The genre descriptor “dawk,” or “DAW-based rock,” is compelling because it combines two conflicting terms. It was coined by friends& , a Canadian blogger-musician who really likes coining things, and whose label, dawk26, doubles as a conceptual testing ground. “ Laptop twee ,” its most lucrative cultural export, is loopy and wonderfully giddy, running 2000s indie-pop through Ableton plugins and plotting a rave in Purble Place . But like “dawk,” it is also conceptually split, with a rich central tension between what is being performed, and by whom: childlike innocence by adults who long for it back. At best, that friction breeds not only generational ambiguity, but a sort of bidirectional bliss. In this zany Neverland, the club floor is not littered with beer cans, nor bodily fluids: It is strewn with discarded DSi styluses, sticky with apple juice.…