Devours, Total Chroma

Vancouver’s Devours (aka Jeff Cancade) offers super gay goth-tinged electronic pop that spans the gamut of emotions. His 2023 LP Homecoming Queen delivers hyper-danceable synth tracks while singing about everything from melancholic yearnings for youthful queer longing (“37up (the Longing)”) to love songs where both parties are “narcissistic psychopath(s)” (“Silmer”). There’s also a delightful undercurrent of black comedy criticism to be found on songs like “Reverse Ombre” (“Good for you, you’re political now / but as soon as the trends change you’re somebody else”) and the takedown of commodification of queer culture that is “Jacuzzi My Stonewall” (“I guess we’re mainstream now / let’s move out to the ’burbs”). With everything from hyperpop freneticism to cat meows thrown into the mix, a Devours show is capable of making you think, cry, laugh and shake your moneymaker over the course of a single set.

Devours, Total Chroma • Sat, April 6 at 8 pm • $10 • 21+ • The District Bar • 916 W. First Ave. • sp.knittingfactory.com