| 1 | 7xvn | "Airborne" | single | Hearing is an action. |
| 2 | Holly Herndon | "Frontier" | single | Singing is a plea for listeners, and thus a request for action, |
| 3 | Snow Ghosts | "Tear Your Eyes" | A Quiet Ritual | but the space in which this action takes place is not where we stand, |
| 4 | Slingshot Dakota | "Casino Night" | single | it is a suspended cosmology in which causality obtains: |
| 5 | Of Monsters and Men | "Alligator" | single | not an afterlife, but an otherlife |
| 6 | Gold Steps | "Empty Space" | single | in which time is quantized to cadence, |
| 7 | MXMS | "Salvation Hurts" | Funeral Pop I 6 | molecular structures are reorganized by harmonic alignment, |
| 8 | THRILL YOU KILL YOU | "THRILL YOU KILL YOU" | single | despairs are not necessarily paired with redemptions but at least pointed in a direction. |
| 9 | Ina Wroldsen | "Body Parts" | single | This works because the act of capturing time sets it free. |
| 10 | Sumo Cyco | "Love You Wrong" | single | This is how we can be so much better at this than everything else. |
| 11 | Skating Polly | "Play House" | single | Songs are what's left after all the terrified parts of ourselves are detached from their fears, |
| 12 | Tacocat | "New World" | This Mess Is a Place | open wounds in which the blood is held poised, |
| 13 | Veronica Maggio | "Tillfälligheter" | single | worlds materialized by our fragility |
| 14 | Mira Luoti | "Yksi syy" | single | to be inhabited safely, and maybe edifyingly, by our strength. |
| 15 | Pongo | "Tambulaya" | Baia | It is not coincidental that cultural diversity produces more and better music, |
| 16 | Duke | "Naona Laaah" | Uingizaji Hewa | it is definitional. |
| 17 | Sheena Ringo | "駆け落ち者" | single | If you believe in your own illusory dominance, |
| 18 | uijin | "ignition" | ignition / blooming days 2 | the alternative will always seem worse. |
| 19 | AZKi | "Fake.Fake.Fake" | single | Sing a rebel song. All of these are rebel songs, because music is an inherent rebellion against entropy. |
| 20 | Candye Syrup | "Syrup" | single | You can't be pro-entropy. |
| 21 | APPARE!HARAJYUKU | "アッパライナ" | アッパライナ | At least, not for long. |
| 22 | 2 | "ホメオパシー" | 生と詩 | It's not even just that the people with no music cannot dance, |
| 23 | SLOTHREAT | "Souge" | Allium 6 | it's that they realize dancing always reveals at least one of three things: |
| 24 | HYDE | "SET IN STONE" | anti | maybe you can't dance, |
| 25 | Full Of Hell | "Armory of Obsidian Glass" | single | maybe you can dance and you're afraid to admit you share this with the rest of us, |
| 26 | Valborg | "Nahtod" | single | or maybe you can't stand not knowing which of these we'll decide when we see you move. |
| 27 | Time Lurker | "Unstable Night" | Cepheide Time Lurker Split | So this is, of course, why Trump can't bear to ever reveal anything: |
| 28 | Amon Amarth | "Mjölner, Hammer of Thor" | Berserker | not his taxes, which demonstrate he's a business amateur; |
| 29 | Kolossus | "Mantsurian Kätyri" | single | not his grades, which demonstrate he's barely semi-literate; |
| 30 | Origin | "Insanity" | Abiogenesis: A Coming Into Existence | not his scalp, a thin layer in between his insecurities and the sunlight; |
| 31 | Kampfar | "Dominans" | Ofidians Manifest | not his total inability to judge other humans individually or collectively, |
| 32 | Martyrdöd | "Pharmacepticon" | single | which is how he became famous for firing people |
| 33 | Abbath | "Calm in Ire (Of Hurricane)" | single | and racism |
| 34 | Second to Sun | "Once Upon a Time in Russia" | single | and betrayal mitigated plaintively by incompetence. |
| 35 | Stellar Master Elite | "Tetragon" | Hologram Temple | Every secret you hold in concealed orbit around your own heart |
| 36 | Tanzwut | "Galgenvögel" | single | is a gyroscope that keeps you from standing up straight or walking without a golf cart, |
| 37 | Munarheim | "Dein ist der Tag" | Willens & frei | and a shard of truth waiting to finally tear its way out through your throat. |
| 38 | Sowulo | "Brego in Breoste" | single | We have never been great. Not yet. |
| 39 | Heilung | "Othan" | single | We have been capable of sporadic nobility and perspective, |
| 40 | Tarja | "Dead Promises" | single | isolated feats of stupefying elegance, |
| 41 | Ethereal Kingdoms | "Heartchamber" | single | moments of planet-changing realization and love, |
| 42 | Myrath | "Lili Twil" | Shehili | and a general historic progression away from squallid brutality, |
| 43 | Arch/Matheos | "Wanderlust" | single | but moral bankruptcy is protected by no convenient codes of technical forgiveness. |
| 44 | Sweet Oblivion | "Sweet Oblivion" | single | You can't be a bad person just for tax purposes. |
| 45 | HÆLOS | "Another Universe" | Another Universe 5 | But you don't actually have to be a bad person, at all. |
| 46 | Murcof | "Static Discos 100" | single | You're allowed to fail, and still dance. |
| 47 | The American Dollar | "Guided by the Glowing Sea" | Music for Adventure | You're allowed to fight for terrible causes, and still recant and join us. |
| 48 | Nico Muhly | "Long Phrases For the Wilton Diptych" | single | You're allowed nostalgia, not for how things were, but for how you used to think the future would happen. |
| 49 | Aske | "Dissonant Deep Space" | Dissonant Deep Space | You're allowed to wish that cheap food were better for you. |
| 50 | Paula Temple | "Berlin" | Edge Of Everything | You're allowed to wish unity were easier, |
| 51 | Petrels | "Halls of Los" | single | or our colony ships were faster, |
| 52 | Into Orbit | "Between Stars" | Kinesis | or we had somewhere else to go. |
| 53 | Unwed Sailor | "Disintegrate" | Heavy Age | Those are all fine ideas for songs, |
| 54 | Editors | "Cold - The Blanck Mass recording" | The Blanck Mass Sessions | for new versions of the old anthems in which we hear ourselves or each other differently. |
| 55 | Bastille | "Joy" | single | Songs about joy are about joy, |
| 56 | SPINN | "Bliss" | SPINN | but so are songs about loss and fear. |
| 57 | The Ninth Wave | "This Broken Design" | Infancy Part 1 6 | Governments about loss and fear, unfortunately, are not so self-correcting. |
| 58 | I Botanici | "Mattone" | single | They can be sustained, for short destructive bursts, on resentment and entitlement and sloth. |
| 59 | Fast Animals and Slow Kids | "Radio Radio" | single | If you keep the TV on all the time, maybe nobody notices you don't even have a radio, |
| 60 | Ruby Fields | "Dingo" | Permanent Hermit | or headphones, |
| 61 | Vånna Inget | "Eld" | Utopi | or an inner life that music or private listening would nourish. |
| 62 | The Cerny Brothers | "I Wanna Love You" | Looking for the Good Land | But they do, they always do. They can hear the helicopter-blade roar of relentless noise that leaks out of your ears from the inside. |
| 63 | Bonfire | "Ready 4 Reaction" | single | You might get the tank parades you dream of, |
| 64 | Cole Rolland | "Eye of the Tiger" | single | but find the drums and bugles, too, playing rebel songs. |
| 65 | Emil Bulls | "You Should See Me in a Crown" | You Should See Me in a Crown / River 2 | We'll remember you, you win that much. |
| 66 | New Found Glory | "Let It Go" | Let It Go +3 | But no more. |