| 1 | Paperwhite | "Human Nature" | single | The exuberant bounding way my daughter runs in boots when we're chasing a Pokémon silhouette. |
| 2 | R I T U A L | "Exit" | single | Trinity Church reflected in the John Hancock Tower, and science reflected in empty fountains and paper signs. |
| 3 | Fyfe | "Love You More" | single | Civic character flaws and urban erosion exposed by melting snow. |
| 4 | Falls of Rauros | "White Granite - Single Version" | single | Fearing the most impossible thing you're searching for. |
| 5 | Immolation | "Fostering the Divide" | single | The way no amount of procedural posturing can hide the chasm of self-loathing you reveal when you use power to deny protections to the vulnerable. |
| 6 | Ghost Brigade | "My Heart Is a Tomb" | The Best of Ghost Brigade | Public transportation. |
| 7 | Svart Crown | "Orgasmic Spiritual Ecstasy" | single | Armored elephants. Or polar bears. |
| 8 | Anomalie | "Vision II: The Wanderer" | single | Taking the time to learn your first language past the sixth-grade level, or your second past the level of xenophobic pantomime. |
| 9 | Cnoc An Tursa | "Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie" | The Forty Five | The way religion (or history) becomes truer as mythology. |
| 10 | The Magnetic Fields | "'81: How to Play the Synthesizer" | single | Gradient hair. |
| 11 | Helén | "Uusi olento" | Helén | The internal logics of imaginary worlds. |
| 12 | Oliver Wilde | "Klooker's Feathered Trill" | Post-Frenz Container Buzz | Bluetooth headphones that are actually blue. |
| 13 | Place Vendome | "Close to the Sun" | single | New fashions that give you permission to dress like you once imagined you'd dress when you could buy your own clothes. |
| 14 | Battle Beast | "Straight to the Heart" | Bringer of Pain | The way power multiplies if you channel it into emergent complexity instead of pointless brutalist dominance. |
| 15 | Lionville | "Bring Me Back Our Love" | single | Tremolo arms. |
| 16 | Youth in Revolt | "Noise" | The Broken | Nostalgia as a renewable fuel. |
| 17 | Wolfheart | "World On Fire" | single | Love of fear of the unknown. |
| 18 | Rogue Wave | "In a Big Country" | Cover Me - Bonus 3 | The plaintive fallibility of memory. |
| 19 | Eisley | "Always Wrong" | I'm Only Dreaming | The patience to play charades with clouds. |
| 20 | Lawrence English | "Hard Rain" | Cruel Optimism | Permanence. Impermanence. |
| 21 | Clark | "Peak Magnetic" | single | Light years. |
| 22 | Colin Stetson | "Spindrift" | single | Telescopes, emotional and otherwise. |
| 23 | Valgeir Sigurðsson | "Raindamage" | Raindamage | The moments when ice discovers mercy. |
| 24 | Arovane | "Lifecycle" | Organism | Active noise-cancellation by using other noises, louder. |
| 25 | Helm | "Don't Lick The Jacket - Version" | Rawabet | Frantic injunctions against things you hadn't considered. |
| 26 | Earthen Sea | "The Present Mist" | An Act of Love | Embraced uncertainty. |
| 27 | Edenbridge | "The Die Is Not Cast" | The Great Momentum | Obstinately demanding always more. |
| 28 | Ravenscry | "Oscillation" | single | Militant tolerance. |
| 29 | Kobra And The Lotus | "Gotham" | single | The urge to build towers, inherent in the enlightened and the corrupted alike. |
| 30 | Ignea | "Şeytanu Akbar" | The Sign of Faith | Ardency as a neutral energy. |
| 31 | HEALTH | "EUPHORIA" | DISCO3 | How the construction of geometry is inescapably about human bodies, because we're always us. |
| 32 | Black Sun Empire | "The Veil" | The Veil / Catalyst 2 | Static measurement as an epistemological grounding for movement. |
| 33 | 1991 | "Heartstrings" | single | How the units of everything are ultimately love. |
| 34 | Batu | "Murmur" | Murmur EP 3 | Understanding that mechanism began as rigidity and regularity, but has long since morphed into the calculus of responsive curvature. |
| 35 | Visible Cloaks | "Screen" | Reassemblage | Understanding that synthesis is the definition of freedom. |
| 36 | Sleeping At Last | "Sun" | Atlas: Space (Deluxe) | How all true power is identity self-determination. |
| 37 | The Amazons | "Black Magic" | single | How civilization is the cultivation of unnatural forces, |
| 38 | Imagine Music | "Valley of the Kings" | Gods | and the accumulation of systems for allowing the unlikely. |
| 39 | Blutengel | "Gott : Glaube" | Leitbild | How the most natural, and least creative, use of force is the perpetuation of an unquestioned status quo. |
| 40 | SikTh | "No Wishbones" | single | How all bullies invoke tradition. Tradition is the bullying of the present by the past. |
| 41 | Dvicio | "Casi Humanos" | single | How compassion is the joy of realizing that the future comes after the past, not because of it. |
| 42 | androp | "BGM" | single | Quiet anthems. |
| 43 | a crowd of rebellion | "リビルド" | single | Quiet anthems shattering. |
| 44 | Martha & The Muffins | "The World Is a Ball" | The World Is a Ball (30th Anniversary Edition) | Realizing that we have broken and fixed all of these things before. |
| 45 | IKINÄ | "Järki lomalla" | Samoista soluista | Towns where you expect glaciers. |
| 46 | Kaunis Kuolematon | "Tuhottu elämä" | single | Frost giants where you expect litigators. |
| 47 | TeamMate | "Into Motion" | TeamMate | Dancing where they demanded rules. |
| 48 | Maré | "Martyria" | Abschied 5 | We'll show you what real chaos feels like when it devours you. |
| 49 | Nothington | "Already There" | In the End | How chaos consumes those who mistake their own small-mindedness for self-control. |
| 50 | Yıldız Tilbe | "Sevgililer Günü" | Sevgililer Günü 5 | How isolationism amounts to moral asphyxiation. |
| 51 | Staatspunkrott | "Monokel für zwei Augen" | single | How resistance always arises from the realization that the air is better out here. |
| 52 | Nova Star | "Strange" | single | How bitterly aspiring jailers envy the besieged. |
| 53 | Red Mecca | "Set in Motion" | Set in Motion +1 | How reducing the parts to a sum misunderstands the function of parts. |
| 54 | Misanthropy | "Uncrowned" | Prelude to Execution | How we make enemies rather than admit that we need better glasses to read the instructions for making friends. |
| 55 | Makassy | "Dr. Hitch ou Dr. Grey" | single | How there are always more choices. |
| 56 | Skitarg | "Min vän Klamydia" | single | How easy it is to tolerate problems that only other people have. |
| 57 | Majeure | "Apex" | Apex +2 | How little your gods value your intransigence. |
| 58 | Pharmakon | "No Natural Order" | single | How they do not await you. How you must account for your soul here, now, every unethereal now. |
| 59 | Titta | "Rakkaudesta" | single | How someone waiting in an airport needs your love as much as the people whose surrender you think will constitute your triumph. |
| 60 | Body Count | "No Lives Matter" | single | How you break it all the way down to the low truth. |
| 61 | Black Pop | "Quédate Conmigo" | single | And then what you do with the broken truth when you're left there holding it in your arms. |