I first stumbled across PVC at 226 Gallowgate during Eyezzz of the Orb, a stripped-back all-dayer where their set cut through the noise as a standout of the evening.
Formed in Glasgow in 2023, with members from Ireland and England, they’ve already carved a niche on the city’s live circuit.
‘Lucky Kennels’ opens with a taut, needling guitar line before bass and drums lock into place, tight and tense. The vocals don’t bark or belt; they lean in, carrying a coiled intensity.
PVC cast their characters as dogs: alert, restless, unwilling to heel. The metaphor runs beyond canine imagery, pointing to the quiet ways people are contained and overlooked. Instead of playing victim, it bares its teeth in small, deliberate gestures.
As the track unfolds, ‘Lucky Kennels’ cycles through angst and reflection, anger and defiance, but never loses control of its frame.
What begins wiry and wound-up edges into dreamier textures, harmonies bleeding in, until it all snaps back with the band howling into the void. It doesn’t feel resolved and that’s the point.
