| 1 | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | "Walking In My Sleep" | single | Not much left of this largely miserable year, but I don't like giving up on things before they're over, |
| 2 | MMOTHS | "0034" | single | and maybe I like it even less to give up on them afterwards, |
| 3 | Mors Principium Est | "Reclaim the Sun" | single | which is maybe just a way of declaring that nothing really ends. |
| 4 | Murg | "Gudatall" | Gudatall | Despair is a failure of perspective. |
| 5 | Immolation | "Destructive Currents" | single | Arts of loss are exercises in deliberate selective perspective. |
| 6 | Battle Beast | "King for a Day" | single | But then, art itself is the act of selecting a perspective, |
| 7 | Machinae Supremacy | "Into the Night World" | Into the Night World | from the mundane geometry of framing the Pyramids so there's no Taco Bell signs in the picture |
| 8 | Place Vendome | "Welcome to the Edge" | single | to the plaintive desperation in pretending for a moment that we don't just die. |
| 9 | Edenbridge | "Shiantara" | single | We survive not by normalizing evil, but by understanding that our defeats cannot ultimately be any bigger than our victories. |
| 10 | If I Were You | "Sirens" | Life After Death | Loud noises are all acts against silence. |
| 11 | Best Years | "The Cycle" | Ride the Wave 5 | Humans are the thing, in a constantly decaying universe, that stubbornly insists on fitfully improving. |
| 12 | Creeper | "Hiding With Boys" | single | This is why preferring progressivism over tradition isn't a political position. |
| 13 | The Funeral Portrait | "The Water Obeyed the Gravity" | A Moment of Silence | We improve. |
| 14 | The Murder of My Sweet | "Personal Hell" | single | Not continuously, but always eventually. |
| 15 | Alaskan Tapes | "Speaker" | We All Speak in Poems | We repeat mistakes, which can make it seem like we don't learn, |
| 16 | Prides | "Tinseltown in the Rain" | single | but this is like saying that an empty glass invalidates water. |
| 17 | Kreator | "Satan Is Real" | single | It is true that some of the gifts are bombs, and it doesn't exactly matter how good you've been. |
| 18 | Soen | "Sectarian" | single | But this is less disspiriting if you can extricate yourself from magic-illusionary causality. |
| 19 | Shi Shi | "是他不配" | 是他不配/微笑帶過 2 | You don't propel the world backwards by stepping forward. |
| 20 | Oral Bee | "Legender" | single | The most visionary reactionaries can only ever see so far into the past. |
| 21 | Gianluca Capozzi | "Sulo cu tte" | single | As historiography goes, Make America Great Again is hollow and gutless. |
| 22 | Fast Animals and Slow Kids | "Annabelle" | single | It is perilous to assume that our future will hold nothing worse than our past, |
| 23 | Brunori Sas | "La verità - Spotify Edit" | single | but even less probable that it will never again be better. |
| 24 | Matrioska | "Infiniti ponti" | Diversi modi, Vol. 1 3 | We sometimes destroy the places we stand |
| 25 | Vita Bergen | "J" | single | by standing badly, |
| 26 | Nicole Sabouné | "Lifetime" | single | but sometimes they can be restored. |
| 27 | Laser & bas | "Äntligen" | single | Sometimes we can be forgiven. |
| 28 | Sofi de la Torre | "Flex Your Way Out" | single | Sometimes we can escape. |
| 29 | Linney | "Alone Tonight" | single | Sometimes our songs are moments of groundless belief. |
| 30 | Carlos Baute | "Ando buscando" | single | Sometimes we dance in imminent wreckage, |
| 31 | Turmion Kätilöt | "Surutulitus" | single | or on it, |
| 32 | ONE OK ROCK | "I Was King" | single | or to welcome it with ebullient parades |
| 33 | Esprit D'Air | "Rebirth" | single | concealing openhearted ambushes. |
| 34 | Nightrage | "The Venomous" | single | Walls fall. |
| 35 | Bedårande Barn | "Försvara Och Bevara" | single | That is the nature of walls. |
| 36 | Invader Girl | "Underdog" | Dark Light 5 | Every wall is a slow-motion collapse. |
| 37 | Halflives | "Burn" | single | Judge yourself not by what you prevent or restore, but by what you set in motion, |
| 38 | RADWIMPS | "前前前世 - original ver." | 人間開花 | by the certainties you dispel, by the faith that the soaring potential you don't understand is always bigger than the defeats you can morbidly measure. |