PVRIS Release New Singles; Sign To Hopeless Records

The project of Lynn Gunn and Brian MacDonald, PVRIS, has unveiled two new singles, Anywhere But Here and Animal.

The singles accompany the group's first short film directed by Jax Anderson and the news that PVRIS has signed to Hopeless Records.

Anywhere But Here and Animal couldn't showcase the duo's two sides of the same coin any better. The first is an ethereal track that somehow ebbs and flows beautifully into its punchy, aggressive sister in the latter.

About Anywhere From Here, Gunn shares, "At its core, Anywhere But Here is about wanting to escape your surroundings. My whole life I've always found myself restless and eager to be somewhere else. I always imagine existing in different times and different places; everywhere and anywhere but where I am in the moment, even the good moments. I think a lot of us experience that to some degree, a longing to be somewhere or with someone you can't necessarily identify."

Animal - co-created by Paper Route frontman JT Daly and rapper K. Flay - on the other hand, doesn't see the American pop-rock band longing for escape. Instead, PVRIS fight back: "Animal is all about defiance, breaking free of control whether it's from other people, or from ourselves. It can even be looked at through a wider lens and interpreted as defiance towards 'the man', government, or the algorithms that run our lives, that 'know us'. It's about challenging the identity the outside world chooses to give you. It's also a comment on fame and spectacle. I feel like we as a society are quick to dehumanise each other and hold people in fixed forms denying one another the opportunities to grow and evolve. I think this holds true especially those in any scale of a spotlight; artists, actors, influencers, models, athletes, politicians, etc… this can be true for personal relationships as well. We do each other a disservice by restricting one another to these metaphorical cages. Animal is about challenging that."

PVRIS has maintained a constant presence within the alternative pop-rock space since 2012. They have released three critically-acclaimed albums, with 2014's White Noise and 2017's All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell through Rise Records - the group were the first-female led signing to the label in 2014.

Their third album, Use Me, was released in 2019 through Warner Records and included the Marshmello feature and alternative radio hit, Hallucinations and numerous collaborations ranging from American hip-hop artist 070 Shake to British pop powerhouse Raye. 

Watch the short film below.