Have you seen the filth and grit on the electric cars of Paris? Bodily fluids on the back seats. No one cleans them. Beacons of a new era sat plugged into the street little more than rental gunmetal shells that someone's pissed in. Or the moth infested wind turbines of Bavaria? Beautiful, cumbersome, monoliths – today's clean energy generators, dominating classical landscapes now unrecognisable from their painted counterparts.
We've all heard the poisoned dialogue between the heavy left and right feet of political power. A blindfolded dawdle. To them forward is a waste of money. Forward is fake. Make believe. A shiny distant myth better left for another time. Why move on from what's still generating warm, sweaty money? Still, it's important to note these icons of progress. These green, contrary attempts at escape. They're the future. Our future isn't going to be polished glass and white surfaces. It's going to be dirty.
And the worst kind of grime won't be the kind you find when they drain the lake. It'll be in the air. In the words we use. In the dismissal of truth and history for the sake of a stomachable narrative.
With that in mind, I present to you - New Spirit - the latest record by PVT.
PVT are international, though they're known as Pivot to anyone in the know. They're an act that's embraced technology at every turn - gritty, new, confronting - and their uncompromised songwriting and musical understanding have seen their first four albums released to global acclaim. They've been all over, both on their own steam and in the support of acts like The Arctic Monkeys, Gary Numan, Warpaint, Bloc Party, and Gotye. After years of touring, the band wound up cast far and wide residing each in a different continent. Men of the world. Seasoned campaigners.
Releases:
New Spirit
FLT-038
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Homosapien
FLT-007
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Vertigo
FLT-006