trying to narrow down my favorite band to a top 5 songs overall is an exercise in me apologizing to telescope, so instead i'm gonna tell you my top five songs from every album. all rankings subject to change.

ALBUMS, RANKED

  1. vessels - surprised me too. but it's the immediate and obvious answer. vessels is the platonic ideal of starset, in a very real way; it isn't until divisions that they start to get more overtly political, which is also the platonic ideal of starset, but vessels captures the wonders of exploration and the slow corruption of the self so perfectly it could never be any other choice.
    1. ricochet
    2. starlight
    3. unbecoming
    4. bringing it down 2.0
    5. monster
  2. transmissions - a perfect no-skip album. the first and the defining moment. the thing about my demons is that it does, in fact, bang, which is good because it would be really annoying if starset's most well-known song was also their worst.
    1. telescope
    2. dark on me
    3. antigravity
    4. down with the fallen
    5. my demons
  3. horizons - for a while this WAS my favorite starset, until it and vessels swapped places. it remains i think the best example of modern starset: intensely political, rebuking corruption, while still keeping the love alive.
    1. something wicked
    2. disappear
    3. otherworldly
    4. devolution
    5. earthrise
    interval here to say
  4. divisions - i love divisions. as i said when talking about vessels, divisions is when the political intentions of starset became most clear; i mean, narrative-wise it's also when the BMI and the society get brought to the forefront. starset was always political, but divisions was when it became obvious to those who weren't paying attention.
    1. diving bell
    2. perfect machine
    3. trials (reimagine)
    4. other worlds than these
    5. trials
  5. silos - let me be perfectly clear fifth is not BAD by any stretch of the imagination. i love silos a lot. its interstitials bring back some of my favorite parts of transmissions and vessels in the soundscaping and symphonic throughline. silos for me has more skips than the other albums, but it's not like any of those skips are things i'd be disappointed to hear live. also: due to newness the top five songs on this album is currently a four way tie for first and therefore subject to change.
    1. dark things
    2. dystopia
    3. silos
    4. ad astra
    5. toksik