Santigold - Lights Out

Artist: Santigold Track: Lights Out Album: Santigold Year: 2008
I distinctly remember walking around campus my first semester of college, listening to this song on repeat. I love the breathy vocals over a strong bass line with soft background harmonies. I also love the guitar riff in the chorus. It all just combines itself into an extremely catchy pop song and something about her voice makes it stand out a little to me. 
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Iration - Falling

Artist: Iration

Track: Falling

Album: Time Bomb

Year: 2010

Iraiton's "Falling" paints a picture in your mind of sun and sand and relaxing by a beach as the waves lap at the shore. They're sound doesn't bring anything new to the reggae genre, but it fills in that spot in my music collection quite nicely. The lyrics are fun and sweet with nice harmonies. I can never get tired of listening to this track and it's another one of those that ends up on every once of my summery vacation playlists. 

Now, I know it might seem weird to feature a summer song as winter quickly approaches, but on those bright sunny days that get sprinkled in every now and then, it's a good track to have.

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