4 February 2026
Band:PVA
Who: A genre-hopping London trio, intuitively blending club music and
a smart pop sensibility with the more organic elements and instrumentation
of new-wave and post-punk.
Album: NO MORE LIKE THIS
Their 2nd.
Press info: “This record dives into repression as a dismissal of authenticity. It reflects on how we misremember and remain uncertain about what is true or real. Immersed in the waters of others’ wants, the album asks: What do we truly desire? How can we know what genuine want is?
The Quietus says: “No More Like This is a rippled watery reflection of PVA’s work so far – familiar yet distorted. Their prior releases, such as their (2020) EP Toner are echoed in the group’s continued musical exploration of queerness and the body. No More Like This is intelligent but not chin-stroke music.
No More Like This sees the familiar and unfamiliar shake
hands, like a hallucinatory introduction between friends.”
The disturbing artwork
TUTV: PVA mix trip-hop-pop and electro throbbings since they entered the scene
in 2017. They produce shadowdancing music to chill out to in the morning hours
after a night in the city. Several times I thought “Okay, here they go, decibels up” but
it doesn’t happen.
The distance between them and their fellow citizens Dry Cleaning is quite close.
Whispering vocals, velvety atmospherics, and bassy Massive Attack beats. After
a couple of spins, everything falls into place. This record is about daydreaming
at dawn while mysterious ghosts fill the room.
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