NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
“Atonal abhorrence.” “Industrial post-club chaos.” “Music to listen to when you’re pissed off.” These are PVA’s own terms, and they point toward a sound that resists easy categorisation. The South London trio—Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and Louis Satchell—sit somewhere between post-punk minimalism and club-derived electronics, never fully committing to either.
Their latest LP, No More Like This, released in January 2026, offers no resolution. On ‘Okay’, a stubborn TR-303 bass line sustains an acid edge; on ‘Send’, Satchell’s acoustic drum kit is pushed and processed beyond recognition into club-ready samples. Organic textures and guitar loops ground downtempo tracks like ‘Boyface’ and ‘Anger Song’ in Bristol’s trip-hop underworld. Deadpan vocals, mechanical rhythms and a dark, tense, highly textured atmosphere bridge the band’s volatile influences. Each element feels familiar in isolation, yet PVA consistently assemble them into intricately produced collages that feel new with each iteration—“taking elements from genres and seeing how they fit together,” as Harris told Dazed in 2019.
EMBRACING MISTAKES
The density and physicality of PVA’s sound delayed their recorded output for nearly three years after forming at a house party in 2017. Dan Carey, the producer behind some of the most vital UK records of recent years, enabled them to translate the “bodily chaos” of their live performances onto wax. His process—embracing mistakes as “what makes tracks feel raw and visceral”—aligned naturally with a band whose sound was honed in live settings. The resulting single, Divine Intervention, released on tastemaker label Speedy Wunderground, set the tone for a discography resistant to compromise.
INTEGRITY IN MOTION
PVA remain structurally attached to experimentation and to the underground that produced them, despite signing debut LP Blush to Ninja Tune and receiving a Grammy nomination via Mura Masa’s remix of ‘Talks’. Blush was an album-length statement; No More Like This, produced by Kwake Bass, pushes that logic further. Shaped in sweat-heavy sessions the band describe as “dancing in the studio” or “playing, messing around [and] making wacky computer sounds”, the record deepens their cross-pollination of genre and instrumentation. When asked to expand on their idea of “atonal abhorrence”, Satchell described it as a “total disregard for what normally treats our ears”—less a provocation than a consistent method. Self-directed visuals and a persistent DIY ethic reinforce a project less interested in virality than in artistic integrity.
PVA LIVE ON REVOLUTION 9
PVA bring that tension off the record and onto the stage on 7 March at Le Petit Bain in Paris, as part of the European tour accompanying No More Like This. A live performance filmed by REVOLUTION 9 and retransmitted on our channel.
Tracklist
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Rain
Enough
Peel
Hero Man
Anger Song
Boyface
Mate
Untethered
Okay
Moon
Discography
