| 1 | Dylan | "Every Heart But Mine" | single | This is how you write a pop song. |
| 2 | Loviet | "Some Kind Of Drug" | The Nighttime Is All In The Timing 5 | I don't mean to imply that this is the only way to write a pop song, |
| 3 | BLÜ EYES | "HOW DARE YOU" | single | or maybe I do, in the same way that I genuinely feel, halfway through an even marginally decent burrito, |
| 4 | lozeak | "Used To You" | single | like if there were nothing else to eat ever, I could still feel joy. |
| 5 | Beth Crowley | "Cold-Blooded" | Cold-Blooded +1 | You probably kind of have to feel this way about pop songs, |
| 6 | Wednesday | "Bath County" | Bath County +2 | or about songs, |
| 7 | Shit Present | "Voice in Your Head" | Voice in Your Head +1 | to keep breathing, because there have been a few -- |
| 8 | SOPHIE COLETTE | "Don't Worry" | single | songs, breaths -- |
| 9 | CHVRCHES | "Over" | single | and if we insisted on the next one discovering unprecedented air, |
| 10 | The Midnight | "Land Locked Heart (from Road 96: Mile 0)" | single | we'd be a scattering of self-righteously inert |
| 11 | Kirin J Callinan | "Young Drunk Driver" | single | bodies. |
| 12 | Letting Up Despite Great Faults | "Vanity/Losing" | single | Take a fifth and follow it into the sky, |
| 13 | Concrete Castles | "Running from the Daylight" | single | and remind yourself that you're still alive. |
| 14 | Meet Me @ The Altar | "Kool" | Kool +1 | Not every one of these songs invokes massed choirs, |
| 15 | whenyoung | "Rubiks Cube" | single | literally, |
| 16 | Android-18 | "Sinungaling" | single | but of course put them together and they are the massed choir of all of us |
| 17 | Aiyana | "Tapos Na Tayo" | single | spread out sideways over time like thrown dice, |
| 18 | Samuraï | "Tiro Al Aire" | single | like a dumptruck of dice poured around our feet |
| 19 | Ainoa Buitrago | "TE QUIERO" | TE QUIERO +1 | so that we can reach anywhere and find our luckiest number. |
| 20 | Belén Aguilera | "GALGO" | single | Chaos in miniature is stochastic lottery injustice: |
| 21 | Tasché | "Prentjies" | single | one die, one roll, a million losing numbers. |
| 22 | Susanne Sundfør | "alyosha" | alyosha +1 | Chaos as a life-force is infinite: |
| 23 | MOIRA | "A Mountain" | single | all the numbers winners, |
| 24 | TeZATalks | "BREAKSHIT" | single | and you can run your hands through them, |
| 25 | Cassyette | "BOOM" | single | and thus discover that you don't need to win. |
| 26 | Ada Rook | "Live it Down" | Flatline/Live it Down 2 | The dice and their numbers do not compete with each other |
| 27 | saoirse dream | "catherine never broke again" | single | any more than the breaths or the songs. |
| 28 | Madge | "rabits" | single | Hyperpop isn't antipopthetical or corrective, |
| 29 | daine | "writhe" | shapeless | it's varietal and digicelebratory, |
| 30 | umru | "GROUNDBREAKER" | single | more ways of saying this is how you be audibly ecstatic |
| 31 | Petal Supply | "If You Want To" | single | and progressively uncritical |
| 32 | RYL0 | "Only 1 Trying" | single | and sinuously exhortational. |
| 33 | Mandaworld | "U CANT STOP ME NOW" | single | We cannot be stopped, |
| 34 | Fire-Toolz | "I Couldn't Have Been BoRn At ThE wRoNg TiMe Because I Was Never Even Born LOL!" | single | but this is only another way of realizing that we can't stop ourselves, |
| 35 | Nosgov | "a friend" | single | and there's no way for universal helpless kinetic effusion |
| 36 | Sepha. | "to breed" | single | to resolve into any semblance of void. |
| 37 | boyband | "DETHKLOK!!" | single | Anger is an energy, methodical refusal is an energy; |
| 38 | Ryan Oakes | "RUINED" | single | even rudimentary wordplay is play in exactly the way |
| 39 | snow ellet | "Whiskey and Soda Pop" | Whiskey and Soda Pop +2 | that language models are subsistent. Bad emotions, good fingers, |
| 40 | Becko | "OPEN YOUR EYES" | OPEN YOUR EYES | nervous potential: |
| 41 | Bearwear | "Firefly" | sad but dancing, happy but crying 3 | we don't score our dreams, |
| 42 | 164 | "phoenix (from Raison d'être)" | single | we wake up and try to remember to overlay the liminal spaces we imagined |
| 43 | Amber’s | "ジェロニモ" | buddy 4 | on the responsibilities we have accumulated. |
| 44 | illiomote | "violet" | single | We inscribe filigree along the margins of our forms |
| 45 | poor man's rose | "杞憂に終わる" | single | as a refusal to ever fully submit. |
| 46 | kinoue64 | "Depression before class" | I want only you to listen to it | Headphones are a solipsistic formalism |
| 47 | sly cat girl | "Prayer" | 3rd DEMO 3 | that can do nothing but amplify the obdurately existing world. |
| 48 | ReoNa | "HUMAN" | single | Even the mitigation of "noise" is an act of making the silence louder |
| 49 | MindaRyn | "Sword of my soul" | Way to go 3 | in the particular silhouettes |
| 50 | RAY | "Reading Diary" | single | of the avatars of our idols. |
| 51 | BAND-MAID | "Memorable" | single | "Chorus" is just our word for the moments |
| 52 | BABY-CRAYON~1361~ | "Song of hope" | single | when we feel like a song has taken us somewhere |
| 53 | BiSH | "Bye-Bye Show" | single | and the people who were already there are happy to see us, |
| 54 | PRSMIN | "Senshu Sensei" | single | ready to explain their own ruefully geeky distinctions between their pastries and ours, |
| 55 | =LOVE | "Junkies" | この空がトリガー(Special Edition) | radiantly confident that we will quickly learn to care |
| 56 | KRD8 | "unlimited" | single | because of course they did. |
| 57 | LOVEBITES | "We Are The Resurrection" | JUDGEMENT DAY | I asked ChatGPT to describe this LOVEBITES song, |
| 58 | BABYMETAL | "Light and Darkness" | Light and Darkness +3 | which of course it doesn't know about because it didn't exist |
| 59 | ILLUMISHADE | "Hymn" | Hymn +1 | when ChatGPT's nihilistic world ended, |
| 60 | Soulspell | "Dead Silence" | single | and it did so with magnificently banal obliviousness, |
| 61 | Xeria | "Una Lágrima Más" | single | enthusing over musical features it plausibly could have had |
| 62 | Leah | "Before This War Is Over" | single | but doesn't, |
| 63 | Floor Jansen | "Daydream" | Daydream +2 | and calling out the anthemic repetition of the song's title in its chorus, |
| 64 | Angel Wolf-Black | "Energize Me" | single | which is not a thing. |
| 65 | Burning Witches | "The Dark Tower" | single | The failure to avoid making up clichéd bullshit is a mordant indictment of artificial "intelligence", |
| 66 | Enemy of Reality | "Downfall" | Where Truth May Lie | but an interpretive ballet of testimony |
| 67 | Against Myself | "Providence" | single | to how immanently music is embedded in our collective mimesis. |
| 68 | Transworld Identity | "Play & Pretend" | single | We built a monster we shouldn't have built, |
| 69 | Exilia | "Supernova" | single | and maybe don't exactly know how to take apart again, |
| 70 | Manigance | "Forgotten Survivor" | The Shadows Ball | but it sometimes looks fairly hot for a few moments while it's dancing, |
| 71 | Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall | "Far from Home" | single | because so do we and we don't know how to make a world where things don't. |
| 72 | Excalion | "Resolution" | single | This is why deliberate dystopia is inevitably plaintive and self-defeating: |
| 73 | Majesty | "Back To Attack" | single | you can't warn people against monstrosity without depicting monsters monstrously, |
| 74 | Firewind | "Destiny Is Calling" | single | but nobody needs to be warned against monsters |
| 75 | Redemption | "Remember the Dawn" | Remember the Dawn +2 | emerging out of tranquil darkness into the edges of our gruesomely flicking firelight. |
| 76 | Time Primer | "Aligning Hearts" | Artefact | What we need to be warned against, |
| 77 | Coridian | "Coexist" | single | in constantly novel ways so that we pay attention, |
| 78 | E-An-Na | "Fântânile de la Capătul Lumii" | single | is gradually assuming those monsters' internal structure and moral intent ourselves |
| 79 | Heidevolk | "Raidho" | Wederkeer | while we sit too-comfortably too close to that fire. |
| 80 | Subway To Sally | "Ihr kriegt uns nie" | Ihr kriegt uns nie +2 | Part of the function of cities is to remind us, daily, |
| 81 | Tanzwut | "Labyrinth" | Silberne Hochzeit | that we are not a single nobly savage tribe safely insulated from heterogenous complexity |
| 82 | Diary Of Dreams | "Gedeih & Verderb" | Melancholin | by our own lineal simplicity. |
| 83 | VNV Nation | "Before the Rain" | single | Part of the power of music is that it shows us |
| 84 | Palm Ghosts | "Epitaph" | Cold Spells | how individual strands of insularity, |
| 85 | Lamori | "Dark Messiah" | single | woven together with sufficiently high thread-count, |
| 86 | Bisa | "Devil's Eyes" | single | can make bright cloth with which any of our traditional raiments can be improved. |
| 87 | Dead Crown | "Neiges éternelles" | midgard 5 | Everything we try to say |
| 88 | Insomnium | "1696" | Anno 1696 | always risked trivial solubility in the imagined primordial, |
| 89 | Mors Subita | "Regenerate" | Regenerate +1 | no matter how startling it is to see that nominal ooze tackily reified. |
| 90 | Kalmah | "Haunted by Guilt" | single | Shelley realized we would make our successors, |
| 91 | Downfall Of Gaia | "Existence of Awe" | single | ineptly at first, |
| 92 | Autrest | "December Dusk" | Follow the Cold Path | and Orwell realized we would become anonymous in omnisurveillance |
| 93 | Rheia | "Dirt-Born" | single | before we became indelible in omniscience, |
| 94 | Botanist | "Angel's Trumpet" | single | but neither were able to situate these inevitabilities within redemption. |
| 95 | Mustan Kuun Lapset | "Muistoa kunnioittaen" | single | This is how you write a fight song -- |
| 96 | Vaasa Palaa | "pvv se kovempvv" | single | this way or the thousand other thronged ways |
| 97 | yuragi | "Here I Stand" | single | rising over a ridge in gleaming helmets |
| 98 | amazarashi | "海洋生命" | アンチノミー 3 | and rays of backlit steam |
| 99 | Quruli | "Sun of Love" | single | and fabulous shoes woefully and lovably unsuited to this mud. |
| 100 | アメノイロ。 | "mahiru no kuuhaku" | single | Part of the function of cities is to give us somewhere we can gather |
| 101 | MAN WITH A MISSION | "Fantasista" | single | in clothes sewn to be anything other than armor, |
| 102 | Straightener | "冬ノ道ノセイ" | single | and taking off armor is, eventually, |
| 103 | The Otals | "あなたはショパン" | single | how our more-peaceful compositions are revealed. |
| 104 | ACIDMAN | "Fever" | single | The best storm stories tell us mostly about our own body heat, |
| 105 | Good Grief | "Feather" | Feather +1 | and the relentlessly pounding blood that generates it, |
| 106 | Reno & Rome | "Live Without You" | single | and the cold that materializes in the distances between us. |
| 107 | No Space To Grow | "Sad Boi Abunda" | single | Why can I always tell the Pinoy songs by the crash cymbals and the guitar sound, |
| 108 | Maryzark | "Langit" | single | even as I can tell that they grew up on lithium and misery like the rest of us? |
| 109 | DLD | "Almas Rotas" | single | Emotional openness is not a dialectic. |
| 110 | Joven Dolores | "Solo Repetir" | Querido Impulso | You do not attend in order to find out when you are wrong, |
| 111 | Diagnóstico Binario | "El presente" | single | you listen to be present in shared space. |
| 112 | Finde Fantasma | "En la mierda" | single | It's not always clean. |
| 113 | La Paloma | "Sigo aquí" | Todavía no | That can't stop us. |
| 114 | Monteperdido | "NO ESTOY BIEN" | single | The mud gets worse, at first, |
| 115 | Wakame | "Plan B" | single | but always eventually succumbs to our stubbornness. |
| 116 | EXISTENT | "Irgendwas" | Irgendwas +3 | Witness these roads that lead both to and from the sea. |
| 117 | Grenzenlos | "AntiXtrem" | AntiXtrem +1 | This is how you write a punk song. It's not hard. |
| 118 | KURT | "Qué Suerte" | single | Or, to say that the other way, we are a fortunate evolutionary state |
| 119 | The Sun | "Ostinato e controcorrente" | single | in the ascendancy from labored crawling |
| 120 | Brendan Peyper | "Nee of Ja" | single | to glib and gleeful dancing. |
| 121 | Phathizwe Ntuli | "Idanasoli" | single | This is how you write whatever kind of maskandi song this is. |
| 122 | Imithente | "Wanqaba uZulu" | single | I keep pestering the South African playlist curators at work to explain the rules of this to me. |
| 123 | A'w DJ Mara | "Thixo Baba" | single | Why are the singers always sitting on stools in the cover pictures, except not this week? |
| 124 | Killorbeezbeatz | "Cry Or Laugh" | single | Where does wedding music end and folk music begin? |
| 125 | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | "Nobody Tells You When You’re Young" | Nobody Tells You When You're Young 6 | They send me playlists full of songs I already know nothing about, and then vanish again with what I imagine must be an unseen grin. |
| 126 | Tenille Townes | "The Thing That Wrecks You" | single | I don't think they're going to explain Limpopo to me, and maybe I'd do the same if you asked me to explain Alberta |
| 127 | Erland Cooper | "Movement 5 - Pt. 2" | Movement 5 - Pt. 2 +1 | or Skye |
| 128 | Brian Eno | "Making gardens out of silence in the uncanny valley" | single | or the differences between ambience and background, |
| 129 | Faten Kanaan | "Fin août, début septembre" | Afterpoem | or how to believe in technology but only as expression of both humanity and humility. |
| 130 | Alex Paxton | "Love Kittens" | single | We shouldn't really have to explain humanity and humility separately, |
| 131 | Anna Meredith | "Moonmoons" | single | any more than our disquisitions on moonlight can constitute a sealed subfield of cosmology. |
| 132 | Susanne Sundfør | "leikara ljóð" | alyosha 2 | The songs end and begin. They all get their waveforms from somewhere. |
| 133 | Emma Hewitt | "WARRIOR - Extended Mix" | WARRIOR 4 | They are forged in elemental grace, only to get expediently alloyed. |
| 134 | Rain Paris | "Flowers" | single | You know you've written a real song if somebody else can sing it, |
| 135 | The Animal In Me | "Flowers" | single | but that's all the songs: |
| 136 | Kontrollverlust | "Torn - Pop-Punk Version" | Torn 3 | the one you burned, the one you traded away, the one you sentimentally shredded; the new one you make of what's left. |