Julia Holter - Moni Mon Amie

The beginning of Moni Mon Amie is all lyrics and French-accented vocals until at some point in the song the music takes over in a slowly creeping way; it was always there, but it just builds up and takes control by the end. Both the vocals and the music make a certain romantic dream state appeal to this song, but a type that's lacking sleep. A surrealness that can only be shown through the soft encantationesque lyrics, but there's something eerily not right in the song as if the minor under tones have dark secrets. Not only is the music different and artistic, but this video is a beautiful translation of the childlike feel of the melody.

Glitter Pox rating: 92% contagious

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Pretty & Nice - Golden Rules for Golden People

Golden Rules for Golden People is full of high-priced lyrics, words of diamonds and gold and amethyst being sung to you like a bazaar full of gems. The imagery of the entire thing is damn shiny, but the whole theme of this midas-touched album is to break apart pretty exteriors and find something more worthy than money.

Comparing it to Pretty & Nice's other albums, it still has that aggressive guitar and soft vocals that we know them for, but it's more clear cut. It's hard to pull a favorite, since every song has something different to offer your ears. 

The album starts with "We are all instruments" and ends with "that's everything you need to get." However, that's not everything you need to get about Golden Rules for Golden People since knowing that it's not just good sound is something you should go into this album thinking. Because these lyrics are excellent.

"Most pretty shells chime like there's nothing inside," is the first lyric of Q_Q and it kind of contradicts itself because the album art for Golden Rules is very pretty and there's a hell of a lot inside of it.

Like, every song has an entirely different approach. Mummy Jets is the song that consistently gets stuck in our ears, the "aww-ww-ww's" of the chorus serenading our minds all day. But then there's Critters, telling you to dance off your pain, and Yonkers making you feel like you're getting drunk on a yacht, and Kill the Beast being sung to you like a fantasy novel. The title song, Golden Rules, talks about building a ship that won't sink and then it hits a tide of music like chaos. The album is just everywhere with its thoughts and sound, but it ties into this concept of money and music while still sounding hella good.

Just buy it, please. If you're gonna get one album this month, it should be this one.

Wildcat! Wildcat! - Mr. Quiche

Mr.Quiche's intro sounds like this really happy, cheerful summer song until the bass and drums and cymbal on cymbal comes out to play. The vocals match that, too, going from The Limousines-like falsetto singing to monotone-voiced pauses. It's like the song is trying to fake a smile the entire time, but it's a pretty real, human song, even if the lead video star is wearing a giant cat mask.

Glitter Pox rating:
83% contagious

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Post War Years - All Eyes

The beginning of All Eyes sounds like steps through a dream and leads into a Purity Ring meets heavy bass breakdown. It has this really drawn out feeling that matches the chorus's lyrics perfectly: "You have all the time in the world." It's simplistic but obsessively interesting.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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Josef Salvat - This Life

The chill beat and romantic voice behind Josef Salvat has made a lot of people compare him to Lana Del Rey. We can see it with her song Lolita, the "hey's" in both choruses asking you to come closer. The lyrics flow with alliteration and vibrato, the melody in the vocals more than in the music, all the way until the bass-heavy ending.

Glitter Pox rating: 93% contagious

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Joywave - Tongues (feat. KOPPS)

The beginning of Tongues has the uppity jazz of Kimbra, a skipped-vocals intro matched with male vocals that don't seem like they would fit together initially. But they fit in tone with the xylophone so that the high notes and low notes of the music and vocals give this mix-matched vibe that's perfect. It's kind of a great song to speed on the highway to.

Glitter Pox rating: 85% contagious

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Night Beds - Lost Springs

The guitar at the beginning of Lost Springs is slow and seems reminiscent behind the vocals. There's something utterly comfortable about those vocals, too; they aren't demanding but affirming. There's also this sad Sufjan Stevens feel to the song, with the music alluding to the hearing version of a comfort cry.

Glitter Pox rating: 70% contagious

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