| 1 | Gameboi | "Disappear" | single | If you don't know what that knob does, you have two obvious choices: |
| 2 | Rave The Reqviem | "Ofelia" | Ofelia +1 | don't touch it until you find out, |
| 3 | Theicon | "Nonexistent" | single | or turn it up. |
| 4 | REXORIA | "Set Me on Fire" | single | Obvious choices are rarely the only choices, of course, |
| 5 | Delain | "Beneath (Feat. Paolo Ribaldini)" | Beneath 2 | and I have loved songs that found others: |
| 6 | Beyond The Black | "Dancing In The Dark" | Dancing In The Dark +3 | tear the wires out of the back so the knob is useless; |
| 7 | Asylum Pyre | "Virtual Guns" | single | pull it off with your teeth; |
| 8 | Flowerleaf | "Fireflies" | Fireflies +2 | turn all the knobs to their zeros and see what is left; |
| 9 | Deathless Legacy | "Ora Pro Nobis" | single | find the person who invented that knob and let them show you why it's there; |
| 10 | Upon These Scars | "Manifestation" | single | unplug yourself from everything that knob is connected to |
| 11 | Brothers of Metal | "Berserkir" | Berserkir +1 | and start over. |
| 12 | Wig Wam | "Out of the Dark" | single | But all joyful solutions to the unknown |
| 13 | Krilloan | "Emperor Rising" | single | regard ignorance with bemused eagerness. |
| 14 | Obituary | "Dying of Everything" | Dying of Everything +1 | They do not begin with anonymous RFCs |
| 15 | Atrocity | "Faces From Beyond" | Faces From Beyond +2 | pasted into email bodies in awkward and inexplicable Caslon. |
| 16 | Metallica | "Lux Æterna" | single | They do not seek to use this knob to get 1.4% more of anything unprecious. |
| 17 | Katatonia | "Austerity" | Austerity +1 | They do not yearn to itemize grievances |
| 18 | Jours Pâles | "Tensions" | Tensions | or define themselves in indignant opposition to the inevitable. |
| 19 | Imha Tarikat | "Touch Of Mercy" | Hearts Unchained - At War With A Passionless World | They do not quietly accede. |
| 20 | Revolution Saints | "Eagle Flight" | single | So not only do I usually prefer the songs made by the curious and exuberant, |
| 21 | LIV MOON | "Never..." | single | but I consider it part of my responsibility as a listener to contribute to the curiosity and exuberance by how I hear. |
| 22 | Little Lilith | "Lullaby" | single | My most enduring obsessions always sound novel to me no matter how reverently they situate themselves in precedent. |
| 23 | KAQRIYOTERROR | "Reaper feeder" | Reaper feeder +1 | Formulae for creative escape are no more inherently ridiculous than rail lines that lead out of the city, |
| 24 | UP UP GIRLS kakko KARI | "キラキラミライ - 2022ver." | キラキラミライ 2 | or becoming yourself in purchased clothing, |
| 25 | KISIDA KYODAN & THE AKEBOSI ROCKETS | "TIME FLIES." | 転生したら剣でした 5 | or loving something we share. |
| 26 | SHINGEKI | "EGO PARADISE" | single | All antithetical regimes fear these distributed resonances |
| 27 | レッスントゥミー | "今、咲け" | single | beyond their control, |
| 28 | 結束バンド | "なにが悪い" | single | but resort to bureaucracies of suppression |
| 29 | 和氣あず未 | "君と雷鳴の道を" | STAY BEAUTIFUL STAY BEAUTIFUL | more often out of self-distrust |
| 30 | 渕上 舞 | "一期百会" | 一期百会 Meets 40mP 2 | than certainty. |
| 31 | Maki Ohguro | "君に届け feat, doa, 川島だりあ" | single | Idol rock, metal, disco, hyperpop: |
| 32 | Hakubi | "Sanjunitosei no Yoru" | single | all of these are systems of resistance, |
| 33 | POOLS | "breaking" | single | first to inertia |
| 34 | Mega Shinnosuke | "Sarabauchuu, Kanatamirai" | single | and only incidentally to its beneficiaries, |
| 35 | AprilBlue | "Land of Words" | single | in search of media that amplify carelessness |
| 36 | GRANRODEO | "ゼロステップ (feat. 小野賢章)" | single | in order to reveal its detail. |
| 37 | TK from Ling tosite sigure | "first death" | single | The imitative simulation of joy is thus nihilistic, |
| 38 | XAAXAA | "Tsukuyomi" | Tsukuyomi +2 | detached from the production of human freedom. |
| 39 | -真天地開闢集団-ジグザグ | "ぽんぽこたぬき合戦" | 無料配布盤 2 | When done for profit, this betrays the recipients of production |
| 40 | Fraxriel | "Damnation" | single | more than the nominal owners of its means, |
| 41 | poptropicaslutz! | "catastrophe" | single | and so highlights their disenfranchisement. |
| 42 | Jay Kim | "parachute" | single | When done for the satisfaction of accomplishment, |
| 43 | snow ellet | "Playing Dead" | single | it mistakes technology for a class of objects rather than a category of inspirations. |
| 44 | Lil Xtra | "Carried Away" | single | A generative AI to "make" art |
| 45 | GARZI | "SEE ME NOW" | Careful What You Wish For 6 | is the immediate and inevitable precursor to a corresponding artifice to consume it: |
| 46 | Carlie Hanson | "Pretender" | single | the optional attachment to your bread machine |
| 47 | Bronnie | "Back and Forth" | single | that eats the bread for you |
| 48 | White Lung | "Bird" | Premonition | at its moment of perfect useless freshness. |
| 49 | Loviet | "Star Treatment" | single | It isn't that we don't need more art, |
| 50 | Cyan Kicks | "Someone Like You" | Someone Like You +3 | it's that "art" is not a surface, |
| 51 | As December Falls | "Home" | single | it is a plane of perceptions that facilitates connection through it. |
| 52 | Against The Current | "blindfolded" | single | All these frequencies already exist. |
| 53 | Sŵnami | "Anghyfarwydd Haul" | Sŵnamii | Itemizing them is not a song. |
| 54 | Cala Vento | "Equilibrio" | Equilibrio / Casa Linda 2 | Itemizing them in a canonically melodic order is still not a song. |
| 55 | Ministri | "Da questo momento in poi" | single | Itemizing them in the style of Umberto Eco as a young boy suffering from poison ivy |
| 56 | Aitana | "Quiero" | La Última | is not reifying a desire, |
| 57 | India Martinez | "NUESTRO MUNDO" | Nuestro Mundo | it is misassigning theocracy to botany. |
| 58 | Tenille Arts | "Motel On the Moon" | single | Yes, sure, maybe the next language model could choose 35% more compelling apposites, |
| 59 | Kususa | "Ndineculo" | Ubomi 4 | superficially interchangeable with Tenille Arts sending loneliness into space on a rocket fueled by ruefully atavistic tradition |
| 60 | Igeza LakwaMgube | "Isimo" | I Soft Life | by specifying that it's a motel on a rock without roads, |
| 61 | Ithwasa Lekhansela | "Kuzokhala Abadlwane" | Zehla | but meta-algorithms have no culture to embrace with defiant ambivalence. |
| 62 | Dawn Treader | "The World Is Our ___" | Solace // Grief 2 | It costs the circuitry nothing to doubt itself, |
| 63 | Harakiri for the Sky | "Panoptycon" | Panoptycon +2 | which is to say not just that it cannot purchase self-awareness, |
| 64 | Dwell in Doom | "The Witch in Me" | Songs from the Deadland | but that it cannot even negotiate in that currency. |
| 65 | Mono Inc. | "At the End of the Rainbow" | At the End of the Rainbow 5 | Asking whether deep learning models can be sentient |
| 66 | Life On Venus | "Speak to the Moon" | Homewards | is the same kind of amoral category error that failed to recognize slavery as obviously inhuman, |
| 67 | Krvna | "Tithonus I" | Long Forgotten Relic | the same kind that seeks mortal guidance from an unquestionable immortal |
| 68 | Lisieux | "Révolution" | Abide! | that can definitionally be only one of relevant or real, |
| 69 | Udånde | "I’m Not a Pessimist, I’m a Realist" | Slow Death - A Celebration of Self-Hatred | the same kind that imagines the knob was put there by a committee of petty Norns, |
| 70 | Sullen | "Headspace" | Nodus Tollens - Act 2: Ascension | rather than a product designer with a parts catalog and a manufacturing deadline. |
| 71 | Hourglass | "Void Within" | single | Maybe when you turn it up, it turns three-minute glitchpop songs about our tenuous sense of self |
| 72 | Riverside | "Self-Aware - Single Edit" | single | into five- or twenty-five-minute prog-metal essays about our tenuous sense of self. |
| 73 | Tnne | "No Man's Land" | single | Maybe the knob lets in evil, |
| 74 | Astral Experience | "Abismo" | Esclavos del Tiempo - Clepsidra, Pt. 1 4 | maybe it was put there in anticipatory evil, |
| 75 | E-An-Na | "Fagure Negru" | single | maybe it does nothing to mitigate a machine that transmits evil |
| 76 | Filip Lackovic | "Warbringer" | single | no matter what its intent. |
| 77 | forfedre | "The World Tree" | single | My most debilitating fears always end up sounding miserably tragic to me when I try to imagine |
| 78 | Budapest Symphony Orchestra | "Anti-Hero" | single | what would beat a person into the requisite senselessness from which none of the innumerable better extrications are evident. |
| 79 | Alex Melton | "Anti-Hero" | Happy Birthday 6 | We have this thing where we get more instrumental but just not more vocal. |
| 80 | The Talbott Brothers | "Anti-Hero - Cover" | single | All the lessons we've forgotten stand there in the studio, |
| 81 | The Mayries | "Anti-Hero" | single | waiting to sing harmony in a song for which we have not yet picked words. |
| 82 | Samantha Stone | "Iris - Cover" | Mess (Deluxe) 3 | You cannot give up forever, cannot give it as a gift unless you are willing to live forever, too. |
| 83 | COMETRON | "From Paris To Berlin" | single | And I mean live, here among us in our cities and the spaces they define between them, |
| 84 | The Present Moment | "She Is Mine" | single | forever now. |
| 85 | Feuerschwanz | "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! +1 | It's not that there's no one to hear your prayers, |
| 86 | Amberian Dawn | "Super Trouper" | Super Trouper +2 | it's that we are all here, somewhere, in a crowd that is only ever us. Do you want to be heard, to hear? Maybe now you know what that knob must do. |