| 1 | Clock Opera | "Changeling" | Venn | Imagine if Talk Talk took the organic transcendence of their later albums and retrofitted it back onto the synthpop they started with. |
| 2 | Hyborian | "Maelstrom" | Hyborian, Vol. 1 | Imagine punching a wall, and hurting the wall more than your hand, |
| 3 | Ulsect | "Our Trivial Toil" | single | but then dark ichor starts pouring in through the hole. |
| 4 | SPINN | "Home" | single | Nothing left to do but dance |
| 5 | E M I L I E | "Never Enough" | single | with tears in your eyes. |
| 6 | Hladomrak | "Spirit of the Forest" | Arctic Hysteria | When all this is gone, we will start over again on tundra and clean sheets of ice. |
| 7 | Varmia | "Ptak" | Z Mar Twych | This will all make sense then. |
| 8 | Sloth Herder | "Antipathic Grades" | No Pity, No Sunrise | Maybe. |
| 9 | L.A. Girlfriend | "Death & Peonies" | Rex 5 | But we can fill the broken intervening days with tiny acts of anti-heroic resistance, |
| 10 | JD Miller | "Journey Through the Past" | single | or we can ride out on dragons to go three blocks and buy pickles and cereal. |
| 11 | Endezzma | "Esoterisk Mystagon" | The Arcane Abyss | We would think about urban planning slightly differently, I think, if there were fewer cars and more dragons. |
| 12 | Chontaraz | "Mindcrime" | Rondamauh | A bored dragon is a restless dragon. A new age of innovation in parking-lot design will erupt, if nothing else. |
| 13 | Michaela May | "You & I" | single | And if we can ride dragons, then we can ride zephyrs. You arrive on the wind, you can just step off. |
| 14 | Talos | "Contra" | single | Imagine if Talk Talk knew all of this would happen |
| 15 | Avec Sans | "We Are" | single | all along, |
| 16 | Vanbot | "Fiction - Listvyanka" | Siberia | with a mixture of trepidation |
| 17 | Bright Light Bright Light | "Stay (I Missed You)" | single | and prescient nostalgia. |
| 18 | New Arcades | "Don't Let Go (feat. Chloe Pamplin)" | single | Take whatever you fear and imagine cheering it in a thronged parade; |
| 19 | Netherbird | "Nepenthe" | Hymns from Realms Yonder | Take whatever you think defines you, and imaging carrying it away. |
| 20 | Alfahanne | "Satans verser" | Det nya svarta | The weather tomorrow will be all of these things. |
| 21 | God Dethroned | "On the Wrong Side of the Wire" | single | Dress for scattered apocalypse. |
| 22 | Diet Cig | "Sixteen" | Swear I'm Good At This | But wave. |
| 23 | Arthemis | "Black Sun" | Blood-Fury-Domination | Half the dragons are just projections, of course. |
| 24 | Sunrise | "Дар" | single | How would it work otherwise? |
| 25 | Brothers of Metal | "The Death of the God of Light" | Prophecy of Ragnarök | We each have dreams the scope of the sky, there's no way they can't mostly overlap. |
| 26 | Seven Kingdoms | "Castles In The Snow" | single | Coexistence is a function of recognizing this, not avoiding it. |
| 27 | Dragony | "Lords of the Hunt" | Lords of the Hunt | You don't make room for your own grandeur by pushing other people away, |
| 28 | Katana | "Move" | single | you do it by standing in the middle of a storm |
| 29 | Minniva | "Listen To Your Heart" | single | you conduct |
| 30 | Astrid S | "Bloodstream" | single | together. |
| 31 | Shakira | "Me Enamoré" | single | You don't keep other people out of sight, you need their eyes. |
| 32 | Michelle Branch | "Knock Yourself Out" | Hopeless Romantic | You don't stay safe, they need to see you recover from pain. |
| 33 | In Hearts Wake | "Warcry" | single | Imagine punching holes in the spaces in the air where the walls haven't been built yet. |
| 34 | Sonic Syndicate | "Fire" | single | Replacing walls with air is only good for stone. |
| 35 | Falling In Reverse | "Fuck You and All Your Friends" | Coming Home | Gleaming rage always beats arena complacency. |
| 36 | Blood Stain Child | "TRI ODYSSEY" | single | When the dragons come, you don't want to be trapped in an airplane hangar or a televised church, |
| 37 | Tonight Alive | "World Away" | single | you want to be coming over the top of a hill, or around corners, or through the doors into spotlights. |
| 38 | Irina | "Ei nyt eikä ikinä" | Seitsemän | You want to be somewhere where you can dance |
| 39 | Arca | "Desafío" | Arca | or think, |
| 40 | Clark | "Catastrophe Anthem" | Death Peak | at least one of the two. |
| 41 | Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement | "They Dropped the Stone in the Harbour but Overnight It Returned, So Finally They Left It Here." | Water Witches | We were here before, |
| 42 | Sinners Are Winners | "Elixir" | single | weren't we? |
| 43 | Halflives | "Echo" | single | Wasn't that us? |
| 44 | Blood Youth | "What I'm Running From" | Beyond Repair | Think about buses. A dragon could carry a bus. |
| 45 | Seafoal | "You'll Be Sorry" | Xeraclius 5 | This simplifies a lot of things, |
| 46 | Unleash The Archers | "Cleanse The Bloodlines" | single | but simple isn't neccessarily better. |
| 47 | Onyria | "Alone" | single | Sometimes it's more effective to just walk. |
| 48 | SinHeresY | "Domino" | Domino | The age of legends was not primarily a utopia of ergonomics. |
| 49 | jeremy messersmith | "Everything Is Magical" | single | And yet, the converse might be true. |
| 50 | Palehound | "Flowing Over" | single | You make things truer by holding them in your hands, |
| 51 | Aye Nako | "Half Dome" | Silver Haze | no less so when they're hypothetical or abstract. |
| 52 | Charly Bliss | "Black Hole" | single | The dragons will have to sleep somewhere. |
| 53 | Echo Ladies | "Close To Be Close To Me" | Echo Ladies EP 4 | They will have to be polished, or comforted, or found when they get lost. |
| 54 | Tritonal | "Hey Mamama" | Hey Mamama +1 | Tiny parts of the grand vision will expand into entire branches of government. |
| 55 | Wolfgang Gartner | "Borneo" | single | Dragons will be taxed, |
| 56 | Estiva | "Space Dust" | Repeater / Space Dust 2 | trophied, |
| 57 | MaRLo | "Falling Down" | single | mourned. |
| 58 | Kura | "Paper Roses" | single | And if you can do that, and you can because what other options would you have, then all these dragonlessnesses can't be so hard. |
| 59 | Vieux Farka Touré | "Ni Negaba" | Samba | Whatever you have to do today, you get to do it without having to figure out where to leave a dragon while you're working. |
| 60 | HWLS | "Beta" | single | Your solutions do not have to bear dragonweight. |
| 61 | Erik Ekholm | "Renegade" | single | The future hasn't ever happened yet. |
| 62 | Antti Martikainen | "Legendary" | The Sound of Courage | That's the best thing about it. |
| 63 | The Megaphonic Thrift | "Occam's Razor" | Sun Stare Sound | We always have another chance before we're done with now, |
| 64 | Blood Command | "(The World Covered In) Purple Shrouds - Radio Edit" | single | if we take it. |
| 65 | Dvicio | "Idiota" | single | Everything we have withstood can instantly be merely the beginning again. |
| 66 | Ednita Nazario | "Ni una Lágrima (Bandolero)" | single | Words you don't understand can mean anything: |
| 67 | Uneven Structure | "Crystal Teeth" | single | dragon-command incantations or |
| 68 | The Algorithm | "runtime" | Brute Force: Source Code | procedural remediations or |
| 69 | Scale The Summit | "Astral Kids" | single | wistfulness as hard as piety or grace. |
| 70 | Die Toten Hosen | "Unter den Wolken" | Unter den Wolken +2 | All of these streets were surveyed in forgotten eras, |
| 71 | Bonfire | "Schanzerherz" | single | and yet we fit more cozily into them than the barren new blocks. |
| 72 | Levante | "Le mie mille me" | Nel Caos Di Stanze Stupefacenti | Other people's traditions have carved these grand canyons |
| 73 | Thegiornalisti | "Senza" | single | and then vanished, |
| 74 | Tony Maiello | "In alto" | single | leaving petroglyphs and echoes. |
| 75 | Rachele Lynae | "Cut Me Off" | single | Loneliness, like the rest of us, persists. |
| 76 | Azarath | "The Triumph of Ascending Majesty" | In Extremis | Our repertoire of reactions multiplies. |
| 77 | Grimner | "Freja Vakar" | single | Fear is subtractive, but survival is exponential. |
| 78 | NIHILS | "Dreaming" | single | A million dreams for every death. |
| 79 | Jai Wolf | "Starlight" | single | How still can you hold yourself and still be dancing? |
| 80 | SLUMBERJACK | "Afraid, Unafraid" | single | What is the minimum constitution of a floor? |
| 81 | SHY FX | "We Just Don't Care" | single | What if you decided to obsessively collect whatever you were about to throw away? |
| 82 | Vallenfyre | "Kill All Your Masters" | single | What would that destroy? |
| 83 | Server Uraz | "Akbaba Ziyafeti" | Yılan Hikayesi | What would it leave behind? |
| 84 | Los Ex | "Chao" | Caída Libre | Maybe that would be enough |
| 85 | Mala Reputación | "Ríndete" | single | to rebuild with. |
| 86 | Mimikry | "Tid att vara arg" | single | Broken tiles can be fit back together in new patterns: |
| 87 | Dead by April | "Crying Over You" | Worlds Collide | spirals, |
| 88 | Ákos | "Szabadon" | Szabadon | new edges, |
| 89 | Impure Wilhelmina | "Great Falls Beyond Death" | single | barriers reassembled as monuments, |
| 90 | Кристина Орбакайте | "Лайт" | single | mirror-shard spectacle, |
| 91 | NEEDTOBREATHE | "HARD LOVE (feat. Andra Day)" | single | municipal graffiti, |
| 92 | Stamp | "Don't You Go" | single | translated fluency, |
| 93 | Deez Nuts | "Commas & Zeros" | Binge & Purgatory | dragon-management infrastructure. |
| 94 | We Deserve This | "What If We Could Breathe in Space but No One Tells Us" | single | There are impossible things, but probably not the ones you think. |
| 95 | Ulver | "Angelus Novus" | The Assassination of Julius Caesar | There are problems everywhere, but that doesn't mean none of the new ideas are better. |
| 96 | As December Falls | "Touch" | single | Pessimism is refusing to drink a half-full glass. |
| 97 | Vorace | "Escape From Fake" | Bad Start - EP 5 | Nihilism is refusing to even drink an empty glass. |