Kindlewood – An Interlude
Cullen Ruff – Longing
#KNO-1 – Love Won’t Let Me Wait
Dirdy Redzz – Drinks at Adams Morgan
Hurlebaus – 1998
The Rail Runners – The Word
Furniteur – Redundant Buzz
Daniel Bachman – Farnham
Peals – Become Younger
PHZ-Sicks – Stream of Consciousness
Yoko K. – attic
Ras Nebyu – Slizzed Up ft. The Arckitech
Elijah Jamal Balbed – What Matters Most – In Life
nick tha 1da – bluburies
Wye Oak – Archaic Smile
Empresarios – Rootsy Jam
Aaron Leitko – 0505#4
Griefloss – Void
Judah – Liv’s Theme Music
Gordon Withers – Revolving Doors

“We casually kept in touch over the years,” says Teetsov, 24, but the two didn’t formally reconnect until a couple of years ago. Their electronic project, Pleasure Curses, began to take shape less than a year later. Now the duo—based in Northern Virginia—has a string of increasingly well-crafted songs under its belt, the most recent of which—“Burn”—gets a release party tonight at D.C. nightspot Dunya.

For “Burn,” Teetsov and Grice worked with Brett and Furniteur producer Kevin Bayly, whose label, Prince George Records, is co-releasing the single (with Boston’s Bob Records) as a split 7-inch with Brooklyn garage-pop band Boytoy.

The pair say they met Bayly at a house show, hit it off and later recorded the single at his home studio. The tune sounds icy, but it actually came out of a dead-hot D.C. summer. “I remember us having to turn all the fans off in the house during one of the hottest days of the summer so it wouldn’t get picked up in the takes,” Teetsov says.

The lyrics sound similar to ones Teetsov has written before—moody and a little open-ended, like the stuff of his synthpop forebears. “A lot of my lyrics are about a feeling or a social dynamic between people rather than a specific event that happened exactly to me in narrative form,” he says. He first wrote the lyrics a few years ago while living in the U.K. and observing human interactions at night, like a David Attenborough for the English clubbing scene.

“When I first wrote the song, I used to go to these kind of rough night clubs in northern England and would people-watch. Some people are out to get in a fight or gain a conquest or find love, and everything is reduced to this primal level because you can’t really carry on a quiet conversation in a place where music is blasting and everyone is in an altered state,” Teetsov says. “‘Burning’ can refer to seeing something incendiary about another person’s ‘aura’ in those moments or purging of a relationship.”

But ultimately, the songwriter says, the song’s meaning is “up for the listener to interpret.”

Pleasure Curses perform live tonight at Dunya with DJ sets from Nightbird, M.O.T.M. and Mike Simonetti. Purchase the “Burn” 7-inch at the show or via Prince George Records’ website.

“Modern Love,” Furniteur’s debut track, could have been crafted in a recording studio circa 1982: Brighter and sweeter than early-aughts electroclash, it’s a clear-cut throwback to the synthy heyday of Yazoo, Eurythmics, and Italo disco (but as far as I can tell, Sims’ project is not a reference to the actual ’80s band called Furniture). Synthpop revivalism is probably the second most popular form of revivalism in D.C. at the moment, second only to the fuzzy garage-rock coming out of the region; Sims’ contribution is one of the most straightforward examples of it yet.

Kevin Bayly and Mike Toohey of D.C. popmakers Brett produced the track, which will appear on Furniteur’s debut EP this spring on Prince George Records, an imprint co-run by Bayly. Furniteur plays its first show April 5 at The Dunes with Cavale, Pleasure Curses, and Italian duo Joy Cut.

Listen to “Modern Love” below.