Toronto trio NEW CITY are here to bring the party.

The band — made up of Adrian Mitchell (vocals), Jed Webster (guitar, programming) and Nathan Brown (drums, programming) — are unapologetic about being young, free and in pursuit of a good time.

"A lot of people take things so seriously," says Webster. "We believe if it feels good you should do it. If it sounds good, you should play it. Do things that make you feel more alive. Anything that brings you that energy, you need to do more of that."

NEW CITY's music certainly embodies this belief.

Deftly combining soulful vocals and fist-pumping choruses with big beats, EDM drops and classic rock-worthy guitar riffs, the music NEW CITY makes is a bold, genre-bending hybrid. It’s youth culture-focused modern pop that could fit on a playlist with Maroon 5, Disclosure, Calvin Harris, The Chainsmokers and The Weeknd.

Or it could soundtrack a spring break foam party.

"It's mixing modern day electronic music into a band," says Brown. "That's not really being done right now, which is pretty cool. It's electronic with trap, with pop. It's just a big fucking melting pot."

The band are decidedly pro-pot and that feel-good vibe inhabits their music. For Mitchell, NEW CITY's frontman, it's also unabashedly "young and sexy."

Summertime anthem-in-waiting "Coachella" is a perfect example. When they created the song the band imagine what it would be like going hard with your best friends in sunny California. That they were, according to Mitchell, "sitting in a basement, broke, and it was snowing outside," when they wrote it, just makes the song more perfectly aspirational.

"Everything in that song is basically about what we thought Coachella would be like if we went and everything that would happen," says Mitchell of the song's VIP lounges, daring hookups and its reflective aftermath.

The song "Dirty Secrets," meanwhile, could match Mr. Tesfaye for club banger naughtiness.

"It's just a promiscuous, sexy song," says Mitchell, who cites Trey Songz, Omarion and Justin Timberlake as influences.

The band's other signature track "While We're Young" operates almost like a theme song. It's NEW CITY's declaration to live your freest, most audacious life.

"You've got to get it while you're young," says Mitchell. "We just wanted people to stop worrying so much about making mistakes and be free. That's what the song feels like.”

That all said, beneath NEW CITY's hard partying veneer is an equally hard-working and dedicated band. While Mitchell met lifelong friends Brown and Webster at a hotel party in Toronto, their roots are modest. Mitchell hails from Oro-Mendonte in central Ontario and Brown and Webster, who share the production and programming duties for the band, grew up in the small farming community of Sussex, New Brunswick, population 6,000. For each of them pursuing music was a real commitment.

"I used to dirt bike to Nate's house," says Webster, the band's designated troublemaker and the one who can name off old blues rock guitarists as readily as he can All Time Low or The 1975. "I wasn’t old enough to drive so I bought a dirt bike. That’s how I got to band practice. I would literally go right down the road."

Brown bought his first drum set in grade seven. If you dig through his grade eight yearbook you'll see, even at that age, he lists his future occupation as "musician."

"You wouldn't think this would be our path, Jed and I took a huge risk moving out of our small town and heading to Toronto to pursue music." says Brown. “We literally slept on a basement floor for two years, working on music everyday. Towards the end of it, when we met Adrian, it was all three of us in there. We wrote so many of our songs in that basement apartment.”

What's clear through it all is that NEW CITY's sound is a genuine reflection of their interests. Brown's love of electronics and beats, Webster's guitar rock foundation, and Mitchell's deep appreciation for R&B/soul. It all comes together to make NEW CITY's feeling buzzed party pop.

"Our music is definitely for the weekend," says Mitchell. "As soon as five o'clock hits on Friday throw on our music and start partying because that's what people will think of as soon as they feel it."