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No More Like This

    ‘No More Like This’ explores themes of desire, play, devotion, submission, repetition, and reflection, framed around the idea of indentation… the lasting imprint that people and experiences leave on us. It calls out at dawn, reaching for the sky, with characters often caught between repression and release, floating on the surface of something greater.

    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?

    Sonically, the album blends trip hop, electronica, alternative, techno, and indie, drawing inspiration from artists like MF Doom, Massive Attack, and The Knife. This rich fusion creates a textured atmosphere that mirrors the themes of imprint and transformation.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Rain
    2. Enough
    3. Mate
    4. Send
    5. Anger Song
    6. Peel
    7. Boyface
    8. Flood
    9. Okay
    10. Moon

    “sitting in the terminal at Barcelona airport, health safety warnings echo through empty architecture. feeling slow, and fast, out of sync with rituals and routines. structure and rhythm disintegrate into micro gestures appearing in random order, a daily psychedelia... amid all of the chaos and distraction in the last few years, it’s only through letting go that I've found solid ground to stand on.”

    These are some of the experiences and reflections that gave shape to Slipstream, a hallucinatory mini-album by the artist PVAS and the fourth release on Objekt's label, Kapsela. Slipstream is an aural document of PVAS's interior life, conceived not as a grab-bag of DJ-friendly tracks (although it’s clearly inspired by the club) but as a single, delicately crafted artistic statement. The entire record is shrouded in a flickering haze, worn through by smudged breakbeats and wiry drum machines. “Wetland”, with its swampy percussion and crystalline arps, echoes T++ and Kraftwerk. The radiant incandescence of “Gathering Drift” recalls GAS or Monolake's “Hong Kong.” Sampled breakbeats dip and swerve asymmetrically through “Boba” and “Terminal”. Across the record, textures and voices are reshaped by PVAS's homemade algo-software, UMT, which, in PVAS’ own words, “reconstructs one audio file by sampling another, resulting in output that merges their aesthetic qualities, creating rhythm with non-rhythmic sound files and abusing the stereo field.” But the most striking union of technology and poetic self-exploration comes at the end of the record, in the title track, from words murmured through a classic vocoder:

    “when i stop framing myself as a boundaried stone
    immovable, and powerful, and heavy
    when i stop figuring my deepest space as my own
    something which i am solely responsible
    i surrender, i surrender”


    PVAS is Jordan Juras, a Berlin-based artist who grew up outside of Windsor, Ontario. He has released solo EPs on Isla and xpq?, and is half the duo NUG (3XL, West Mineral Ltd.). In addition to developing music software professionally, he has used his UMT software on records by Lyra Pramuk and Dylan Kerr. Slipstream was recorded from 2022 to 2025.

    Written and produced by PVAS
    Mixed by TJ Hertz
    Mastered by Anne Taegert at D&M
    Artwork and design by Brodie Kaman



    TRACK LISTING

    A1. Gathering Drift (Lattice Edit)
    A2. Terminal
    A3. Wetland
    B1. Ripped
    B2. Boba
    B3. Slipstream

    PVA

    Blush

      The eleven blistering tracks from the trio, made up of Ella Harris and Josh Baxter (who share lead vocals as well as handling synths, guitars and production) alongside drummer and percussionist Louis Satchell, are made from a formula of acid, disco, blistering synths, the release of the dancefloor and cathartic sprechgesang post-punk.

      On their debut album PVA carry that same energy from the live circuit, while also building out a holistic world full of texture and heart. 'Blush' is rich with industrial-sized beats that pack a heavyweight punch, jagged punk spirit, and moments of hushed contemplation from Harris’ poetic lyrics.

      It sprints tirelessly throughout, linking influences including Portishead, PC Music, Laurie Anderson, and cult rave-pop duo The Pom-Poms with ease. The album was produced by the band alongside friends Ben Romans-Hopcraft (Warmduscher) and Jamie Neville (Pumarosa) over a two week period at Neville’s home studio in South London. They then mixed the record at FOLD, the club hidden away on a trading estate in East London.

      One place intimate, another industrial; this is PVA’s world.

      TRACK LISTING

      A1. Untethered
      A2. Kim
      A3. Hero Man
      A4. Interlude
      A5. Bunker
      A6. Comfort Eating
      B1. The Individual
      B2. Bad Dad
      B3. Transit
      B4. Seven (feat. Tony Njoku) 


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