Canadian artist Stephen Dowd has provided a tantalizingly sultry odes to intimacy that is going to ignite clubs and playlists with his latest dance floor romance “(Ça S’en Vient) It’s Coming Can You Feel It.” Featuring earworm melodies and feel good grooves, it’s full of that kind of thing, and the concept is a neat one: The story of escalating flirtation between two study partners who throw aside their books for more carnal investigations.
They manage to capture the necklaces the appealing pressure of that first remaining developing, and the building of this momentum gradually rises through the show via heating.Starting breezy and poolside ready, it does what its name hints at, layering in urgent percussive hits and thick basslines that are looking to radiate the barely contained want they can’t help but feel. The simmering quality Dowd’s vocals have is also present, a balance between playful coos and smoldering self assuredness that drips with seductive confidence, but it’s in the verse that “(Ça S’en Vient)” really comes to life. The hooks detonate like sparks meeting a fuse, these rapturous synth arpeggios joining an ecstatic chant.
The French refrain “Ça s’en vient” has a pleasing taste to it, a translation of “It’s coming” which is double entendre in French. Dowd fashions a sweat soaked, energy escalating dancefloor experience in which the music is as delightfully conceptually provocative as it is sonically so. The subtle lyricism keeps it just suggestively enough to keep that central act around a mystery, just as it does on “(Ça S’en Vient) It’s Coming Can You Feel It” which ushers in Stephen Dowd’s heightened take on the dance-pop. The result is an irresistible summer gamechanger: a silky songwriting formula paired with club thrills asirresistible as its central affair. This one is going to make you sweat.