PVT - Nightfall

This song has a kind of Gotye 'Heart's a Mess' feel, but with deeper vocals and a darker fantasy. It's 90's throwback with video game love; dark and dangerous, but adventurous and anxious. The background vocals sound like voice samples being played on a keyboard, even though they don't sound synthetic - there's just an undeniable instrument quality in the way they're looped, sometimes even sounding like strings. It's one of those fuzzy dreamstate songs you can put on repeat for hours, with static echoes and distorted music.

Glitter Pox rating: 71% contagious

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The Mynabirds - Disarm

Disarm is percussion on percussion on percussion on your heels through the whole song. The guitar has a melody that strings the vocals together, but it's the drumming that creates something solid to combat. It's like the music is making a wall the vocalist is singing against, until they both come up with a compromise and sync.

Glitter Pox rating: 86% contagious

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Peter Wolf Crier - Beach

Beach has a rain stick background and a completely organic vibe, the drumming sounding like it's done on a tin can under storm clouds. The double vocals throughout the song are layered and overlapped in a way that's natural, even though they sound like schizophrenic thought. The song goes quiet in the drained out static of the last few seconds, contrasting the sticky-sweet layers of frosted notes that made this song into a musical confection right before its sugar-high drop.

Glitter Pox rating: 84% contagious

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Sleeper Agent - Get It Daddy

Favorite lyrics: I'm not a baby no more.

The lead singer chick in this song really sounds like she could kick your ass, and it's great. It's consistently solid, but it's the breakdown that makes it gold. From upbeat to slow hard rocker bass with a Jack White inlay, it makes for the best downplay to the freedom of this song. And it's followed up by a vocalist switch that's very Jamie Hince-ish, so the reminiscent references this band has are top-notch. But this song has its own incomparable vibe to it, a roguish complex that brings a Skins-like naughty teenage road trip to mind.

Glitter Pox rating: 90% contagious

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Dan Croll - From Nowhere

This song starts like a garden breeze, with keyboard and drumpad taking place of songbirds, and then the bass comes in and slams the windows. It's a little like Miike Snow's 'Animal,' an artist that can similarly blend synth and grit. And instead of just fading out, the song echoes out, a repeat of verses and background vocals mixing together to bounce around cave walls all night.

Glitter Pox rating: 74% contagious

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Revolution, I Love You - Not So Sure

Not So Sure is lead by a shaky-voiced someone and backed with music you can dance to - especially the parts with the electric, metallic-zipper backbeat. It's like the music is full on robot and the shakiness in the vocals is full on human, and the mixture of the two makes one classyass transformer-like dance song.

Glitter Pox rating: 78% contagious

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Icky Blossoms - Perfect Vision

Favorite lyrics: I closed my eyes, I lost my mind

There's such a slow, lazy rock feel to this song, with something peacefully chaotic about it and the way it builds a constant sonic mess of words and woahs. There are a lot of layered vocals with a monotony behind them, fading into straight smoky dance music, so that there's always either quietly dedicated boredom or pulsing percussion. It's just such an everlasting kind of song, like there's a lifetime in its six minute time slot.

Glitter Pox rating: 89% contagious

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