The notorious Safetybear (aka David Bratton) — all-around swell dude and one of Tass Times’ most reliable sources for great new music to check out — also happens to comprise 50% of the rad electro-pop duo Oars. They were recently profiled over at Stay Thirsty Media and answer the question you know you’ve been dying to ask them yourselves:

“What happens when you put a self-described jazz geek from Seattle and ex-BMX rider from east of LA in a recording studio for half a year?”

Well pals, the mystery is cleared up here!

Check it out, then do yourself a big favor and iTunes up their debut album, full of irresistible ants-in-your-pants-so-just-dance tunes by two super-talented, multi-instrumentalist, knob-twiddling (and guitar rocking, keyboard pounding, microphone checking…) electronic evil geniuses. OK, fine, they’re not evil. More like a ray of headphone sunshine peeking through your dour-as-of-late heavy rotation MP3s.

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