| 1 | Amberian Dawn | "SOS" | single | I usually describe Amberian Dawn as ABBA-in-metal, so another Amberian Dawn ABBA cover feels like a little personal gift. Until I realize that it's the advance single for a full album of Amberian Dawn ABBA covers, at which point I become dangerously suspicious about solipsism again. |
| 2 | Ad Infinitum | "Upside Down" | single | This is the reward for curiosity, though: |
| 3 | Rave The Reqviem | "God, Demon, Machine" | single | the more you learn to love, the more the universe seems conceived for your joy, |
| 4 | Amaranthe | "Find Life" | single | and if it doesn't feel like this to you yet, it's probably not because the universe has work to do. |
| 5 | Beyond The Black | "Winter Is Coming" | Winter Is Coming +2 | Few of the enemies we hold still to imagine are as powerful as inertia, |
| 6 | Elyose | "Retour au réel" | single | or as cheerfully unconcerned with our movements. |
| 7 | IKINÄ | "Hattara" | single | Move, and you change the air you displace. |
| 8 | VUKOVI | "XX" | NULA | Get up and go out into the world, |
| 9 | WILLOW | "Falling Endlessly" | <COPINGMECHANISM> | and it will part to reveal gleaming paths before your feet, |
| 10 | Deathless Legacy | "Moonless Night" | single | or it won't, because of course it doesn't |
| 11 | Charlotte Wessels | "The Phantom Touch" | Tales from Six Feet Under Vol. II | until you take the gleaming steps that make paths. |
| 12 | Sede Vacante | "Conium" | single | If you hate self-actualizing circularity, you should have chosen a squarer planet. |
| 13 | Seas on the Moon | "The Waiting" | single | The Amberian Dawn ABBA-covers album is called Take a Chance, but the published track-listing claims it doesn't include a cover of "Take a Chance on Me". |
| 14 | Sleeping Romance | "Resemblance of Light" | We All Are Shadows | We name things according to our intentions, |
| 15 | Debler Eternia | "Afrodissia" | single | and they become historiographies of how we have intended. |
| 16 | NUMENTO | "The Vile Entity" | single | We walk over dry grass in flaming boots. |
| 17 | Dorothy Polonium | "Goat" | single | Maybe "gleaming" is not quite the right word for the resulting paths, |
| 18 | Circus of Fools | "Orgy of Indulgence" | single | or "paths" an aspirational way to describe scars. |
| 19 | LiSA | "土曜日のわたしたちは" | single | We learn to collide with all our strength |
| 20 | KISIDA KYODAN & THE AKEBOSI ROCKETS | "転生したら剣でした" | TVアニメ「転生したら剣でした」オープニングテーマ「転生したら剣でした」 3 | by imagining ourselves reincarnated as swords |
| 21 | DECO*27 | "Journey" | Journey +1 | in heroically unarmored hands. |
| 22 | LEIWAN | "Aburakatabura" | single | All these frissons of metal and other elements are invitational alchemistries |
| 23 | PRSMIN | "eve" | single | that recruit us as boundary technicians |
| 24 | NANO | "CATASTROPHE" | single | and then miniaturize us and a variable number of dogs and cats |
| 25 | TOKYO TEFUTEFU | "ao" | Hyperphantasia | and send us into boundlessly fractal interiors |
| 26 | KRD8 | "Deep Impact" | single | to unmap what we slowly, gradually recognize as our own souls. |
| 27 | THE SIXTH LIE | "融雪 (English ver.)" | single | Cartoon versions of ourselves retain only our moral anatomy, |
| 28 | MADKID | "Change The World" | single | and thus the cartoon worlds in which we situate our cartoon selves enumerate the simplifications we think we require |
| 29 | アカネサス | "0927" | Yugure ni Utau 4 | in order to effortlessly become better selves, |
| 30 | tricot | "アクアリウム" | single | and those in turn show us where effort can be most flatly transformational. |
| 31 | milet | "Final Call" | single | These groping, narrow ways |
| 32 | Winnie | "alone again" | Boost 6 | lead us out of darkness |
| 33 | Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai | "だれかの心臓になれたなら feat.榊原ゆい" | single | by patiently leading us through searing radiance |
| 34 | NEMOPHILA | "Seize the Fate" | single | until we notice where we are, |
| 35 | Borealis | "My Fortress" | Illusions | where we have always been. |
| 36 | SpellBlast | "The Flannan Lighthouse" | single | We learn to lose ourselves |
| 37 | Aara | "Phthonos I" | Phthonos 2 | by triangulating wildly on a single point at a time. |
| 38 | The Antichrist Imperium | "The Sweetest Juice" | Volume III: Satan in His Original Glory | Bad ideas are usually good ideas worn down by earnest use. |
| 39 | Liturgy | "93" | As the Blood of God Bursts the Veins of Time 4 | Arguably this is literally what we mean by utility |
| 40 | Illyria | "Let Me Take You Somewhere Beautiful And We'll Never Want To Leave" | Take Me Somewhere Beautiful | as an antithesis to art: |
| 41 | A Pregnant Light | "The Master" | The Master B/W the Mail 2 | actions that abrade the joyful surfaces before the miserable ones. |
| 42 | Cloud Rat | "Imaging Order" | Threshold | Pragmatic dogma is entropy's favorite disguise, |
| 43 | Counterparts | "A Eulogy for Those Still Here" | A Eulogy for Those Still Here | a preacher invoking every color's divine right to converge upon gray, |
| 44 | Judicator | "Ursa Major" | single | and inviting us to look up at the gray gods they draw over the brightest points in the dark. |
| 45 | Maraton | "In Syzygy" | Unseen Color | Let their voices recede to resonance. |
| 46 | Threshold | "Complex" | Complex +2 | Let your eyes unfocus until you can look where they describe gates and eternity |
| 47 | Teramaze | "In the Ruins of Angels" | Flight of the Wounded | and see a sailboat that can take you away. |
| 48 | Parius | "Arecibo" | The Signal Heard Throughout Space | The deepest scars you find on your body are karsts for the most delicate sensors: |
| 49 | Queensrÿche | "Tormentum" | Digital Noise Alliance | speculative dystopia, |
| 50 | Alter Bridge | "This is War" | This Is War 4 | speculative capitulation, |
| 51 | Heavy Metal Perse | "Uusi Alkemia" | Jumalia Paossa | new alchemy, |
| 52 | Eolya | "Hóp" | Hávamál | old hopes never truthfully abandoned. |
| 53 | Hand of Kalliach | "Cinders - Acoustic Instrumental" | Meòraich 3 | The rewards for burning your assumptions |
| 54 | Dominic Gebhardt | "May Death Stay Silent" | single | are warmth and light and their merciful transience. |
| 55 | quannnic | "A Mind Of Her Own" | single | Tomorrow it will be cold or raining or desperate, |
| 56 | miraie | "last day with my girlfriend" | single | the end of something you thought you always wanted. |
| 57 | daine | "stay close" | single | Get up, anyway. It takes only one step out into the world to be the one who discovers |
| 58 | Brevin Kim | "THE PPL I'VE BEEN" | THE PPL I'VE BEEN +1 | that it's still there. |
| 59 | WHOKILLEDXIX | "MIGRAINE" | MIGRAINE +2 | The way we feel better when we aren't lonely is not a solution, |
| 60 | Sorry X | "TAROT" | single | but it's a better clue than the confident answers to imaginary questions. |
| 61 | Lil Xtra | "Drift" | single | Hold still, touching nothing, and you still change the air that touches you, |
| 62 | P A R A G O N | "Lighthouse" | single | the stray lights that pause, reaching you, before continuing on their quest to feel like signals. |
| 63 | Jutes | "Best Kept Secret" | Best Kept Secret +2 | Small errors made with grand ambivalent commitment |
| 64 | SayWeCanFly | "27" | single | beat the most carefully explained surrender. |
| 65 | NNAMDÏ | "Some Days" | Please Have A Seat | Artifice is not an excuse: |
| 66 | Autre Ne Veut | "Okay" | single | sidewalks become paths at least as willingly as forests, |
| 67 | Alvvays | "After The Earthquake" | Blue Rev | and broken sidewalks maybe more so. |
| 68 | WILLOW | "Perfectly Not Close To Me (ft. Yves Tumor)" | <COPINGMECHANISM> | The things we break open |
| 69 | chloe moriondo | "Popstar" | SUCKERPUNCH | leak stories about how we are composed. |
| 70 | Autumn Fires | "Chemical Burn" | single | We are, after all, compositional ephemera, |
| 71 | Korine | "Burn the World" | single | doomed to seek empathic consolation by trying to impose our ephemerality on anything that seems flutterier, |
| 72 | Karin Park | "Bending Albert's Law" | Private Collection | but redeemable, if not remediable, by proactive regret. |
| 73 | Major Parkinson | "The Room" | Valesa - Chapter I: Velvet Prison | Is this a panic attack? Are you the love of my life? |
| 74 | The Blackheart Orchestra | "The Warning" | Hotel Utopia | We helplessly fountain plaintive admissions of our functional perfection. |
| 75 | Sharon Van Etten | "Never Gonna Change" | single | Love and panic are words for the angular momentum we produce by circulation, |
| 76 | Mabe Fratti | "Algo Grandioso" | single | which is enough to explain why our best rules never perfect us, |
| 77 | Ibeyi | "Juice of Mandarins" | single | but that isn't their goal. |
| 78 | Elaine | "Fading Away" | single | Songs do not end in order to install silence. |
| 79 | Brutus | "What Have We Done" | What Have We Done +3 | We do not review our errors as curatorial preparation for their exhibition. |
| 80 | A.A. Williams | "Murmurs" | As The Moon Rests | We do not speak plainly or clearly, |
| 81 | The Blackheart Orchestra | "Casting Spells" | Hotel Utopia | but we hear with telescoping rapture. |
| 82 | Oliver Leith | "Last Days: Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare" | single | Our fates are operatic |
| 83 | The Lovecraft Sextet | "Miserere - Libera - Opus VI" | Miserere | even when our freedoms feel intolerable, |
| 84 | In The Woods... | "A Wonderful Crisis" | single | or especially then. |
| 85 | Bloody Hammers | "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" | single | Sleep, and the air runs along your skin, |
| 86 | Mono Inc. | "Heartbeat of the Dead" | Heartbeat of the Dead +2 | straining against the visceral temptation to wake you. |
| 87 | Hemesath | "Elysium" | So Schön | This moment, without you, could be delirious. |
| 88 | The Cult | "Vendetta X" | Under The Midnight Sun | Together, awake while others sleep, we could liberate the held. |
| 89 | Viva Suecia | "El Bien" | El Amor De La Clase Que Sea | Grab your bag of names, we've only just realized what half of them mean, |
| 90 | Maryland | "El Chico de Oro" | single | and all these strangers have come to stand in front of us and become real. |
| 91 | Comandante Twin | "Ser Valiente" | single | Our hopes are nostalgic |
| 92 | Elefantes | "En silencio" | TROZOS de PAPEL / COSAS RARAS | even when our actual memories feel voiceless. |
| 93 | Nena Daconte | "Al Son de una Guitarra" | single | Songs do not have ends, |
| 94 | Rigoberta Bandini | "La Emperatriz" | La Emperatriz | they have radii of detection, |
| 95 | Maija Vilkkumaa | "Pari pikku sääntöö" | 1973 | and our movements are choices of where we will stand: |
| 96 | NUPU | "Kauan eläköön" | Valheet, tupakka ja reivit | in a chapel of silence or at the precise movable location where the singer's voice reaches us from everywhere, |
| 97 | Conscious Route | "Code Red" | Deftly Golden | in places of birth or inheritance, |
| 98 | Origami Angel | "JUDGE" | DEPART 3 | in defiance or ardor. |
| 99 | Too Much Joy | "Fortune Telling's Easy" | Fortune Telling's Easy +2 | It's easy to predict the future if you stand at the edge of it, |
| 100 | Dan Mangan | "All Roads" | All Roads +3 | enumerating the paths you will not take, |
| 101 | Ásgeir | "Borderland" | Borderland +3 | as if you can stay at the center of anything |
| 102 | Dustin Tebbutt | "Quiet Moon, Wild Sea" | single | by pretending you have been there forever. |
| 103 | Elevation Worship | "Lo Que Veo (What I See)" | LEÓN | If you hold a gray flag high enough |
| 104 | Elevation Worship | "LEÃO (LION) (feat. Chris Brown & Thalles Roberto)" | LEÃO 2 | it will be swallowed mercifully by the sky. |
| 105 | The Blackheart Orchestra | "Raise Your Heart" | Hotel Utopia | It's not flags you need to lift up to claim this place for civilization, |
| 106 | Sellasouls | "EL DI4BLO ROJO AESHMA|||252|||ZUSIFER #ZOEY101666 #SHRYNE" | single | it's our fears, our demons, us. |
| 107 | Jessica Moss | "Opened Ending" | Galaxy Heart | None of the remaining tasks are yours, unshared. |
| 108 | Thisquietarmy x Away | "Zeta 0000 1101" | Machine Consciousness, Phase III | None of these noises are songs, or all of them are. |
| 109 | Occams Laser | "Prometheus" | Occult 91 | You will not be punished for hope, or wanting, or wondering. |
| 110 | LAU | "Shout" | single | One-track minds become choruses through involuntary juxtaposition, not because one of us shouts louder, but because none of us can. |