| 1 | Emma Hewitt | "CHILDREN" | Ghost of the Light | Her voice would be enough. |
| 2 | ReoNa | "地球が一枚の板だったら" | 地球が一枚の板だったら +1 | I have had many favorite bands, many favorite singers, and a few scattered personal crushes on singers. |
| 3 | MAD JAMIE | "Over the moon" | single | Those three sets have, thus far, not overlapped. |
| 4 | 二口魔菜 Futakuchi Mana | "Patto" | single | My favorite artists have all had, or been, distinctive singers whose voices were integral to my attachment, |
| 5 | NEO JAPONISM | "SNIPER" | SNIPER +3 | but never quite my favorite singers in pure vocal terms. |
| 6 | Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai | "酔いどれ知らず feat.松下" | single | The personal crushes have all been on musicians whose music I liked a lot, |
| 7 | Malcolm Mask McLaren | "bright" | single | but not my single favorites, |
| 8 | TOKYO TEFUTEFU | "LYCORisALIVE" | LYCORisALIVE +1 | and I suspect this is not coincidental: |
| 9 | CYCLONISTA | "FLAME FLAME" | single | Favorite Artist is a form of personal deification, |
| 10 | Haruka Tomatsu | "Alter Echo" | single | and crushes are specifically and helplessly human. |
| 11 | #2i2 | "Don't beぞんびー" | single | "You do not fall in love with your gods", I was about to say, |
| 12 | Emma Hewitt | "FALLEN" | Ghost of the Light | but clearly the Greek pantheon didn't operate under this stricture, |
| 13 | Dotter | "No Room For Love" | single | so I guess I'm revealing which gods' performative nonexistences I grew up with. |
| 14 | Gatlin | "When You’re Breaking My Heart" | single | I'm probably revealing how I differentiate between personal relationships and artistic awe, |
| 15 | Alana Springsteen | "chameleon" | single | which may not be a uniform feature of all moral pantheons, either. |
| 16 | Great Northern | "Animl" | single | There's also the small detail that groups of 4-5 British men are not the center of my personal gender preferences, |
| 17 | Bully | "Change Your Mind" | Change Your Mind +3 | but I've had favorite artists of crush-appropriate cardinality |
| 18 | PONY | "Sick" | Velveteen | without emotionally conflating their music and their selves. |
| 19 | Mise En Scene | "Burn Out" | single | Then again, maybe not enough to justify generalization. |
| 20 | Lande Hekt | "Pottery Class" | single | Kate Bush and Tori Amos are complicated public figures with almost complementary approaches to emotional presence, |
| 21 | Dream Wife | "Who Do You Wanna Be?" | Who Do You Wanna Be? +3 | but a similar sense of spectatorial distance. |
| 22 | 玻璃校了 | "分割" | 経済の凛隔 3 | I have been physically close to Tori, performing, |
| 23 | umitachi | "dawn" | single | but the intense intimacy was always collective. |
| 24 | Lisasinson | "Se Me Ha Muerto Una Flor" | Un Año De Cambios | "Hear a pin drop", a flyer for one of her concerts proposed. |
| 25 | Alison Darwin | "Indiferentes" | single | It was not explained why the audience would arrive with pins, never mind be, I guess, transferring them from one pocket to another during the show. |
| 26 | Chris Farren | "Cosmic Leash" | single | But regardless, this is not what your friends ever said when they were trying to set you up with somebody's adorable sister. |
| 27 | Spanish Love Songs | "Haunted" | single | Tori's visceral physicality and Kate's methodical public reticence activated similar force-fields with different generators. |
| 28 | Origami Angel | "My PG County Summer" | My PG County Summer +1 | Vulnerability and presence trigger different instincts. |
| 29 | Bell X1 | "Spacewalk" | single | My worst crush, or best, depending on how you measure, |
| 30 | Meursault | "Laugh Track" | single | which got as far as a record-review that began "If we marry" -- |
| 31 | Nation of Language | "Stumbling Still" | Stumbling Still +2 | a meditative conjecture about art as outreach more than a proposal that assumes its goals, but still -- |
| 32 | Wicca Phase Springs Eternal | "Farm" | Farm +2 | was on a singer who still lives in the same town I do, |
| 33 | Gameboi | "Le Deux" | Climax | whose records I have sometimes also adored but sometimes just liked. |
| 34 | Anthem for Maria | "Nayeon" | Romance Dawn, Arc 1: Nayeon + Ahoy! 2 | A persona is no less abstract, of course, by virtue of being performed by a human that you might, |
| 35 | Chicosci | "Dust" | single | logistically, run into at Whole Foods, |
| 36 | The Ultimate Heroes | "Maleta" | single | but as long as you might and yet don't, this is just part of the abstraction. |
| 37 | THE MAYTH | "Stake Everythng" | single | Streaming may not change stardom in this way, |
| 38 | Himmelstürmer | "Want You Bad" | single | as Taylor Swift's persona lineage (however conscious) from Tori and Alanis demonstrates, |
| 39 | Kärbholz | "Chaos" | single | but it changes the other end of the popularity spectrum by extending it indefinitely. |
| 40 | This Eternal Decay | "That Night" | ABSØLUTIØN | All of us who share songs without any pretense of professionality, |
| 41 | Simonsen | "Ven Conmigo" | single | or fall in love with them without first demanding structural context, |
| 42 | Pignoise | "Mientras quede aliento" | single | blur the systemic distinction between performance and extroversion. |
| 43 | Chelsea Boots | "Ruido Blanco" | Parte I | This machine built for broadcasting attention-control |
| 44 | Da Igual | "Marioneta" | single | ends up allowing us to find each other with songs, |
| 45 | Age Factory | "Party night in summer dream" | single | and maybe this indirection is more powerful than the blunt literalism of dating apps, |
| 46 | kanon | "candle" | single | not least because it doesn't presuppose the nature of the connections, |
| 47 | Galileo Galilei | "色彩" | single | or its birdsong cardinality. |
| 48 | SHE'S | "Happy Ending" | single | Here, too, I might be describing my own evolution rather than humanity's. |
| 49 | アメノイロ。 | "aishiteta" | kaze huku madobe ga mimamoru asa ni | My own listening seems to be converging towards infinity, |
| 50 | asayake no ato | "リグレット" | single | as if I would learn to love everything given enough time, |
| 51 | PAIL OUT | "yoiyoi" | single | and have sacrificed only jazz as my token concession to mortality. |
| 52 | Nulbarich | "Reach Out" | single | Globalism is a moral philosophy and a political framework, |
| 53 | FLOW | "LOST" | single | but when I say I'm a globalist the thing I'm really hearing in my head is |
| 54 | 鳩とスパイス | "それは銀河鉄道にて" | それは銀河鉄道にて +1 | "Ana Ng", the They Might Be Giants song, |
| 55 | tarareva | "RE:LOOP" | single | my near-scriptural text of what shared humanity most essentially implies: |
| 56 | Emma Hewitt | "TIES" | Ghost of the Light | not just a legislated equivalence of rights, |
| 57 | Eleine | "War Das Alles" | War Das Alles +2 | but the deeply internalized belief that you have not yet heard your favorite song. |
| 58 | Within Temptation | "Wireless" | Wireless | It could come from anywhere, in the most familiar or most unexpected form, |
| 59 | Desdæmona | "Nemesis (Blackened Heart)" | single | but accepting this idea is only the beginning of a transformation |
| 60 | Walk in Darkness | "Towards Chang'an" | single | from reductive acquisitiveness |
| 61 | Degrees of Truth | "Over the Tide" | single | to openhearted receptivity. |
| 62 | Solarcycles | "Raven's Call" | single | Once you realize that you might fall in love with a song |
| 63 | Pyramaze | "Alliance" | Alliance +2 | you would never have heard before, |
| 64 | Arogya | "Spell" | SuperNatural | you're about 3 minutes from realizing that if this happens once, |
| 65 | Reasons Behind | "The Flame Inside" | single | it can happen again, |
| 66 | False Memories | "The Other Side" | single | and then the only possible stable state |
| 67 | Divided Island | "To the End of Life" | single | is that every new song could be your favorite for its duration. |
| 68 | The Artificials | "Soul Catcher" | single | The only end is rapture. |
| 69 | Red Eleven | "Blackbird" | single | Music is not an intricately intermediated dating app, |
| 70 | Lucifer | "A Coffin Has No Silver Lining - The Sistine Version" | single | it's a joy conductor. |
| 71 | Stormburst | "Get Up On Your Feet" | III | Persona crushes are not misconstruals of the boundary between artist and art, |
| 72 | Stardust | "Losing Me" | single | they are resonances with ways of being. |
| 73 | Imperium | "Together Forever" | Never Surrender | Crushes are a pragmatics of immersion in delight. |
| 74 | House of Shakira | "Toxic Train" | XIT | The new category I've only, this week, fully realized I have, |
| 75 | Mystic Prophecy | "Demons Of The Night" | Hellriot | as the rest of this long awaited album of Emma Hewitt songs spins through my obsession, |
| 76 | Kataklysm | "Bringer of Vengeance" | single | is voice crush. |
| 77 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Where Pain Begins" | single | I know very little about Emma Hewitt, |
| 78 | Sweet Sadness | "A Journey in Failure" | As Failure Was Part of the Journey 3 | and even less about my other voice crush, ReoNa. |
| 79 | Thulcandra | "In the Eye of Heaven" | Hail the Abyss | I am not going to run into them at Whole Foods. |
| 80 | Frostnatt | "Isens Rike" | Den Russiske Frosten | I'm at Whole Foods to buy food to take home and cook for my family, anyway, |
| 81 | moreru | "夕暮れに伝えて" | single | and I'm not going to meet people because I'm wearing noise-canceling earbuds |
| 82 | Botanist | "Against the Selenic Light" | VIII: Selenotrope | and the people around me are the noise. |
| 83 | Emma Hewitt | "EVERLASTING" | Ghost of the Light | But Emma's voice comes on as I'm looking for the good brand of lactose-free sour cream |
| 84 | One More Time | "Kärleken" | Kärleken +1 | and only the visible parts of my body are there in the aisle. |
| 85 | Kabza De Small | "Welele (feat. Makhadzi)" | The Konka Mixtape : Sweet & Dust | I like her music for more than just her voice. |
| 86 | Officixl Rsa | "Spaku" | My Incognito Way | I gave Burn the Sky Down 15 points and my #1 album vote on the 2012 Pazz & Jop poll. |
| 87 | Jah Prayzah | "Chiremerera" | Chiremerera | Ironically, maybe, for a singer whose commercial livelihood is mostly based on singing over other people's usually-style-formulaic trance beats, |
| 88 | Nontokozo Mkhize | "Lu Strong (feat. Nomfundo Moh)" | single | when Emma is in control of her own rhythm it is stately and unhurried, often more orchestral than metronomic. |
| 89 | SmeezyOn The Beat | "Nnyakeng(Ke Single)" | single | The music is sinuously geometric: textural where Kate's is literary, accurate where Tori's is precise; like Enya's elegiac elegance brought in out of the Orinoco spray to some more introspective reverberation. |
| 90 | Thabiso Lameslow | "Manyeke Tsitsa" | single | The stories are simple, but earnest. |
| 91 | Indiya | "Angisenamali" | Usungaze uzibulale | The songs are magnificent, and as impatiently as I've tolerated their slow one-by-one single emergence |
| 92 | Maqhinga Hadebe | "Ivila" | single | since the eventuality of the album was announced with "INTO MY ARMS" back in July, |
| 93 | Tinariwen | "Arajghiyine" | Amatssou | I am almost too overwhelmed by getting the rest of them all at once. |
| 94 | Nakibembe Embaire Group | "160" | Nakibembe Embaire Group | I'm not accustomed to having to wait for anything for this long, although I'm trying to learn. |
| 95 | Yusuf / Cat Stevens | "All Nights, All Days" | All Nights, All Days +2 | But something else happens to me when I hear her voice, |
| 96 | Elevation Worship | "Praise (feat. Brandon Lake, Chris Brown & Chandler Moore)" | CAN YOU IMAGINE? | and it happens more on these songs than when she's singing over laser shows, |
| 97 | Takun | "Happy Birthday" | single | but it happens there, too. |
| 98 | Fallen Shrine | "sandstorm" | single | Half of my muscle fibers tense and half of them relax, all at once, |
| 99 | Secret Archives of the Vatican | "Sverðberandi" | single | as if I'm being attacked and caressed from two different additional dimensions. |
| 100 | World's End Girlfriend | "Ave Maria - short edit" | single | I'm an atheist, but I understand the feeling of yearning identification with the immortal. |
| 101 | DROTT | "Troldhaug" | TROLL | Emma's voice makes me want: |
| 102 | Bear the Mammoth | "Freshwater" | single | for these songs not to end |
| 103 | Acadence | "Standstill" | single | but to hear more of them, |
| 104 | Corrupt-R | "Harbinger" | Lost in Millennia | for joy to be liberated by disembodiment |
| 105 | Filthy Gears | "Choreography" | Mutation | but then recorporated into a shimmery layer just beneath our skin, |
| 106 | President T | "Rome" | single | for everybody to discover a key to their heart |
| 107 | Shatta Wale | "Wetin" | single | tapping on a microphone on the other size of the planet. |
| 108 | VIIVI | "Mitä näil korteil saa?" | single | If I google Emma and ReoNa at once these playlists are the second result, |
| 109 | Aidan Baker | "Yn Gyntaf" | Trio Not Trio - Yn Gyntaf | but I checked Spotify data and I'm only the world's 68th biggest fan of the two of them in combination, |
| 110 | Yann Novak | "Super Coherent Light" | single | so maybe Ana Ng is walking around ecstatic and distracted this week, too. |
| 111 | Nakibembe Embaire Group | "133" | Nakibembe Embaire Group | Or maybe your crushes are triggered not by elfin Oceanic voices but the rattle of Busoga log xylophones. |
| 112 | SMR LVE | "Stay" | single | Any determined pulse can become a trance. |
| 113 | SadBois | "Lonely Nights" | single | A sound gets stuck in your head, |
| 114 | Emma Hewitt | "THE RIVER" | Ghost of the Light | and you feel like you can remember everything: |
| 115 | Kontrollverlust | "Sag das Zauberwort - Sailor Moon" | Sag das Zauberwort (Sailor Moon) 3 | the spells you tried to cast, |
| 116 | Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution | "Children Of The Revolution - Bonus Track" | Golden Age of Music | the ways they failed, |
| 117 | Arctic Rain | "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" | single | how that failure made you kinder. |
| 118 | Ghost | "See No Evil" | Phantomime 5 | These songs spin themselves into a reflective sheen that shows us ourselves, |
| 119 | The Linda Lindas | "Linda Linda" | Growing Up | taking turns inhabiting each other's imaginary ideals. |
| 120 | Mzansi Youth Choir | "Roar" | single | You hear a voice. |
| 121 | The Animal In Me | "Happy" | single | Imagine who you would be if you were happy. |
| 122 | Sarah Jezebel Deva | "Cities in Dust" | single | That's what it sounds like. |