| 1 | Mzukulu | "Sanibonani" | Phendula 6 | The bass does that springy thing, rising like an inhaled breath can lift you partway into the sky, |
| 2 | UDlubheke | "Iscishamlilo Sami" | iTight | and I'm listening under a mostly clear sky on a nearly warm day, |
| 3 | Zanefa Ngidi | "Ngangenzeni" | Amangwinya | and I feel like it's not totally clear that we'll make it, |
| 4 | Chris Else | "Jy Is My Huis" | single | but that it's clear that we deserve to make it, |
| 5 | Jackson Michelson | "Three" | single | that our virtues exceed our voluminous flaws, |
| 6 | Jewel | "Almost" | Freewheelin' Woman | or outnumber them if you think they can be counted. |
| 7 | bülow | "Booty Call" | Booty Call 5 | I know hardly anything about these maskandi singers, but then I don't really know much more about these German-Canadian twenty-year-olds, either, |
| 8 | girlhouse | "cool guy" | cool guy +1 | and so either way I can easily imagine that they are all of us, |
| 9 | Xana | "i did this all for you!" | Tantrums | and we take turns making up songs for each other, |
| 10 | instant crush | "nightmare" | single | entering a lottery in which there are no jackpots, |
| 11 | Sophia Gripari | "Brunette With Baggage" | single | just tickets issued in matching pairs or dozens. |
| 12 | Kate Clover | "Daisy Cutter" | single | If we accept the tenuous moral imperative to reduce disparities of power, |
| 13 | Forever Starts Today | "World's Apart" | single | then the amateurization of everything is a good, |
| 14 | bülow | "Mona’s Dad" | Booty Call 5 | albeit one that ought to be accompanied by the social infrastructure to allow amateurization |
| 15 | The Midnight | "Change Your Heart or Die" | single | without economic repercussions. |
| 16 | eLxAr | "With You" | single | Stardom is an oligarchic dysfunction. |
| 17 | CANDY GO!GO! | "Jealous Tomorrow" | IN THE GAME/Brave Venus 3 | I know hardly anything about most of these idol groups, |
| 18 | 富田美憂 | "OveR" | single | but they look to me like they're having fun, |
| 19 | SennaRin | "BEEP" | Dignified | anticipating gleeful I-was-in-an-idol-group-once nostalgia |
| 20 | ASP | "SPiT OUT" | BOLLOCKS 2 | more than micropositioning themselves for careers. |
| 21 | Utsu-P | "ゲテモノ (feat. 初音ミク)" | single | Maybe this is a more-inevitable humility if you realize you're already competing with abstractions, |
| 22 | TrySail | "はなれない距離" | single | and thus necessarily represent abstractions yourself. |
| 23 | BiSH | "SAKURA" | ごめんね 2 | Playfulness is not exactly unserious, |
| 24 | Otoboke Beaver | "YAKITORI" | Super Champon 5 | but it requires you to peel apart the thin layers of seriousness and entitlement |
| 25 | LONGMAN | "ライラ" | single | if you want to wrap yourself in only one of them. |
| 26 | May'n | "Ao no Kodo" | single | Joy is not a genetic aberration |
| 27 | Stomp Talk Modstone | "Vital" | MEW | we have to assiduously seek out |
| 28 | Kaneyorimasaru | "Kankei no Nai Hito" | single | among gray throngs. |
| 29 | DAREMO SHIRANAI | "Ye-Yo" | single | Assigning economic value to the capacity for inspiration |
| 30 | 花冷え。 | "LOVE乱舞" | single | is a self-defeating quantification of the qualitative, |
| 31 | ZERO[Hz] | "N0.name" | ZODIAC | and dull reification of the transcendently mysterious. |
| 32 | WANIMA | "眩光" | あの日、あの場所/眩光 2 | Allowing the logistics of poetry |
| 33 | saji | "灯日" | single | to devolve into arguments over the number of poets |
| 34 | SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] | "OUTSIDERS" | single | who can make a living from their words |
| 35 | amazarashi | "ロストボーイズ" | 七号線ロストボーイズ | elides all the human definitions of words like "living", |
| 36 | BUMP OF CHICKEN | "クロノスタシス" | single | and stipulates illusory zero-sum oppositions |
| 37 | Novelbright | "愛とか恋とか" | single | that always benefit the narcissistic anti-gleaners |
| 38 | Lucky Duckes | "¡Que comience el juego!" | single | who demand the right instead of finding uses for the left. |
| 39 | Carolina Durante | "Salvaje Pasión" | single | We are justified in wanting to be modern girls, |
| 40 | Slime | "Heute Nicht" | single | because all of this was worse before. |
| 41 | Марний | "Лелеки" | single | If modernity is an era, |
| 42 | Night Sins | "Kill Like I Do" | Kill Like I Do +1 | rather than a dissatisfaction, |
| 43 | Mother of Millions | "No Light, No Light" | single | we haven't reached it yet. |
| 44 | Valleyheart | "The Numbers" | single | The air does that thing where it brushes against the sides of your throat as it goes, |
| 45 | Concrete Castles | "Sting" | single | and these headphones fight noise with anti-noise, |
| 46 | Temperance | "Set Yourself Free - Bonus Track" | Diamanti | and sometimes you wake up and find that your last favorite album is one song longer than you remember. |
| 47 | Brightstorm | "To Follow My Heart" | single | Memory is not an archive, |
| 48 | Eye of Melian | "Everstrong" | Everstrong +3 | it's a demonstration of our ability to convert joy into an energy, |
| 49 | Withering Season | "Dreams of Sorrow" | single | but only after it makes us want to. |
| 50 | The Big Deal | "Top Heaven" | single | You can tell if you're playing or working |
| 51 | DeVicious | "A Special Mind" | Black Heart | by whether you're hoping you get to keep doing it |
| 52 | Aevum | "Lullaby" | Glitch | or counting the hours until merciful sleep. |
| 53 | Semblant | "Bloodred Monarch (Legacy of Blood, Pt. VII)" | Vermilion Eclipse | We thought we had legacies of blood. |
| 54 | Visions of Atlantis | "Melancholy Angel" | Melancholy Angel +1 | The blood knew it was a moving and tragic compromise |
| 55 | Lodestar | "Creeping In My Soul" | single | between irreproducible nucleic acid and irreducible air. |
| 56 | Darkher | "Immortals" | The Buried Storm | It's not that we live forever, |
| 57 | Alunah | "Over The Hills" | Strange Machine | it's that the substances that make our lives different |
| 58 | Boris | "Funnel of Love" | single | from our deaths are not consumed by living |
| 59 | Thou | "Night" | single | but produced by it. |
| 60 | A Pregnant Light | "Jinx!" | Jinx! / Purple Lips 2 | The drums do that thing where they smash into a wall that only they can see |
| 61 | Vansind | "Asgaards Kald" | single | until everybody can hear it |
| 62 | Schandmaul | "Königsgarde" | Königsgarde +1 | crack. |
| 63 | Reliquiae | "Feuertanz - Streichquartett Version" | single | All these instruments are made of wires, |
| 64 | Månegarm | "Adils fall" | Ynglingaättens Öde | these hands of vessels. |
| 65 | Djevelkult | "I Kuldens Vold" | single | The gray throngs are us, too. |
| 66 | Exocrine | "The Hybrid Suns" | single | It's all us, until we reach the next inhabited star |
| 67 | Demonic Resurrection | "The Mask" | single | in search of true others to blame, |
| 68 | Crematory | "Break Down the Walls" | Break Down the Walls +1 | only to find that reaching them makes us into them. |
| 69 | Zero Hour | "Agenda 21" | single | We go to find ourselves, |
| 70 | Shaman | "Don't Let It Rain" | Rescue | and then, hilariously, are surprised when we succeed. |
| 71 | Nestor | "Signed in Blood" | single | We are not paid to listen, |
| 72 | Spheric Universe Experience | "Where We Belong" | single | which in itself ought to be enough to give away the self-serving expedience of economy: |
| 73 | Thessa | "Free Fall" | single | From each according to their need, |
| 74 | Moon Tooth | "Alpha Howl" | Alpha Howl +3 | to each according to their unaccountability. |
| 75 | YYNOT | "Wire and Wood" | single | Sometimes we lose our voices, and play instrumentals to stall for time; |
| 76 | Rivilin | "Burning Alive" | single | sometimes we are lost but for words. |
| 77 | Trace Amount | "Anti Body Language" | Anti Body Language | The noise-gates do that thing where they open to allow us into a cultivated chaos |
| 78 | Scarlxrd | "I Lxve Yxu/I Hate Yxu." | Atv2. Act I: Genesis. 3 | that we know will consume us as we traverse it. |
| 79 | Shogun | "Snares" | single | Dancehall is a virus that reaches the towns near the airports first. |
| 80 | Wstdyth | "Youll B Alright" | single | You will only be as alright as you deserve. |
| 81 | boyband | "STOP IT!" | single | History does that thing where it shatters into truths, |
| 82 | xo_willow archive | "cop grave" | single | and you can hide the one in your hand |
| 83 | The Chemical Mind | "IN HEAVEN I WILL HAVE A NEW BODY" | GLOSSOLALIA | only by closing your fingers on its cutting edges. |
| 84 | death's dynamic shroud | "Neon Memories" | single | Nostalgia is what you get when you replace the rushing blood with glittering lights, |
| 85 | Courtney Swain | "Camenti" | single | or imagine that this is what the lights accomplish |
| 86 | Osheyack | "Thrall" | single | as the blood learns which movements produce which kinds of sparkle. |
| 87 | Batu | "Convergence" | single | Blood and light diverge in planned arcs that lead back to each other, |
| 88 | The Chemical Mind | "THEOPHANY" | GLOSSOLALIA | to you, to a moment. |
| 89 | Ronski Speed | "Mendocino - Extended Mix" | Mendocino 2 | The clock does that thing where it remembers that time itself is a rhythm, |
| 90 | 8-Bit Arcade | "Kaiserion (8-Bit Ghost Emulation)" | By Request, Vol. 171 | and I feel like we are building something to replace this empire, just barely soon enough, or nearly. |