| 1 | Gaahls WYRD | "Ghosts Invited" | single | We are the avatars of our fragility, |
| 2 | Drudkh | "Autumn in Sepia" | single | our silhouettes delineated by the plumage of a reconciliatory denial of inevitability. |
| 3 | Downfall Of Gaia | "Guided Through a Starless Night" | Ethic of Radical Finitude | We are blasted repeatedly into voids, |
| 4 | Yeruselem | "Babel" | The Sublime | catalogued by our nemeses, |
| 5 | Xenoblight | "Descension" | Procreation | lowered into solvents. |
| 6 | Imperia | "Book of Love" | single | And yet we take this moment to fall in love, |
| 7 | Against Myself | "Unity" | Unity | to imagine our scattered selves as one, |
| 8 | Beast In Black | "Cry out for a Hero" | From Hell with Love | to imagine that the one is us. |
| 9 | November-7 | "Whole Lotta Love" | single | There are no new questions and no new answers, but innumerable permutations still awaiting. |
| 10 | Echoes Of Eternity | "Smoke and Mirrors" | Ageless | The only significant enemy of truth is the fear of error, |
| 11 | Týr | "Sunset Shore" | single | but this is an illusion based on the mistaken impression that truth and error oppose. |
| 12 | Vanir | "Svoldir" | single | We create temporary truths by bundling errors together in such a way that you slice through them in cross-section and reveal the knowing face of a forgotten god. |
| 13 | The Interbeing | "Depressor" | single | Thus one medium is used to render |
| 14 | machineheart | "Overgrown" | People Change | another. |
| 15 | Kerli | "Legends" | single | Thus are all of our fables structured. |
| 16 | Labirinto | "Divino Afflante Spiritu" | Divino Afflante Spiritu | For this reason did we leave the ocean, |
| 17 | Nkisi | "The Dark Orchestra" | The Dark Orchestra +3 | and so too for this reason does it remain, rising to reclaim us. |
| 18 | Lobby Boxer | "Grandpa Donut" | Eugene's Preference 4 | But today, for now, we're dry enough |
| 19 | DESU.RABBITS | "sotsugyou shoujo" | single | for our sparkledrones to circle. |
| 20 | SHE'S | "Used To Be" | Now & Then | It is our genius to choreograph exactly how we fall |
| 21 | kankakupiero | "落書きペイジ" | 落書きペイジ +2 | in predetermined and necessary directions. |
| 22 | Brett | "Tenenbaum" | single | Then again, there is no cure. |
| 23 | Periphery | "Blood Eagle" | single | Character is how you welcome the invaders you can't repel, |
| 24 | Dream Theater | "Paralyzed" | single | whether they arrive in subtle darkness or superfluous motorcade. |
| 25 | Atarashii Gakkou No Leaders | "恋ゲバ" | single | "Leaders" is not a Japanese word, made of not-Japanese syllables. |
| 26 | HYDE | "ZIPANG - Japanese Version" | ZIPANG 2 | How do you hold yourself when you stand up in front of people you don't expect to understand you? |
| 27 | MADKID | "RISE" | single | Can you get them out of their seats? |
| 28 | Aoi | "思い出の匂い" | single | Can you get them to dance |
| 29 | YUZUKINGDOM | "Memento Mori" | PANDEMIC 5 | before it's too late? |
| 30 | Be Forest | "Atto I" | Knocturne | Of course they will look down, at first. |
| 31 | HEALTH | "BLACK STATIC" | VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR | Strangers are terrifying. |
| 32 | Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard | "Yn Ol i Annwn" | single | If you stand up, what have you endorsed? |
| 33 | NateWantsToBattle | "99.9" | single | Other people's anthems are glorious; |
| 34 | AmaLee | "Touch Off (From "The Promised Neverland")" | single | other people's politics are weird. |
| 35 | Parry Gripp | "Hailing Taquitos" | single | Irony is a limited defense. |
| 36 | Charly Bliss | "Capacity" | single | So let it go. |
| 37 | Ex Hex | "Tough Enough" | single | When you stand up, you stand for your own reasons. |
| 38 | Arisa | "Una nuova Rosalba in città" | Una nuova Rosalba in città | I stand up for ancestry I mostly didn't know, |
| 39 | Nek | "Mi farò trovare pronto" | single | from spinning piazzas I have not yet been. |
| 40 | Anna Tatangelo | "Tutto ciò che serve" | La fortuna sia con me | I stand up for recognizing other people's joy, |
| 41 | Irama | "La ragazza con il cuore di latta" | single | and for pushing other people's ambivalence towards joy by defiant example. |
| 42 | The Zen Circus | "L'amore è una dittatura" | single | I stand up for preserving grudges gently as you move them to well-lit museums. |
| 43 | Shade | "Senza farlo apposta" | single | I stand for ceremony |
| 44 | Ojete Calor | "Mocatriz" | single | and paranoid urgency |
| 45 | Amistades Peligrosas | "Amor Que Entiende" | Pacto de Sal | and tradition as costume |
| 46 | Blender | "Shallow" | single | and costumes as skin. |
| 47 | Jill Johnson | "Is It Hard Being A Man" | single | None of these things are exactly easy, |
| 48 | Susanna | "Wilderness" | single | or come to us instinctively. |
| 49 | Meridian Dan | "Vegan Chat" | single | Do you know who you want to be? |
| 50 | Yizzy | "Yeah" | single | How many choices have been taken from you by institutionalized assumptions, |
| 51 | Merely | "Mystery Garden" | single | and how can you resurrect them as variations on the ones you are supposedly allowed? |
| 52 | As December Falls | "Bad for You" | As December Falls | I will accept any number of bands that sound exactly like this. |
| 53 | Calling All Captains | "Out of My Head" | Nothing Grows Here 5 | Our emotions are complex and usually tinged with awareness of too much, |
| 54 | Awaken the Giant | "Miles Away" | single | too close. |
| 55 | Pet Shop Boys | "What are we going to do about the rich?" | Agenda 4 | We try to stay serious about our so-real crises, |
| 56 | Ruby Fields | "The Unguarded Moment - triple j Like A Version" | single | but god, we remember how we felt when we heard this song originally, |
| 57 | Niniola | "Designer" | single | or some other song with the same wheezy exuberance, |
| 58 | Moonlight Cove | "Stay Forever Away" | Orphans of the Storm | in some other moment we wanted to never end. |
| 59 | Pera | "Sorarım Hayatı" | single | We hear a question we're not supposed to be answering, and think "Wait, what if?!" |
| 60 | Steve Earle | "L.A. Freeway" | single | We drive down the narrow path between incendiary hills |
| 61 | Kaotiko | "Vamos a Volar" | Aprende Violencia | that leads away. |
| 62 | Barilari | "Infierock" | Infierock | November rain will put all this fire out. What month is it now? |
| 63 | Max Corbacho | "The Invisible Embrace" | single | Oh. Hmm. |
| 64 | MZ. 412 | "Öppna Hegrind" | Svartmyrkr | So you either wait, or you stare down the fire with avenging empathy. |
| 65 | Blood Command | "Afraid Of Water" | single | I will accept one more band that sounds exactly like this. |
| 66 | Hannah Georgas | "Love Is A Stranger" | single | After Brexit, of course, all Eurythmics songs must be remade by non-British artists. |
| 67 | Francisco el Hombre | "CHAMA ADRENALINA" | single | Obviously this has appoximately already happened, and at this point happens again every 7 minutes. |
| 68 | Lakker | "A Whisper in Your Ear" | single | We fear to lose anything, but we could reconstruct a full human culture from scratch in a day. |
| 69 | Jo Black | "Voel Jy Die Genade" | Voel Jy Die Genade | We have it each inside of us, |
| 70 | Tullycraft | "Has Your Boyfriend Lost His Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight_" | The Railway Prince Hotel | Svalbard seed banks in our hearts, |
| 71 | Sisters of Suffocation | "The Machine" | single | and the schematics for robots that ache to take over, |
| 72 | Xavier Boscher | "Polar Fox" | Zoologica Duodecim #2 : Pack Ice 5 | yearn to drive us north and then across the icy water. |
| 73 | Orla Gartland | "Why Am I Like This?" | single | How did we end up this way? |
| 74 | Emarosa | "Hell Of It" | Peach Club | It kind of doesn't matter. |
| 75 | Ifriqiyya Electrique | "He Eh Lalla" | single | It's now now. |
| 76 | Now or Never | "Song of Hope" | Bright Again 3 | Thus are our fable pages cleared blank again. |
| 77 | JABBA DA FOOTBALL CLUB | "i&i" | DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY 4 | "Once" we start, and then how are we going to live? |
| 78 | The Anix | "TECHUNTER" | single | What rules will we write for the purposes of subverting, |
| 79 | Bob Mould | "Thirty Dozen Roses" | Sunshine Rock | and which ones are important? |
| 80 | Pyrxciter | "Black Sacrament" | single | We crunch the glittering shards of our shot-down sparkledrones as we walk, as we stand, even as we try to hold still and still end up standing for something. |