| 1 | The Weather Station | "Tried to Tell You" | Tried to Tell You +1 | The slow, seductive joy of new familiar things |
| 2 | Taylor Acorn | "Somebody Else" | single | is made of the same current as the jolt of discovery |
| 3 | Yemi Alade | "Turn Up" | Empress | in the same way that reluctant exhalation |
| 4 | Mobi Dixon | "Ubukho Bakho/ Khanyisa (feat. Berita)" | The Chapel | releases the same air collected in mystified gasps |
| 5 | Mzee wa Bwax | "Akutake Nani" | single | and held awaiting unlikely outcomes. |
| 6 | Samthing Soweto | "Weekend" | single | Exploration is improvised rehearsal for habit, |
| 7 | Zete D'roba | "The Silent" | Silent Production 3 | or else habit is exploration given context; |
| 8 | Tekno | "Enjoy" | single | the legends are unclear on this point, |
| 9 | Mòo & Jo | "Jupiter - Caiiro Remix" | Jupiter 3 | defiant, |
| 10 | Tshala Muana | "Ingratitude" | single | as if daring us to make up our own minds. |
| 11 | Yvonne Chaka Chaka | "Umqombothi 2.0" | single | "You have heard this song before", they tell us, |
| 12 | Mobi Dixon | "Camagu (feat. Nichume & Blomzit Avenue)" | The Chapel | smiling, happy for us to believe them or not, |
| 13 | Yemi Alade | "Rain" | Empress | cheerfully anticipating any combination of recognition and doubt. |
| 14 | Within Temptation | "The Purge" | The Purge +3 | We fight over their meanings, |
| 15 | Aeternitas | "Fountain of Youth" | Haunted Minds | leaving the deeper satisfaction of ambivalence untouched. |
| 16 | Chrysilia | "Dragunera: Act II" | single | Love does not nominate and then eliminate. |
| 17 | Moyra | "The Eyes of Rats" | single | We aspire nihilistically to reduce each year |
| 18 | TRiDENT | "JUST FIGHT" | JUST DO IT !!! 3 | to a single pop performance by a trio or septet, |
| 19 | 燐舞曲 | "prayer[s]" | prayer[s] +1 | a single production of subversive audio, |
| 20 | WAGAMAMA RAKIA | "SURVIVE" | single | one regional Japanese music album (including kawaii metal), |
| 21 | H-el-ical// | "disclose" | disclose +3 | one invalid official URL -- |
| 22 | m!sa | "WHITE WAVES" | single | or else we resist this constant reductive temptation, |
| 23 | eimie | "Night and Day" | Kill your ANTHEM -ANOTHER- 6 | and vote for everyone and all of us at once, |
| 24 | 小男孩樂團 | "回不去的回憶 - 三立/台視神幻旗艦大戲《天巡者》插曲" | single | unranked-choice ballots exuberantly conflating abstruse subregional politics |
| 25 | cosMo@bousouP | "Fuiuchi no kanjou hatsuro wa konki mo misui ni owaru" | single | and symbolic pixelated pageantry, |
| 26 | Alisa Takigawa | "MAGIC" | prism. 5 | fighting duotone gerrymandering with brightsparkle chaos. |
| 27 | Hitsujibungaku | "あいまいでいいよ" | single | Any force can commandeer hope, or arpeggios. |
| 28 | クレナズム | "キミのいない世界" | eyes on you 6 | We fight against entropy, because the opposite of fighting entropy |
| 29 | DREAMCATCHER | "No More" | single | is death, |
| 30 | Dark Tranquillity | "Remain in the Unknown" | Moment | but who would we be without it? |
| 31 | Moonspell | "The Greater Good" | single | 10,000 steps :: 10,000 chances to fall. |
| 32 | Frosttide | "We Will Be Gone" | single | We pass our most mundane days in inexplicable magic. |
| 33 | Human Fortress | "The Grimoire - Remastered" | single | The legends are as emphatic on this point |
| 34 | Korpiklaani | "Mylly" | Mylly +1 | as they are evasive on its reasoning. |
| 35 | Knogjärn | "Likbil" | Kvarlevor | Do you blame us for wanting preemptive forgiveness |
| 36 | The Anix | "Unveil" | Unveil +1 | for the earnest errors we are at this moment preparing to make? |
| 37 | Thorr | "Rogue" | Wasteland | Hope is a trap |
| 38 | glaive | "dnd" | cypress grove | guarding a secret tunnel |
| 39 | Yurms | "A Ballad of Self Worth" | single | leading to a hidden world. |
| 40 | Call Me Karizma | "Fire Escape" | single | You can go and return, |
| 41 | POPSTARBILLS | "COOL GUY" | single | forever changed by insane implausibilities |
| 42 | nascar aloe | "Dysfunctional" | Battery Clash! EGO Bite 3 | you have seen implemented with the elegance of inevitability. |
| 43 | hm.wav | "nightspawn" | single | Your stories will be disbelieved. |
| 44 | 5v | "ur fault" | ur fault / hazmat 2 | How you tell them depends on how productively resigned you can become |
| 45 | 8485 | "Duress" | single | to narrative existence as metaphor. |
| 46 | i9bonsai | "let it out" | single | We rarely actually lead. |
| 47 | Petal Supply | "You're So Pretty" | single | Leading is too hard, |
| 48 | Cowboy Black | "imperialem" | Cowboy, Again | the clearest future still too difficult to distinguish from all the compelling adjacent disasters. |
| 49 | Terror Jr | "Finish Lines" | Rancho Catastrophe | To long for leaders |
| 50 | Vivienne Chi | "White Lies" | single | is to imagine that uncertainty can be resolved by rotating procrastination from time into space. |
| 51 | milet | "The Hardest" | single | You cannot vote away your own crises of identity, |
| 52 | Ashnikko | "Daisy" | Daisy +1 | any more than you need to vote in each of your own multitudes. |
| 53 | Juice Menace | "Hadouken Freestyle" | 029 EP 6 | You can track your heroes by the smell of your own projected grace, |
| 54 | Nolay | "Choke on My Name" | single | but you'll find them at the back of a cave, |
| 55 | Nyemiah Supreme | "Blessings" | single | huddled in wan firelight, |
| 56 | CeeFineAss | "Kiss and Tell" | single | organizing frayed trading cards of you and your friends and your fears. |
| 57 | GIRLI | "Letter to My Ex" | single | Turn around. We are not creatures of darkness or stone. |
| 58 | Spyres | "I Don't Care" | single | You came from so far, but at the end you are tested for your willingness to leave the cave with nothing. |
| 59 | Tired Lion | "Diet Sick" | Breakfast For Pathetics | The legends consume more than they provide. |
| 60 | Psychobabel | "Chaotic Neutral" | single | These aren't the druids you're looking for. |
| 61 | Lande Hekt | "Undone" | single | It is polite to offer salvation in return, |
| 62 | SVRCINA | "Catch the Light" | single | relying on rejection. |
| 63 | Ligabue | "Volente o nolente (feat. Elisa)" | single | You can't save other people until you have saved yourself, |
| 64 | Roxette | "Piece Of Cake" | Piece Of Cake +2 | and once you have saved yourself, it is too late. |
| 65 | Aleks Syntek | "Eclipse de Luna" | single | There are a thousand verses about what it feels like to realize this for the first time, |
| 66 | Nitrate | "Waiting on You" | Real World | and half of them begin "We are sure about nothing, |
| 67 | ACME | "RISING SUN" | RISING SUN +1 | so that's where we will start." |
| 68 | Novelbright | "あなたを求めただけなのに" | single | I miss trying on pants I don't need. |
| 69 | BLUE ENCOUNT | "VOLCANO DANCE" | Q.E.D | I miss waiting in tiny glass-walled rooms with friends to see if scheduled meetings are really going to happen |
| 70 | DEZERT | "Your Song" | single | or matter. |
| 71 | ZON | "‘Damn it’" | single | You cannot vote away your own incomprehensible lungs. |
| 72 | Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai | "Kinniku my friend" | 2020 | Catastrophe is consequence plus rounding errors. |
| 73 | Emptiness | "L'ailleurs" | single | In a 10k ocean, |
| 74 | Liturgy | "The Separation of HAQQ From HAEL" | Origin of the Alimonies | a 9k peak is the shrouded demesne of contemplative leviathans, |
| 75 | Liturgy | "Apparition of the Eternal Church" | Origin of the Alimonies | a 9999m peak is the planet's sword for killing ships of fools, |
| 76 | Hermóðr | "Two Ravens" | Korpsträd | and a 1001m peak is the paradise we have sought for plunder. |
| 77 | Tombs | "Void Constellation" | Under Sullen Skies | We become free by learning to breathe salt water or open space, |
| 78 | Communic | "Scavengers Await" | Hiding from the World | and empowered by how much else we are able to translate into the same revelatory fictions. |
| 79 | Maraton | "Almost Human" | Meta + | The legends smile and say "Now you see how we ended up this way. |
| 80 | Loch Vostok | "Disillusion" | single | We were as sure as you are in this perfect moment, |
| 81 | VOLA | "Head Mounted Sideways" | single | and just as comprehensively wrong, |
| 82 | 616 | "Black Diamond" | single | and just as magnificently determined to be undeterred by pervasion. |
| 83 | Light Field Reverie | "Ultraviolet" | Another World | We stood on a cliff on the edge of a misidentified glacier, |
| 84 | pg.lost | "Oscillate" | Oscillate | and claimed all of that ice as sky. |
| 85 | Lugburz Sleed | "ηTau•Αλκυόνη" | M45•ΠΛΕΙΆΔΕΣ | It's gone now, melted, |
| 86 | Loski | "Teddy Bruckshot 2" | Music, Trial & Trauma: A Drill Story | and in this way our prescience was established, |
| 87 | Hacktivist | "Armoured Core" | single | and our statures inscribed. |
| 88 | CLOUDLAND | "Lights" | single | We were the ones who knew that helplessness is a muscle. |
| 89 | KennyHoopla | "ESTELLA// (feat. Travis Barker)" | single | We were the ones willing to sell ourselves forged credentials |
| 90 | Luca Brasi | "Every Time You're Here (I'm Gone)" | Every Time You're Here (I'm Gone) +1 | from a future balanced on the fragile fulcrum between impossible and undesirable. |
| 91 | Nomy | "Want you bad" | Want you bad | We got up every morning and drowned |
| 92 | Koe Wetzel | "FGA" | Sellout | until the ocean grew tired of this game and went in search of other depths, |
| 93 | The Spider Accomplice | "Oil Meets Rain" | single | and that's why it still floods here when it rains. |
| 94 | Jet Black Alley Cat | "Ready for This" | single | You have heard this song before. |
| 95 | Soft Kill | "Wanting War" | Dead Kids R.I.P. City | We sang you to sleep with it when you were a baby |
| 96 | Outline In Color | "Poison Prescribed As Medicine" | single | and we were the intractable wind. |
| 97 | Volunteer | "It's Been a Long Time" | The Ride | We taunted you with it from behind the clouds |
| 98 | Hindarfjäll | "Gudarnas Skymning" | Från Tidernas Begynnelse | when you were in love and alone |
| 99 | Herknungr | "Hólmgöngumaður" | Langfeðgar | and not yet become your own gods in turn. |
| 100 | Agðir | "Fordums Veg" | single | We sing it, still, knowing that one day your voice will join ours. |
| 101 | Sewerslvt | "Live at A2B2 Night of Fire 13/11/20 - Live" | single | The slow, inexorable return of tears and other water |
| 102 | PassCode | "Maze of mind - PassCode STARRY TOUR 2020 FINAL at KT Zepp Yokohama" | PassCode STARRY TOUR 2020 FINAL at KT Zepp Yokohama | is made of the same history as the sinkholes and oases |
| 103 | Diamond Head | "No Remorse" | single | we mapped as if geology could be disentangled from belief. |
| 104 | Ellefson | "Holiday in Cambodia" | No Cover | Exploration is a meager apology for complacency, |
| 105 | Helene Fischer | "Who Wants To Live Forever" | single | but the only one of any value. |
| 106 | 8-Bit Arcade | "Jump (8-Bit Computer Game Version)" | The Ultimate Van Halen | We are clear on this, if little else. But maybe you can do better when it's your turn, one day, today, now." |