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Homecoming Queen, Devours’ fourth album, serves as a collected recollection for Vancouver-based musician Jeff Cancade. Through a more traditional synth-pop album, which also operates as a memoir, Cancade uses the guise and stylings of Devours to tell their most personal stories yet. In an interview last year, Cancade told Xtra, “I created this character of Devours as a ‘gaylien,’ and Planet Devours as a gay utopia where men can feel free to act feminine and be themselves.” On Homecoming Queen, Devours returns to Earth with a certain wisdom and self-awareness &mdas...

"I want to see the darker side of queer existence.”

Devours is a name I’ve heard around Vancouver for quite some time. It’s only when I saw him live at a block party this past September, that I realized why he's considered such a force. His appearance is immediately captivating, but it's the breadth and depth of his artistic expression that keeps you truly entertained. Live music was just starting to rear its head again, and we all watched amazed as he toiled over his cauldron of media equipment in the middle of Victory Square — featuring perfect segues into each track and especially potent commentary in between. It was a grea...

8 Escape from Planet Devours was born from a nervous breakdown. Jeff Cancade, a.k.a. Vancouver electro-pop gaylien Devours, spent the pandemic isolated and unemployed. His already waning obsession with "making it" as a musician died as the entire industry plunged into uncertainty. Disillusioned and depressed, music stopped being fun, and he nearly quit. Throughout this time, he continued struggling with body image issues. They largely stemmed from his experiences among gay communities that worshipped at the altar of hypermasculinity. On Escape, he's extricated himself from the resultant inse...

Devours Teases 'Escape from Planet Devours' with Two New Tracks Hear the Vancouver artist's newly shared "Death Is a B-Side" and "Lightning at Your Funeral" Published May 05, 2021Devours is gearing up to release his new double album Escape from Planet Devours later this month, and to give it one last push, the Vancouver artist has shared a pair of new tracks off the record. Today you can dive into the new album cuts "Death Is a B-Side" and "Lightning at Your Funeral," which have both arrived with their own lyric videos. While "Death Is a B-Side" takes a more ballad-type approach, "Lightning...