In the vertigo of an era saturated with stimuli, where reality dissolves into digital echoes and desire is consumed by its own inertia, Starvving is not just an album: it is a manifesto. dvdv builds a universe where emotion is stretched to the limit and oscillates between industrial rawness and ethereal radiance, between collapse and ascension. Here, music is not a refuge but a threshold. A fleeting glimmer in the abyss, a scream suspended between glitch and dream.
The concept of Starvving had already touched us in February, when dvdv released an EP of the same name with three songs that functioned as an introduction to their sound universe. We were immersed in Chronic, a track that captures suffering, the search for freedom, and the body's struggle against imposed rules. Then came Your Lesson, where a hypnotic house rhythm drags us along as if we were inside a film. And the closing with USee left us facing the ephemeral and volatile character of reality, however crude it may be.
Now, with the arrival of the full album, Starvving expands its narrative in eleven new tracks. Don't try to pigeonhole it: this album is made for you to immerse yourself in its own chaos, to be the protagonist of your own distortion. The essence of dvdv is unmistakable; their generational concerns are still there and pulsate in tracks like Panic, which captures the mental loop of an overloaded mind begging for rest. Triumph reinforces this anxiety and, of course, the emotional helplessness that is all around us. And if you need a respite from the dizziness, Amnesty is the respite that offers a glimmer of hope, reminding us that, if only for a few minutes, it can all get better.
Starvving inhabits the tension between the ethereal and the industrial, between digital alienation and the yearning for connection. Its symbolism reinforces this clash: starvving, the fierce hunger for meaning, and star-wing, the fleetingness of existence, like a flash in the abyss. Through sonic and lyrical textures that deconstruct contemporary disorientation, dvdv not only translates chaos into art, but leaves open a crack through which light seeps. You don't listen to this album: you experience it. It is felt on the skin like a wound and a cure at the same time.
