Serena Ryder - Stompa

This song is for the ladies. Guys can like it too, yeah yeah yeah, but it has this badass girl power vibe that makes being a chick great. It has this deep drum beat and hard guitar with edgy vocals but a soft melody, something strong but sincere to it. It's entirely solid all the way through to the piano ending, which is such a shift that it almost feels like a new song is about to start. The whole thing is just full of fire and feist.

Glitter Pox rating: 77% contagious

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Fanfarlo - I'm A Pilot

I'm A Pilot starts off all military serious, but then it puts a piano overlay on top of the chain-rattling repetition and it's kind of gorgeous. The vocals are similar to Beirut or Arcade Fire, with this endearing Little Miss Sunshine quality. This whole song is like an optimistic pessimist, or a pessimistic optimist. Half the time it sounds gloomy and the other half of the time it sounds entirely hopeful and happy.

Glitter Pox rating: 88% contagious

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Tiger Milk Imports - Utah Highway Discotheque

This song has a dubstepped synthetic zipper noise that starts it out, and then the music fades into an acid-washed quality. It's like a good pair of jeans that have been put through the wash too many times. From the dark background to the monotone voice and the howling chorus, this song is creepy yet entirely unique and likeable.

Glitter Pox rating: 89% contagious

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Olympic Ayres - Girl

The lyrics in Girl are safe but sexy, and the vocalist's voice has this soft tonality that is like a sing-talk. There's something damn sensual about this song, but we can't pinpoint what it is exactly. Maybe it's because it has a decent balance of modern and fresh, dancy and smooth, or maybe it's because of all the oh's in the background, but whatever it is - it's a good thing.

Glitter Pox rating: 74% contagious

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New Beat Fund - Scare Me

Scare Me goes from piano to punk in seconds, with a Cage the Elephant feel on top of a talkative melody. Even though the lyrics are about hiding under your sheets, the upbeat vibe of it makes you want to crawl out from under them. The whole song has a humor to it, and it doesn't take itself too seriously even though it's about anxiety and all kinds of deep meaningful stuff. It's a song you can actually listen to and think about or if you feel like it you can just listen to it on the surface. And the last few seconds are the best, when it TS Eliot's itself and ends with a whimper instead of a bang.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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Golden Suits - You Can't Make Up Your Mind

The piano that starts off You Can't Make Up Your Mind is overly melancholic, so the handclaps-and-finger-snaps beat brings it out of a predictableness and into something a little more playful than its painful lyrics and bored monotony. That beat kind of overpowers the music with a fake smile layered on top of the instruments they actually use, which are hard to even hear in the song at times until you strip away its layers. It's a song that has a lot more to it than your first listen. "It always ends the same," is a great last lyric for this song full of repetitive confessions.

Glitter Pox rating: 58% contagious

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The Glitter Pox