| 1 | Pale Waves | "You Don't Own Me" | single | It's bright and warm today, and we're all out dancing between games and shows, feeding each other biscuits. |
| 2 | MALKA | "Reach Out" | single | I mean, technically speaking, it's gray and cold here, |
| 3 | Moonlight Social | "What Do You Want From Me?" | single | and we're at least months away from dancing in any collective sense, |
| 4 | Nasty Cherry | "Lucky" | single | and a jubilant normal-times fondness for biscuits is more or less why I had to spend the first year of the pandemic running in river loops and doing chin-ups in the doorway of my daughter's bedroom |
| 5 | Chapel Hart | "You Can Have Him Jolene" | single | to get back into the shape my body is when I'm using it, |
| 6 | Juliana Hatfield | "Mouthful of Blood" | single | and "normal" wasn't good enough four years ago, never mind one. |
| 7 | Thyla | "Breathe" | single | But I feel calmer, more patient with songs that take a minute to accelerate, |
| 8 | YONAKA | "Seize the Power" | single | more receptive to sideways movements. |
| 9 | Helena Paparizou | "Adiexodo" | Apohrosis | Sideways movements are, on the days we will have again, the difference between dancing and fleeing, |
| 10 | Ainoa Buitrago | "Dispárame" | single | and how cartography is different from geometry, |
| 11 | TeZATalks | "SKIN DEEP" | single | and why it's interesting to hear people sing instead of merely screaming their fears |
| 12 | Nasty Jack | "So Solid Harvey" | single | or muttering their misconceptions. |
| 13 | Rakky Ripper | "Whatever" | single | We danced half of the time in the dark, at least. |
| 14 | Tsuki Amano | "Starting Over" | single | It's easy to forget what we did with feelings |
| 15 | ASCA | "進化論" | 百希夜行 | when it didn't feel like victory to even have them, |
| 16 | DREAMCATCHER | "New days" | [Dystopia : Road to Utopia] | or how we taped posters to walls in even ground-floor rooms |
| 17 | aLf | "Winners (From "Cyber Formula")" | single | before the floods. |
| 18 | Drinking Boys and Girls Choir | "Gonna tell you" | single | We were restless and quick, |
| 19 | 斉藤 朱夏 | "セカイノハテ" | single | and it didn't yet feel like panic, |
| 20 | RAISE A SUILEN | "mind of Prominence" | mind of Prominence +1 | and we struggle to grasp the infinite |
| 21 | 栗林みな実 | "残酷な夢と眠れ" | 残酷な夢と眠れ +3 | until it's no longer relevant. |
| 22 | Utsu-P | "ダブルラリアット [Double Bass Drum Remix 2021]" | single | I don't mean that we grasp it, |
| 23 | Circus of Fools | "Affair of the Poisons Part IV: The Iron Mask" | single | or that we stop struggling, |
| 24 | Souls Of Diotima | "The Dark Lady" | Janas | but we learn, maybe, to disentangle curiosity from the unknowable. |
| 25 | Scarlet Dorn | "Back to the Ground" | Blood Red Bouquet | If religious awe is the feeling of submitting yourself to guidance that cannot be interrogated, |
| 26 | Crashing Atlas | "Graveyard" | single | then rationalist, humanist curiosity is the willingness to ackowledge that your movements are not guided, |
| 27 | DEAR MOTHER | "Symbiose" | single | and then to keep making them. |
| 28 | TVINNA | "Partus" | single | We do not move to escape from our flaws, |
| 29 | Bjarla | "Starkaðr" | single | not by running and not by dancing. |
| 30 | Hrafngrímr | "Fylgja" | single | We do not exercise to lose anything we have earned, |
| 31 | Danheim | "Runamal" | single | we do not perform rituals to become our ancestors again. |
| 32 | Hadadanza | "¡Derry Dol!" | single | We fight against entropy. |
| 33 | Ainur | "Spirit Of Fire" | single | We organize the darkness. |
| 34 | Aetherian | "Primordial Woods" | single | We take whatever narrow range of wavelengths we are alive for, |
| 35 | Einherjer | "The Blood and the Iron" | single | and spread them across the bounds of what we know |
| 36 | Tribulation | "In Remembrance" | Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | until we think of new words |
| 37 | Minutian | "Magical Thinking" | single | for the worlds just beyond what we thought were the edges. |
| 38 | Reach | "New Frontier" | single | The unknown worlds outnumber the known. |
| 39 | Soen | "Lumerian" | IMPERIAL | The days that remain to you |
| 40 | Celestial Sanctuary | "Soul Diminished" | single | outnumber the days you can relive. |
| 41 | Luciferian | "The Bringer of Light" | Luciferian | The dark lord comes to you in a chariot drawn by a three-headed wolf, |
| 42 | BAEST | "Necro Sapiens" | Necro Sapiens +2 | and you say "Dude, the left head is about to fall off, and is the right one supposed to be an...ostrich? |
| 43 | Scarlxrd | "Evil Egx" | single | Also, why is your wolf licking my shoe? This bit behind the ears is so soft. Is it OK if I pet her?" |
| 44 | Kamiyada+ | "Metal In Me" | single | And the dark lord says "Of course, it's friendly", even though he knows it snaps at people when it gets excited, |
| 45 | Saturnultra | "GOOD LUCK!" | single | because otherwise he would have to say "No, it's a miserable violent pet |
| 46 | lieu | "u could never" | single | and dogs only become wolves out of obscene neglect." |
| 47 | Yurms | "Heart in a Jar" | single | Candor is not a goal, |
| 48 | m1v | "br41nd34d" | single | it is a reward. |
| 49 | Goffie | "Absurd" | single | Anger is a fossil fuel |
| 50 | Lil Skele | "i bet he's giving you everything, it's killing me" | single | made by burying resentments |
| 51 | Anxiety Attacks! | "i haven't smiled since the 90s" | single | in our skin until they transform: themselves or more often us. |
| 52 | AIRFLIP | "My Last Rebellion" | All For One | We have been stupid and contagious, |
| 53 | Kiro Akiyama | "アイデンティティ" | アイデンティティ +1 | and the vaccines for the former require near-continuous doses. |
| 54 | NEO JAPONISM | "Identity" | THE SPIRIT | We don't become immune, we become immutable |
| 55 | reGretGirl | "Route 26" | Curtain Call | and then constantly replace our immutable selves with marginally-improved versions. |
| 56 | Los Flamingos | "Querernos a Deshoras" | single | Before you go to sleep, let go of one small ignorance |
| 57 | Stunde Null | "uneinig einig" | Wie laut die Stille schreit | and two things you thought you knew beyond doubt. |
| 58 | Tunes Of Dawn | "A Letter To Watson" | single | The lands beyond doubt are reachable and pristine, |
| 59 | Annisokay | "Overload" | Aurora | but not habitable. |
| 60 | LEVARA | "Automatic" | Automatic +2 | The dark lord is just a guy with a dog who knows neither of them is happy, |
| 61 | Niiice. | "$20 Mints" | single | and some costume heads, |
| 62 | Handsome Prick | "Family Style Suffering" | Plastic Baby Living Facility | and time he hasn't been willing to spend on joy. |
| 63 | Loveless | "Smile" | single | They both need biscuits, and dancing, and a doorway. |
| 64 | Oslo Ovnies | "Istmo" | single | Don't give up yet. |
| 65 | Our Last Night | "you broke me first" | single | The future is always the same length, |
| 66 | Morbid Fears | "Rfid" | Silver Fist 4 | but the individual days are always getting longer |
| 67 | LNZNDRF | "The Xeric Steppe" | II | on half of the earth. |
| 68 | Long Distance Calling | "Black Shuck" | single | We do not need easier or clearer or fewer paths, |
| 69 | Arms and Sleepers | "one wing toward the ground, one wing toward the heavens" | Only God Forgives 5 | we need the courage and persistence to inhabit complexity |
| 70 | Harakiri for the Sky | "Song to Say Goodbye" | single | and ambiguity |
| 71 | SOPHIE | "UNISIL" | single | and all the space around ourselves we have mistakenly learned to think of as outside. |