Doldrums - Copper Girl

The music carries Copper Girl as much as the hazy vocals - they accentuate each other into this dreamlike state that the whole song has. It starts off slow and sweet for a few seconds, until something dark gets dipped into it and it becomes more tainted the longer it goes on. It has a kind of Sleep Party People thing going on, a creepy sinister innocence vibe.

Glitter Pox rating: 78% contagious

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You Go Running - Deep Sea Diver

Favorite lyrics: you watch your lips pulse to the beat of trouble

This song starts with laughter and shouts, a kind of prologue for the dancing you'll be doing. There are few bands who manage the quirky nonchalance as easily as Deep Sea Diver does in this song, like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Thao and the Get Down Stay Down. There's just a catch to their songs that makes them unforgettable, and You Go Running has that. It switches beats so effortlessly and flawlessly, with enough seamless movement in the riffs to make it lively. Near the end, right when you get into the routine of the song, it stops into a drum breakdown and then a new melody picks up. It's consistently refreshing until the end, never falling into what you'd expect.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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Bad Veins - Devil Hides

Favorite lyrics: you can't give up cuz I give up the most

Devil Hides sounds like a science experiment, with bites and rattles like a sped-up Animal Planet commercial; it sounds like a hunter lazily enjoying its prey or a flower blooming in hyper speed, something beautiful but intimidating. There's a steady static sound with an abundance of definition throughout the entire song, making the ending sound somehow more silent than before you even started listening to it. The music is the obvious catch, but there's a wariness in the vocals that becomes more intensive the longer you listen.

Glitter Pox rating: 66% contagious

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Harrison Hudson - Indie Rock N Roll Queen

Favorite lyrics: oh don't look now, there there she goes again. oh my lord no, my heart is following

We really love us some songs about femme fatales. Indie Rock N Roll Queen has a rock sound in some of its verses like you'd think, but it's also mixed with a catchy indiepop chorus. Harrison Hudson has this quirky 90s TV-special vibe, a band you'd expect to see playing in front of ice cream-colored comic book POWs. All of their songs have this retro rock feel with an innocence to it, so the edge in this song immediately makes you stop and listen. We've seen them live twice, and both times they stood out because each song is seemingly about a different person. Listening to their album is basically just meeting a cast of characters through music, more so than most artists manage, and it's like being invited into a party full of strangers whose life stories you get the instant you greet them. And it's a pretty party.

Glitter Pox rating: 88% contagious

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Gentlemen Hall - Makes Me Feel Alive

'Makes Me Feel Alive' starts with a hip hop beat, some combination of Eminem and Sisqo that you would never expect to hear alongside a band that labels themselves "flute pop." There are so many different elements to this four minute song that it's almost like switching the radio through stations, the vocalists matching the changes fluidly. There are two lead singers in Gentlemen Hall and they harmonize in this song, a high and low contrast that perfectly matches the pacing, but they also break off so that they're both individualized in the rest of their songs, adding even more of a dynamic to the band.

Glitter Pox rating: 86% contagious

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Atlas Genuis - Back Seat

Favorite lyrics: We're complicated, but we're as simple as we wanted to be

Back Seat has an oldtune sound with a dancy vibe fueled by quick drumbeats and tambourine taps that echo through the whole song. There are layers of vocals that are looped like instruments, making it rely on a vocal beat as much as the percussion. The falsetto crescendo is the pull; the part that hooks in your head and drags you to the surface with an easy reel. Atlas Genius kind of have an overall effortlessly orchestrated feel in this song, like they took the time to make their music blend in just the right way so that the overlapping rhythms sound casually laid back.

Glitter Pox rating: 60% contagious

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Kopecky Family Band - Animal

Favorite lyrics: your mouth knows the kiss of danger / I want to hear

Soft and seductive, the beginning of 'Animal' is like the sensation of falling in lust. Passion is added with each instrument until the foundation of the song is strung out with music that's almost tangible. It's a really gradual transition, a barely perceptible change in tone that makes the song seem like it goes from a whisper to a yell, even though the vocals are constantly controlled.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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Generationals - Greenleaf

Favorite lyrics: where did she get the stones to act so tough?

With a keyboard whose battery is plugged right into the sun and low vocals/bass tones, Greenleaf has an equal vibe of light and dark. It's layered, like the light melody is oil skimming on top of water, but the punchline of this song lives right in the center where the upbeat and downbeat meet. It has a kind of ice cream truck quality with a youthful innocence to it, but also a funky kind of bitterness.

Glitter Pox rating: 57% contagious

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Night Panther - Snudge

Favorite lyrics: Pulling out your tongue, / she's gonna' rip it out and / find news, find news.

Snudge is space disco for people with good brains in their head. "Dance music" is kind of associated with repetitive words and beats, but the lyrics in this song are verses full of twisted imagery. It's like someone went and took out all their favorite quotes from a book and put it in a song with some funky keyboard action. It's shoulder-shrugging music, that quirky modern remodeling of an older style that bands like The Drums are so good at doing - and, apparently, Night Panther.

Glitter Pox rating: 77% contagious

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