Pvt

Australian trio PVT started as a quintet called PIVOT after being sued by an American band of the same name, they removed the vowels.

The bands released a couple of albums under the old moniker, but brothers Richard and Laurence Pike and Dave Miller (and his laptop) are about to release Church With No Magic, their first as PVT.

The sounds a chilly, mathy, deeply percussive mix of soaring and stuttered vocals, guitars, bass, drums (electro and otherwise), and mountains of keyboards. It feels sort of like Yeasayer gone Bladerunner. Or Battles on some kind of Coldplay kick. Instead of a studio, you get the sense it was put together in a looming shadowy factory.

See, for instance, the collections kinetic first single Widow and The Quick Mile, the spacier locked-groove anthem that follows it. We also have a listen of Crimson Swan, showcasing their more patiently paced, skewed-balladic dramatics.

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LINKS:

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://pvtpvt.net/

MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/pvt

WARP LABEL PAGE: http://warp.net/records/pvt

FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/pvtpvt