| 1 | The 2 Johnnies | "Sinéad" | single | Glibness collapses into yearning. |
| 2 | Poppy | "Concrete" | single | Maybe there was never entirely a difference. |
| 3 | The Menzingers | "America (You're Freaking Me Out)" | America (You're Freaking Me Out) +1 | Punk rock was about love. Rebellion is about transcendence. |
| 4 | 18th & Addison | "When I'm Alone" | single | We sing about loneliness, |
| 5 | Cyan Kicks | "Feathers" | I Don't Love You | and like everything else, it gives us away. |
| 6 | Bronnie | "Stay" | single | We have anthems imploring the hero not to go on a journey, |
| 7 | Taylor Swift | "Cruel Summer" | Lover | dance jewels waiting for a stranger who never comes. |
| 8 | The Band CAMINO | "What I Want" | tryhard | We say we sing about loneliness, |
| 9 | Nemesea | "White Flag" | White Flag | but like every other posture of nominal surrender, |
| 10 | Elephant Gun Riot | "Man Down" | single | we strike it fully aware of which lights will result in our casting which shadows. |
| 11 | Kolokol | "Fanfare" | Fanfare +1 | We are championed by matte waifs wielding bright swords, |
| 12 | Minniva | "Amongst Stars" | single | and whatever climbs out of the carapaces of the old gods. |
| 13 | Kobra And The Lotus | "Get the F*ck out of Here" | Get the F*ck out of Here +1 | We are marshaled for escape, |
| 14 | MoonSun | "Into the Fire" | single | but always going back. |
| 15 | Visions of Atlantis | "Nothing Lasts Forever" | single | Listen to your heart. |
| 16 | Metalite | "Far from the Sanctuary" | single | It has a resonant frequency; |
| 17 | South Haven | "Sweet Suffering" | single | you think you have limits. |
| 18 | Koutei Camera Girl Drei | "Be There" | Be There EP 2 | Both of these are negotiations |
| 19 | Juliet Simms | "100 Little Deaths" | single | considered with more earnestness |
| 20 | Bat For Lashes | "Jasmine" | Jasmine +3 | than perspective. |
| 21 | SABINA | "Biegnę przy Tobie" | single | Are you prepared to find a muse who sounds to you like she's singing backward? |
| 22 | Kim Gordon | "Sketch Artist" | Sketch Artist +1 | Or sideways? |
| 23 | cadode | "リメンバー feat.Melanie" | single | This has something to do with how you hold your head, |
| 24 | Ivy to Fraudulent Game | "blue blue blue" | single | but at walking speeds, less than you think. |
| 25 | FERN PLANET | "Ilusion" | Bokurano Träumerei 6 | We are cantilevered out over our censures of gravity, |
| 26 | Survive Said The Prophet | "Mukanjyo" | Mukanjyo +2 | falling as gracefully as we can tolerate, |
| 27 | Blame Me! | "What a Waste" | single | in order to sustain the illusion that tolerance is ours to bestow or withhold. |
| 28 | Edenbridge | "Live and Let Go" | single | When we let go, |
| 29 | Ascend The Hollow | "Vessels" | single | we are the thing that is being released. |
| 30 | Freedom Call | "The Ace of the Unicorn" | M.E.T.A.L. | Dundee's mistake was xenophobia. |
| 31 | Eclipse | "Viva La Victoria" | single | Dehumanizing the seekers is how you make zombies, |
| 32 | REXORIA | "Reach for the Heavens in Time" | single | righteousness is how you kill them: |
| 33 | Equilibrium | "Renegades - A Lost Generation" | Renegades | this is a well-conceived and self-sustaining industry |
| 34 | Sonata Arctica | "Cold" | single | motivated by fear it has the alacrity to externalize. |
| 35 | Ewigkeit | "Point of Origin" | Starscape 2.019 | Begin again, in the New World colonies. |
| 36 | Massemord | "Dust and Void" | single | This was, of course, our founding delusional nihilism. |
| 37 | Fedrespor | "Elementene brister" | single | You perpetuate it every time you go searching for things you believe are already yours. |
| 38 | The Great Old Ones | "Nyarlathotep" | single | Exploration requires unspecified goals for an unknown transit. |
| 39 | Alcest | "Protection" | single | If you think you know what you're going to come home with, the thing you're on is not a quest, it's an errand, |
| 40 | Alfahanne | "Atomvinter" | single | and doing errands in armor is errant errantry. |
| 41 | Necronomicon | "Paradise Lost" | single | We are defied not by what we have lost, but by what we characterize as loss. |
| 42 | Cloud Rat | "Wonder" | single | Despair, too, collapses into yearning. |
| 43 | Djevel | "Illoyegd foedt som Satans barn, paa ferd uden spor af menneskeverd" | single | Maybe there was never really a difference. |
| 44 | The HU | "The Great Chinggis Khaan" | single | Legends or cautionary tales, |
| 45 | WINGTIPS | "Accidental Effigies" | Exposure Therapy | they can all be colated somehow. |
| 46 | Pom Poko | "Leg Day" | single | Remember that time you saved the world in one hour? |
| 47 | Meridian Dan | "My Angel (Freestyle)" | single | It's an hour later now, what's the rest of your plan? |
| 48 | Faze Miyake | "Eyes On Me" | single | Bluster evaporates into remorse. |
| 49 | Mugxtsu | "The End of the World" | single | We sing about hopelessness, |
| 50 | ShiGGa Shay | "if i," | single | like we sing about other treasures we will never afford, |
| 51 | Barny Fletcher | "CROPS" | single | to mark ourselves as the kind of creature who hopes, |
| 52 | Mura Masa | "I Don’t Think I Can Do This Again (with Clairo)" | single | especially in moments when we aren't sure, ourselves, of ourselves. |
| 53 | Anna Meredith | "moonmoons" | single | These abstracted iconographies are how we accept responsibility |
| 54 | Jenna Paulette | "Blue Jeans" | single | for a method of forgiveness based mostly on contact of skin. |
| 55 | Brittany Ray | "Leather Jacket" | single | We have all these solvents that dissolve bad decisions and leave behind consolation instead of cognizance. |
| 56 | Courtney Marie Andrews | "Downtown Train" | single | We have these nighttimes punched full of holes, and the lazy conviction that nobody else sees through them. |
| 57 | Karen Zoid | "DONKER NAG" | single | Your heart can switch into waltz time, |
| 58 | Jess Chalker | "Dance in the Rain" | single | the drum machines can count to anything; |
| 59 | Ash King | "Ho Jaa Awara" | single | everything hard about unfamiliar rhythms has to do with what you have claimed you embody. |
| 60 | Leander Kills | "Boldogság virág" | single | None of that is real. |
| 61 | Alter Bridge | "Take the Crown" | Take the Crown +2 | We sing about faith and power and resilience |
| 62 | New Model Army | "The Weather" | From Here | and all the times history has sagged under their weight. |
| 63 | Cim Dahlle | "Åtta Tio" | single | We sing about the small islands we're from, |
| 64 | Faspitch | "Flame" | single | in whatever climate, |
| 65 | Rich O'Toole | "California" | single | separated from notional mainlands by water or regret. |
| 66 | The Beatmotors | "Don Don Tokei ha Don't Stop !" | single | Pastiche solidifies into statuary, or is drawn out into wires. |
| 67 | Saily | "Lupakan!" | Transition 4 | Guitars are about love. |
| 68 | Hoang Thuy Linh | "Tu Phu" | single | Synthesizers are about love. |
| 69 | Halocene | "Señorita (Rock)" | single | Our songs about songs of love are about love. |
| 70 | First to Eleven | "Royals" | single | Out of this love, we have memorized each other's anthems of indifference. |
| 71 | Death Valley High | "Here Comes The Rain - Death Valley High Vs. Chris Connelly" | Duel | Out of this love, we sing about helplessness and nostalgia for helplessness and what yearning felt like when it was closer to all we had. |
| 72 | Ceres | "A Thousand Miles (triple j Like A Version)" | single | Out of or into this love, we have walked a thousand miles to fall down at this one specific door. |