 15 |
Aetherian |
"ΠΥΡ ΑΕΝΑΟΝ" |
ΠΥΡ ΑΕΝΑΟΝ +1 |
The essential dogmatic schism of black metal is the inversion of various acquired metal tropes |
| 16 |
Kalmah |
"Veil of Sin" |
Kalmah |
into proscriptions: |
| 17 |
Balance Breach |
"Heart Like Siberia" |
ABYZMAL |
no preening machismo, |
| 18 |
Ray Alder |
"My Oblivion" |
single |
no texture-mapped superficial floridity, |
| 19 |
Induction |
"A Call Beyond" |
single |
no sing-alongs, |
| 20 |
Sirenia |
"Wintry Heart" |
1977 |
no simplistic overbearing clarity. |
| 21 |
Rage Of Light |
"The Scent Of Dead Leaves" |
single |
All these reasonable qualities are then extrapolated obsessively, |
| 22 |
Krashkarma |
"Survive The Afterlife" |
single |
well into the abstract perverse, |
| 23 |
Aline Happ |
"Sea of Dreams" |
single |
until even band-name legibility is transcended. |
| 24 |
Reasons Behind |
"A New Breed" |
Architecture of an Ego |
It's as telling an irony as anything that the flight from superhero logotypes |
| 25 |
Edge Of Paradise |
"Soldiers Of Danger" |
single |
ends up as an anti-aesthetic so consolidated that one artist could become its de facto registrar. |
| 26 |
ÊTRE |
"Apolune" |
single |
I have not, obviously, adopted black metal as an exclusionary moral code. |
| 27 |
Blind Hex |
"Halcyon" |
Dystopia |
Black metal aspires to a grim asceticism, |
| 28 |
The Foreshadowing |
"We the Others" |
Forsaken Songs |
and I stand by, admiringly, offering to be helpful |
| 29 |
Oryad |
"Blood" |
Sacred & Profane |
by collecting the disavowed brightnesses. |
| 30 |
Mass of Amara |
"Rebirth" |
single |
NO CLEAN SINGING, you bark. |
| 31 |
Opus Aeterna |
"Lumen Ad Mortem" |
Tempus Fugit |
Excellent, I say. |
| 32 |
Sirenia |
"A Thousand Scars" |
1977 |
I love singing, |
| 33 |
Pimm's |
"Follow me." |
single |
and will probably listen to another song with singing next, |
| 34 |
MAD JAMIE |
"show more" |
single |
but sure, let's hear what happens when you have to make a song out of everything else. |
| 35 |
NEMOPHILA |
"Night Flight" |
single |
Dante's Nine Circles of Hell are a compelling formalist plan for an urban commons: |
| 36 |
MindaRyn |
"SURVIVE" |
SURVIVE +2 |
an accessible and motivationally agnostic navigational superstructure; |
| 37 |
Hikari Shiina |
"Give me LOVE=SORROW" |
single |
a playground for mutual and collective attraction; |
| 38 |
Underbeasty |
"Hiraeth moon" |
single |
sustenance as maximized play rather than minimal subsistence; |
| 39 |
結束バンド |
"光の中へ" |
光の中へ +3 |
an insatiable belief in the infinite; |
| 40 |
FATE GEAR |
"Adventure in the East" |
Deathless Memories 2023 3 |
a font of moral principle and available outrage; |
| 41 |
Yurika Kubo |
"Come On!! Come On!!" |
Treat You Mean, Keep You Keen 5 |
the responsibility to question all settlement; |
| 42 |
Yohei Kimura |
"Wreckage" |
single |
self-awareness of our individual impulses as convertible energies; |
| 43 |
Pimm's |
"shut up!!" |
single |
shared vigilance against the perverse consequences of unregulated freedom; |
| 44 |
Subway Daydream |
"New Day Rising" |
single |
a systemic fertility for dissent. |
| 45 |
Regal Lily |
"若者たち" |
where? 5 |
You cannot entomb your enemies in a taxonomy of their unworthinesses |
| 46 |
Atomic Skipper |
"1998" |
Orbital |
without enumerating your own ostensible principles, |
| 47 |
Su凸ko D凹koi |
"Modorenaifutari" |
Su凸ko D凹koi wo Shinjiruna 6 |
and then, at least, once you forgive them for their blamelessnesses, you are left with something you've learned about yourself. |
| 48 |
Fuki |
"メトロポリス!ドゲンジャーズ!" |
メトロポリス!ドゲンジャーズ! Deluxe Edition 6 |
The things that do not compel you |
| 49 |
Gran☆Ciel |
"TSUNAGU" |
Yakusoku (Type-A) 4 |
have logics you have not yet appreciated. |
| 50 |
SHE'S |
"Alchemist" |
Shepherd |
A 2:15 pop loop without key-modulations or a demarcated bridge |
| 51 |
Regal Lily |
"管制塔の退屈" |
where? 5 |
has externalized these elements of transition from within each song out into the flow of them. |
| 52 |
yumegiwa last girl |
"Light" |
single |
Your dreams do not converge on a single perfect yearning. |
| 53 |
Awkmiu |
"color" |
single |
Your lunch is not a betrayal of your breakfast, |
| 54 |
miwa |
"未送信" |
ハルノオト 4 |
the unshared ingredients do not resent each other. |
| 55 |
angela |
"今でも..." |
single |
The goal of curiosity is not an immersion in entropy |
| 56 |
楠木 ともり |
"presence" |
PRESENCE |
but a meta-cognition of order |
| 57 |
Straightener |
"246" |
single |
such that arbitrary individual rules can be generalized into universal truths. |
| 58 |
Chilli Beans. |
"you n me" |
single |
The problem with most categorical imperatives is the idea |
| 59 |
cinder-ella |
"downno" |
single |
that law is an expression of will, |
| 60 |
Regal Lily |
"キラーチューン" |
where? 5 |
rather than a discovery of common purpose. |
| 61 |
Berlue |
"Existential" |
single |
Our societies are not defined by their reductive anthems, |
| 62 |
Juliana Madrid |
"Trackstar" |
Trackstar +2 |
but by the depth of their cacophonous soundscapes, |
| 63 |
Beth Crowley |
"The Worst Betrayal" |
The Worst Betrayal 5 |
by the layers of regret and redemption they compress into swift substrates, |
| 64 |
Taylor Swift |
"Hits Different" |
Midnights |
by the way a word that has been beaten free of meaning can now be used for something new. |
| 65 |
Louise Post |
"What About" |
single |
The 70th love song is finally about love, nothing but love, |
| 66 |
Cawston |
"Sara Tune In" |
single |
and then you're free: |
| 67 |
Tarryn Lamb |
"Hoor Jy My" |
single |
to hear other people's faith as your own latent strength, |
| 68 |
Hanna Pakarinen |
"Elämä on elämää" |
single |
to dance when anybody anywhere is dancing, |
| 69 |
Silbermond |
"Offenes Buch" |
Offenes Buch 6 |
to collect the balloons when they land again, |
| 70 |
Belén Aguilera |
"ILUSIÓN ÓPTICA" |
single |
to realize there were never anywhere near 100 of them. |
| 71 |
Eva Ryjlen |
"Aquelarre Eléctrico" |
single |
Our myths of transgression are exactly as allegorical and sigilic |
| 72 |
Olimpia |
"Noiz" |
single |
as our most conformist codifications. |
| 73 |
Hugo Salazar |
"Todas las mañanas" |
single |
Other people's banal habitualities, |
| 74 |
Funambulista |
"Hasta que amaneciera" |
single |
their borrowed clothes |
| 75 |
Sugarcrush |
"Los Muertos" |
Bohemian Rhapsody 2 |
and atavistic idolization of our juvenilia, |
| 76 |
Casino Montreal |
"El Manual" |
single |
their ponderous recapitulation of things we thought automated, |
| 77 |
DVLA |
"10000 Soles" |
single |
the way they stop exactly when we're trying to hurry: |
| 78 |
levitants |
"Oeste" |
single |
these are strings that attach to points on the surfaces of our hearts |
| 79 |
Mustat Ruusut |
"Siivet" |
single |
and allow us to convert linear inertia into emotional compensation. |
| 80 |
Nieteenstaande |
"Genoeg Vir My" |
single |
Sometimes it is enough for you to know the things people used to believe |
| 81 |
Francois van Coke |
"Almal Baklei" |
single |
in order to empathize with what they now resist or fear. |
| 82 |
Wstdyth |
"Greased Lightning" |
single |
Every circle has its characteristic dysfunctions: |
| 83 |
Kamiyada+ |
"Dead Rockstar !" |
single |
escape velocities collapsed into crash ballistics, |
| 84 |
Degreed |
"Ride Along" |
single |
attraction as demand, |
| 85 |
Manga Saint Hilare |
"NPC" |
Save Yourself |
bulimic rejective repetition, |
| 86 |
Kharishma |
"Sekoloto" |
single |
exploitative tokenism, |
| 87 |
Thabiso Lameslow |
"Batamela" |
single |
the misunderstanding of other people's disco balls as space lasers, |
| 88 |
Tsa Manyalo |
"Wa nrata goba wang user?" |
Wa nrata goba wang user? 5 |
the fear that their disbelief will dispel your gods, |
| 89 |
Sebopa_Zerosix |
"Layiso_213 (stsiipa)" |
single |
the willingness to fight instead of any of infinite other responses, |
| 90 |
Razolo |
"bolozwi" |
single |
the implicit endorsement of compellingly delivered philosophies you have not actually considered, |
| 91 |
Mashonisa |
"Kade Ngiqholosha" |
Uguga Nembewu |
the conflation of loyalty and ignorance. |
| 92 |
Imacsoul |
"Ngithwele" |
single |
Of all of these we begin innocent, |
| 93 |
Naima Kay |
"Uyisithandwa Sami" |
Uyisithandwa Sami +1 |
and then are seduced |
| 94 |
Nomfundo Moh |
"Moya Wami" |
Ugcobo |
by rewards we are also wrong to expect. |
| 95 |
Darksidevinyl |
"Forever" |
Forever +1 |
Strangers will come and learn to sing our songs, |
| 96 |
Claudia León |
"Shangalia" |
single |
but our songs were already not always going to sound like that, |
| 97 |
Kimosabe |
"Air Miles" |
Faded/Jaded |
and now they will have a better chance at triumphant evolution than capitulated atrophy. |
| 98 |
Bell X1 |
"Something Electric" |
Merciful Hour |
Our emigrations are justified by transient famine, |
| 99 |
Volunteer |
"Lost With You" |
single |
but motivated by a restlessness that was there under the hunger all along. |
| 100 |
Sepha. |
"still I give my hands" |
you're here |
We fall in love, and the impact is always a jolt of self-doubt: |
| 101 |
Undertheskin |
"Freezing Lights" |
single |
if there are other ways, so countless, must not ours surely be wrong? |
| 102 |
Vlimmer |
"Idealfatal" |
single |
If other people are beautiful, or tragic, |
| 103 |
Cowboy Junkies |
"Shadows 2" |
Shadows 2 +2 |
haven't we lived too mundanely that we are not beautiful or tragic in those exact ways? |
| 104 |
Gyllene Tider |
"Dagar att dansa" |
Dagar att dansa +1 |
Is it too late to choose better nostalgia, |
| 105 |
Kurt Baker |
"Anchors Up" |
Anchors Up +1 |
where by "better" we mean anything we haven't already heard a thousand times? |
| 106 |
Tenhi |
"Elokuun linnut" |
single |
We compare the things that have made us sad |
| 107 |
Mørk Byrde |
"Hvitserk Lothbrok" |
single |
with the things that seem to have made other people happy, |
| 108 |
Bakahira |
"Garden of Renewal" |
single |
and this is how a place of adorned assembly |
| 109 |
Uttern |
"Diana" |
Mediterra 3 |
gets miscategorized as a portal into lifelessness. |
| 110 |
Daridel |
"Ash and Blood" |
Of This Blood |
Reenacted rituals |
| 111 |
Secret Archives of the Vatican |
"Skjaldmær" |
Midgard 4 |
and gargoyles not quite visible from below |
| 112 |
Aleksi Perälä |
"FI3AC2391010" |
GAIA 7 |
form a cellular architecture for cosmologies of every scale: |
| 113 |
JeGong |
"An Oval and a Star" |
An Oval and a Star +3 |
the ones written in earth to describe the celestial, |
| 114 |
Cruel Diagonals |
"Vestigial Mythology" |
single |
the ones evoked in breath to honor the stilled, |
| 115 |
Aphir |
"La Maison-dieu" |
The Halo Is Shapeless |
the ones that meticulously scalpel redemption free of guilt, |
| 116 |
Lyra Pramuk |
"Quanta" |
single |
the ones so temporal that they have no words for time. |
| 117 |
Kuggur |
"Aurinko ja kuu" |
single |
Some of the places you have not been, you will have to invent: |
| 118 |
Maud The Moth |
"Jardincito De Rosa Y Tierra" |
Bordando El Manto Terrestre |
small spaces of grief and nurture, |
| 119 |
Sutekh Hexen |
"Fractal: Void" |
single |
tiny vortices of furious resolution, |
| 120 |
Xasthur |
"A Future To Fear II" |
single |
a place where you can meet with those who may have betrayed you, |
| 121 |
Phyllomedusa |
"I Nourish and Extinguish" |
Evading the Cauldron (One Fret Ov Death) |
a pond deep enough to conceal beasts. |
| 122 |
Emma Hewitt |
"EVERLASTING" |
EVERLASTING +1 |
All of these will be transformed by the arrival of others, and whether you yourself stay or go |
| 123 |
Demi Lovato |
"Cool for the Summer - Rock Version" |
Cool for the Summer 2 |
is not just a measurement of your diligence. |
| 124 |
The Animal In Me |
"Chemical" |
single |
Some of the things you make are gifts. |
| 125 |
Our Last Night |
"Chemical" |
single |
Some of the gifts you give are alchemies of burdens. |
| 126 |
First to Eleven |
"Every Breath You Take" |
single |
Our homes are not circumscribed by what we control, |
| 127 |
Juliana Hatfield |
"Don't Bring Me Down" |
single |
they are implied by what we embrace. |
| 128 |
Tegan and Sara |
"Girls Talk" |
single |
We pull the gargoyles down off the collaborationists' churches, |
| 129 |
CLIFFDIVER |
"Oh Bondage, Up Yours! (feat. Stephen Egerton of Descendents)" |
single |
clean out the downspouts and give them sharp ears and wireless sensors, and reattach them with new bolts. |
| 130 |
The Dandy Warhols |
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" |
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald +3 |
In the future everybody will be famous for covering one song that feels like it's 15 minutes long, |
| 131 |
SOM |
"Personal Jesus" |
Faith 4 |
The gargoyles can now see forever, and all their new songs are about what it was like to have lived briefly among us. |
| 132 |
Silverhex |
"Don't You Want Me" |
Don't You Want Me +2 |
But then our songs, too, are about living briefly among us. They look down, we look up. Neither song ends like this. Not yet. |
