Leagues - Spotlight

The drum and guitar own this song with a combo of high and low beats. The falsetto background vocals and flippant guitar riffs treat the song playfully, but there's something strong behind it to back it up. It's just a solidly written song that sounds damn good.

Glitter Pox rating: 73% contagious

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The Zolas - Ancient Mars

Canada makes some good music, and The Zolas is now on our checklist of examples when we're trying to prove it (alongside Mother Mother and Wildlife and 500 other bands - Canada takes all the good ones.) Ancient Mars is one long analogy of a song. It's all full of nostalgia for a person on this grand aspect, but it's written in a way that's as catchy as it is smart. The lyrics belong to a lights-out song you play at night when you want to feel sorry for yourself, but there's something really really charming to it.

Glitter Pox rating: 91% contagious

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TRUST - Trinity

Trust opened for Starfucker a few nights ago in Cleveland, and they made a lot of sound. And fog. They basically used a fog machine as an instrument, smoking the front row out in a tangibly musical haze. They have this transient kind of feel, as if the music can travel anywhere and be comfortable with it. And the singer makes a vocal ombre with his songs, from low to high notes like it's nothing. Trinity especially has a really Sleep Party People feel, vocal-wise. They self-described TRUST on facebook as "speed, space, + tears" and that's what you get.

Glitter Pox rating: 67% contagious

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Spender - Never Again

This song starts with mostly percussion and fast vocals of insults, but then it has an intermission of fancy lounge music. It's everything you want to say to someone blatantly sung, but hidden in elegant notes, like it's laughing in brass instruments. It's the classiest revenge song you'll ever hear.

Glitter Pox rating: 85% contagious

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John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Favorite lyrics: I hope you conquer the world and turn it into your toy.

This song starts off like some ominous space battle is about to go down. It's synthesized theatrics at its finest; I mean, parts of the song basically make you check over your shoulder for Norman Bates. It's kind of badass, though, like a catchy fight anthem. It's just made for a movie. There are so many different emotions, just in the music alone, that make it perfect for a thousand different scenes. The fast, low vocals tell you some really good lyrics, too, almost like a well-sung short story.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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Little Daylight - Overdose

Favorite lyrics: Nights with you like tunnel vision

Overdose is one you fall into like a drug high; the drums are the backbone of the song and the bass and guitar also make themselves known, which sets this one apart from a lot of songs with electronic elements. Usually instruments are lost in a computerized background, but they're the focal point of Overdose. The vocals in the chorus are an earful, too - she goes through the first line without spaces in between words, just an effortless, casual change in consonants. Songs referencing people to drugs aren't uncommon, but this song's lyrics take it further into a kind of human-induced oblivion.

Glitter Pox rating: 79% contagious

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Robert DeLong - Global Concepts

So this song starts with some Ben Gibbard-like vocals before it lays a picnic blanket down of ingredients for a good indie song, with some tribal tin drumming and fake rainstorms and classy Owl-City sounds. And then it decides to prove you wrong on your expectations, drop some acid, and go bassackwards into an electric club request. But it's a genuine well-written song about life and music, which makes it even better. And it just makes you fucking dance.

Glitter Pox rating: 92% contagious

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The Districts - Telephone

The tags on Districts bandcamp go like this: blues, jazz, punk rock, soul. And that kind of makes sense when you listen to their stuff. Telephone starts off with the white-noise candy of electric communication, but in between beats of static, the vocals give the song a bluesy folk silkiness. There's a modern grittiness to it, but even though it has some rough edges, it's still smooth to your ears.

Glitter Pox rating: 65% contagious

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