The first image that comes to mind when listening to P.O.V. on Dvsn's (pronounced Division) new album Morning After is a dimly lit room with clothes scattered across the floor and bodies writhing. It is a theme that permeates the album with lusty abandon and what makes listening to it such a decadent experience.
According to the album description on Apple Music, the Canadian duo's second album is "glistening" and, after some out-of-the-box thinking, that makes sense.
The album is a slick and thoroughly modern throwback to the kind of baby-making R&B that made Keith Sweat famous and had Ginuwine gyrating semi topless in baggy leather pants. Songs like Think About Me and Keep Calm sound like a seductively whispered double entendre that leaves your loins tingling.
LISTEN | P.O.V by Dsvn
One can hear Drake's OVO Sound fingerprints all over the production, and that is no surprise considering they are signed to the label. What is surprising are the heavy late 1990s to early 2000s R&B influences that swirl through the album.
Dvsn aren't trying to reduce you to a bumbling heap of self-conscious tears. They're chronicling the ups and downs of love in a time of DMs, with all its lusts and refractory periods. They've done that well and ensured that a future generation will awkwardly recount how they were conceived to a Dvsn song.
