FREE MP3: DVAS: CONSENTING ADULTS + QUESTIONS

Toronto’s DVAS recently popped up on our radar. Their synth heavy album Society already hit #1 on the Canadian College Radio RPM Chart and VAS recently inked a deal with Toronto’s Upper Class Recordings to relaease the album in the US on November 16th.   DVAS are known and loved for their funky synth-based dance floor jams  and do not disappoint with their full-length debut.

Enjoy: Dvas – Consenting Adults

Download: Dvas – Questions

On “Society,” the lead single from Toronto dance revivalists DVAS’s album Society(Upper Class Recordings, November 16), singer Jered Stuffco sings, “Isn’t it nice to break free from the VIPs tonight.” “Society”’s synthesizer and slap bass could easily have been lifted off Marcia Griffith’s “Electric Boogie” (that’s the “Electric Slide” song from those middle school dances). But DVAS also comes off like a modern group, something akin to Cut Copy, with less grittiness. There’s a Cut Copy-esque crunch on “Consenting Adults” and midway through the instrumental “Inner Sanctum” the entire mix is sent through a harsh, Daft Punk-like compression. Elsewhere on Society, DVAS are shameless purveyors of yacht rock and ’90s adult-contemporary, at once jokey and quite serious. That irony may be lost on Stuffco, who recently mouthed off to AOL’s Spinner with his thoughts on hipster culture. But if DVAS just let the music speak for itself, they may find that Chromeo sweet spot of irony and awesome that they’re reaching for.

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