Avan Lava is a super-funky disco duo from Brooklyn comprised of Fischerspooner bassist Le Chev and the Princely pipes of newcomer Tom Hennes. Their debut EP, Vapors, was just self-released digitally; a few rare physical copies, encased in painted wood, are currently floating around New York's record store hotspots. With Hennes's vocals in the forefront doing wildly funky, Erasure-evoking falsettos and Le Chev's music blipping along in epileptic harmony, it would be easy to paint these guys as the joyous sons of Jamie Lidell. But Avan Lava's textures are more euphoric than headknocking--their relentless grooves also evoke a love of things like Sigur Ros, Sea Change-era Beck, Beach House, and other feel-good blasts.

(Source: Christopher Weingarten, April 29, 2010, http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/04/meet_avan_lava.php)

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