PVA describe their sound as “country-fried techno” though that’s probably not how you or I would describe them at first listen.

The South London trio defy easy categorisation with their fusion of
post-punk, industrial and dance music, and dreamy vocals with poetic, poignant lyrics.

Then again, it’s exactly the kind of term you’d expect from a group who paid their dues on the Windmill scene alongside bands like Squid, Goat Girl and Fat White Family, Black Midi and Black Country New Road.

The music made by Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and drummer Louis Satchell is filled with contradictions: tension and release, disillusion and defiance, alienation and intimacy, darkness and joy.

This new tune, Enough, creates a claustrophobic atmosphere that’s emphasised by the sinister but sensual video, in which Harris purrs: “Fix me, white knuckles on my skin… I don’t get much / But I get enough.”

PVA recorded their 2019 debut single Divine Intervention with producer Dan Carey at his Streatham studio, Harris deadpanning the vocals over electroclash vibes – later remixed by Gum & Ginoli.

They followed it with the Toner EP, spawning the more straightforward funk-soul single Talks, whose remix by Mura Masa was nominated for a Grammy award in 2022 – with a complementary Dub Version.

When lockdown forced the cancellation of a Japanese tour and SXSW, the trio pursued separate projects while working in parallel on their debut album, Blush, which captured the fraught tension of the pandemic.

Harris, who has a parallel career as a photographer and visual artist, wrote poetry, brushed up on her production skills and worked on solo material as Lime Zoda.

She also put together the Group Therapy Vol.1 compilation, featuring Porridge Radio and Sorry among others, to raise money for the The Music Venue Trust and NHS Charities Together.

Baxter, meanwhile, served as a producer for other artists and Satchell studied African polyrhythms at City University while also teaching drumming to local youngsters.

Second album No More Like This followed in September 2025, and represented an evolution into a moodier, more atmospheric sound. Where once they created drama through density and volume, they now use textures rather than loud distortion, with Harris’s ghostly vocals creating an unsettling hallucinatory effect.

The album was precded by this compelling video for lead single Boyface, and channelling a more sensual, experimental approach with elements of trip-hop.