On Wednesday, October 29th the Community Center for the Performing Arts proudly welcomes Glitterfox to the WOW Hall.

Many bands chase fame through a triangulation of aspirational branding, music production software, and social media prowess. But like the countless troubadours and punk rockers who’ve inspired them, the indie rock group Glitterfox values authenticity over algorithm. Their ascent has been remarkably uncomplicated: Get in the van, play unforgettable shows in town after town, make a bunch of friends. As Solange Igoa (they/ them), the band’s effervescent frontperson, jokes, “We have always been driven by this kind of blind faith and delusional confidence.”

This has culminated in Glitterfox’s first full-length, decoder (out August 22, Jealous Butcher Records), a jubilant explosion of tracks that synthesizes the two songwriters’ garage rock, new wave, southern Americana and dance music influences into a sound that is singularly, inimitably Glitterfox.

So, what’s a Glitterfox? Technically, the word means nothing, but symbolically, it can represent anything: an antidote to conventional art, a frontier of opportunity, the emancipation from everything that ails you. decoder’s tracks, in kind, observe undulations of the human condition: the tug-of-war between fate and perseverance in the wistful singalong “Passenger,” an affirmation of identity entwined in the twangy, spacious grunge-ballad “Change Me,” and “Polaroids,” about guitarist Andrea Walker’s recent autism diagnosis, which oscillates between isolation and hope. “I was like, ‘What the fuck?’” Walker (they/them) explains. “I was completely blindsided, until everything made sense.”