PVA

PVA are steadily becoming more themselves – and this blossoming is truly something to behold. The trio’s debut album Blush crackled with the energy they’d honed through hard gigging: the swing, swagger and straight-up cool of its electro punk groove radiated joy in performance and confidence in operating as a unit. Its follow-up, No More Like This, though, is so much more. It’s still got all that energy, but uses it as a platform to explore art, intimacy, physicality. It manages to be both broader in creative scope – sound, lyrics and visuals fully integrated in an act of conscious world-building – and more emphatic of the fact that this is the sound of three real people with real lives outside of the stage and studio. It’s full of ideas, full of the complexities of living in the digital era, but it’s fundamentally about bodies in space and time.