| 1 | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | "When I Dance With You" | single | We hear different things, but we feel the same way when we feel this way. |
| 2 | The Clientele | "Lunar Days" | single | At least, this is my theory, hopefully more hopeful than tragic. |
| 3 | Chain of Flowers | "Flesh Blood and Bone" | Let Your Light In / Flesh Blood & Bone 2 | Or maybe it's less a theory than a resolution. |
| 4 | Tau Cross | "Killing the King" | single | I want us to be as alike in our joys as we are scattered in our quests. |
| 5 | Tombs | "Black Sun Horizon" | The Grand Annihilation | I want us to be deliriously scattered in our quests. |
| 6 | Mesarthim | "The Great Filter" | The Great Filter / Type III | If everybody agreed with me-right-now that this Mesarthim epic is an embodiment at once of all human fear and aspiration, then hope would be deterministic and finite. |
| 7 | Selvans | "Lupercale" | Hirpi | When you hate the things I love, you reassure me that I have more to discover, |
| 8 | Akercocke | "Disappear" | single | and thus that living is straightforwardly better than dying, |
| 9 | Septicflesh | "Dante's Inferno" | single | which is a non-trivial conviction when you like music that is itself obsessed with death and related finities, |
| 10 | Excalion | "Divergent Falling" | single | or when you live on a planet with unmodulated climate, |
| 11 | Iced Earth | "Black Flag" | Incorruptible | or spinning uncontrollably in space. |
| 12 | Signum Regis | "Tune of War" | Addendum Primum 4 | Half of "civilization", in our current primitive state, is distraction from physics. |
| 13 | FreQuency | "If I Lose Myself" | single | But then again, half of physics is atoms envying us our imaginations, |
| 14 | Wolf Alice | "Yuk Foo" | single | unravelings |
| 15 | Parade of Lights | "Touch" | single | and glittering metastructures. |
| 16 | The Killers | "The Man" | single | Valence is no substitute for swagger, |
| 17 | The Sounds | "The Darkness" | The Tales That We Tell 4 | for how we walk roaring into the dark, |
| 18 | Broadside | "Lose Your Way" | Paradise | for how we goad impossibility until it gives up and taunts us and then we win. |
| 19 | Pvris | "What's Wrong" | single | Identity convolves, |
| 20 | Picturesque | "New Face" | single | and yet constantly declares shifting elusive victory. |
| 21 | Dayseeker | "Abandon" | single | Even surrender asserts a volitional imperative. |
| 22 | Hundredth | "Vertigo" | RARE | Even the loss of control is itself controlled. |
| 23 | Social Repose | "Eyes Closed - Acapella" | single | We don't lose control so much as we contract to store it elsewhere for a time, |
| 24 | Jule Vera | "Running" | Waiting On The Sun | as if self-discipline were a form of investment. |
| 25 | Hidden Hospitals | "Better Off" | single | We hear different things, but are left in the same limbo every time the music stops. |
| 26 | Doll Skin | "Rubi" | Manic Pixie Dream Girl | We can all bend metal with our minds, |
| 27 | Die/May | "No Longer Burden" | single | or whatever passes for metal |
| 28 | It Lives, It Breathes | "Elevated" | single | or minds. |
| 29 | Dead Leaves | "Bloodshot" | single | We sleep to catapult ourselves into the next day, |
| 30 | Hey Violet | "My Consequence" | From The Outside | with no real reason to expect more from it than today, |
| 31 | Lorde | "The Louvre" | Melodrama | but too many unreal reasons to count. |
| 32 | Terror Jr | "Appreciation" | Bop City 2: TerroRising | Simple methods engender immanent complexity. |
| 33 | Hotel Apache | "Stay" | I'll Explain Later 5 | Nostalgic futurism is a costume aesthetic. |
| 34 | Jefre Cantu-Ledesma | "The Faun" | On The Echoing Green | Abstraction is realism viewed from the side or the inside or beyond. |
| 35 | Mammút | "The Moon Will Never Turn on Me" | single | Impossibly distant islands are places where you can land and eat the things they think you think they're going to offer you. |
| 36 | Roll the Dice | "The Derailed" | Born to Ruin | (Except the cod chips, which you're welcome to purchase as long as you do not open the package in any space constrained by walls |
| 37 | Siavash Amini | "Face On The Sand" | TAR | or an asteroid belt.) |
| 38 | Eschaton | "Origin" | Interstellar Signals | Some machines are designed to make noise when they're working correctly, some when they are not; |
| 39 | Slow Dancing Society | "Overture" | I. Lilac Lullabies 5 | some are designed to produce noises first, and then you decide. |
| 40 | Estiva | "Unowa" | Unowa / Dada 2 | Or not "decide", exactly, |
| 41 | Bassnectar | "Was Will Be (feat. Mimi Page)" | single | as much as effuse. |
| 42 | Nosaj Thing | "All Points Back To U (feat. Steve Spacek)" | single | If Plato had been a singer, the teardrop would have been both an elemental solid |
| 43 | Com Truise | "...Of Your Fake Dimension" | Iteration | and a simple machine, |
| 44 | HEALTH | "STONEFIST - BOYS NOIZE x HEALTH x EMPRESS OF :: STONEFIST RMX" | DISCO3+ | and there would have been a whole volume of footnotes clarifying that no machine is ever truly simple, |
| 45 | Miracle Of Sound | "The Moment" | single | and the Republic would have been sacked by slow-motion centaurs |
| 46 | Per Gessle | "Tittar på dej när du dansar" | Tittar på dej när du dansar +1 | in whatever you call letter-jackets when the letters are foreign runes against domestic misfortune. |
| 47 | Hökartorget | "Känna Allt" | single | We are accreted from sediment and sentiment, |
| 48 | Södra Station | "16" | Bastugatan - EP 6 | chasing glaciers back to where they came from and then collecting what they have abandoned in their flight |
| 49 | Astro Bunny | "蒸發的世界剩下我" | single | and helplessly emulating their grace. |
| 50 | ITOWOKASHI | "スタートライン" | single | All of these dreams in which were are ice |
| 51 | Leprous | "From the Flame" | single | and complicated fragility |
| 52 | Igorrr | "Houmous" | Savage Sinusoid | and frenetic delirious algebras of escape; |
| 53 | Wide Eyes | "Paradoxica" | Paradoxica | these are lovestripped stories of ordinary yearning |
| 54 | Thessa | "Severen" | Severen | in cryptonomic formatting |
| 55 | Giada | "Non lasciarmi andare" | single | and intoxicated kerning that draws our characters up against each other. |
| 56 | Irama | "Mi drogherò" | single | We melt. |
| 57 | Yair Elazar Glotman | "Orchid Sedation" | Negative Chambers | We refine irrigation theories and pace empty spaces where we imagine gardens. |
| 58 | Bellman | "Getaway" | single | We bloom in moonlit |
| 59 | Eli Young Band | "Old Songs" | Fingerprints | back yards, |
| 60 | Jon Wolfe | "Any Night in Texas" | Any Night in Texas | and try to clean off the traces of where we came from, |
| 61 | Aaron Lewis | "Folded Flag" | single | no less so when we don't return, |
| 62 | WÖYH! | "Rapuarmeija" | single | or keep returning to places we haven't seen before. |
| 63 | Tiffany | "Can't Stop Falling" | single | And just when you think you're alone, |
| 64 | Kurt Hugo Schneider | "Castle on the Hill" | Kurt & Company Vol 1 | somebody else's nostalgia swells up inside of you |
| 65 | City Calm Down | "Blood" | single | until you are made of stretched skin over cures for other people's heartbreak, |
| 66 | Luca Brasi | "Got to Give" | single | and bruises, |
| 67 | Toothless | "The Dress Looks Nice On You" | Palm's - EP 6 | and standby lights, |
| 68 | See Through Dresses | "Lucy's Arm" | single | and power-drill dizziness |
| 69 | Backpacks | "No Name" | Bad Dream 6 | right before the power cuts out |
| 70 | HUNGER | "In Color" | single | and the night, left to its own energies, fluoresces. |
| 71 | Bad Cop, Bad Cop | "Victoria" | Warriors | I wanted more Slingbacks albums. Getting what you want is an art of disentangling irresistible love from unsatisfiable constraints. |
| 72 | Worriers | "Future Me" | single | More Salem 66, more American Measles. |
| 73 | Chelsea Wolfe | "16 Psyche" | single | More shrieking echoes. |
| 74 | Benito Kamelas | "El Rincón de Mi Cabeza" | El Rincón de Mi Cabeza | More heartlands, |
| 75 | Rivermaya | "Manila" | single | more home towns, |
| 76 | D'banj | "It's Not a Lie" | single | more truths. |
| 77 | Hidden Orchestra | "Alyth" | Dawn Chorus | We hear different things, but we use and reuse the same air. |
| 78 | Moby | "A Softer War" | More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse | We are obsessively scattered in our quests, |
| 79 | B Boys | "Another Thing" | Dada | and yet we gather to collate and/or disdain each other's treasures, |
| 80 | Mechanist | "Econ" | Liliaceae | and thus our cities develop sympathetic atmosphere from so much time listening to us breathe, |
| 81 | Kaleida | "Echo Saw You" | single | mostly missing the meaning |
| 82 | Tenebre | "Them" | Territory II 3 | in order to find and show us the patterns we imply. |
| 83 | Songhoy Blues | "Badji" | Résistance | Humanity is how we are always bending these patterns again, |
| 84 | Tata Barahona | "Al cantar del gallo" | Andar por las cuerdas | in order to wrap their reflected shadows around us. |