{"id":68337,"date":"2018-08-14T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=68337"},"modified":"2018-08-16T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T21:41:10","slug":"review-pvmnts-better-days-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-pvmnts-better-days-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: PVMNTS &#8211; Better Days EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-68565\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PVMNTS-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PVMNTS-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PVMNTS-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PVMNTS-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PVMNTS-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PVMNTS-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PVMNTS-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PVMNTS<\/strong> say they\u2019re for fans of Blink-182, State Champs and The Story So Far, and that\u2019s about as accurate as you\u2019re going to get. Forward thinking in sentiment but with the same frenzied, hurried sound of the pop-punk bands of fifteen years ago, EP &#8216;<em>Better Days&#8217;<\/em> bridges old skool scrappiness with the emotional side of their peers.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Another Monday&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>is charmingly unpolished and could easily be slotted into a \u201890s film. Every pop-punk band worth their salt had a cameo at a movie high school ball and this would have done the job nicely, with its inoffensive, upbeat style and simple chorus. It\u2019s nothing we haven\u2019t heard before, but does it really matter? They might be an unessential addition, but the melodic &#8216;<em>Heavy Moon&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>suggests there\u2019s a space for <strong>PVMNTS <\/strong>in among the ever-expanding pop punk repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>There are moments it doesn&#8217;t make sense, however. Lyrics like \u201c<em>I love you so much and I can still feel your touch\u201d <\/em>during &#8216;<em>Standing (On My Own Two Feet)&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>might be lapped up by fans but reach awkward levels of sentimentality. Singing <em>\u201cThanks to you I will be okay, now open the doors now on to better days\u201d <\/em>in a final soft, acoustic moment feels out of place in relation to &#8216;<em>White Walls&#8217;\u2019 <\/em>big chords and bouncing mosh pit chorus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"PVMNTS - Standing (On My Own Two Feet) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SKLk5AqLZY0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Barely allowing a moment to breathe, <strong>PVMNTS<\/strong> race through their six-track EP with ferocity. It could be a tricky listen were it longer and you need plenty of stamina to keep up, but it works in this shorter format. There are things that work: the energy, the nostalgia and the gravelly vocals of &#8216;<em>Hit The Ground&#8217;<\/em>, but there is plenty that you can find better elsewhere. Perhaps these pop-punk guys are set to get lost in the sea of similar sounding bands in the line up of any small festival. Hopefully, they can prove us wrong.<\/p>\n<p>3\/5<\/p>\n<p><strong>PVMNTS<\/strong>\u00a0links:\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pvmntsband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/u>\u00a0|\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pvmntsband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/u>\u00a0|\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pvmntsband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Better Days\u2019 EP\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0<strong>PVMNTS<\/strong>\u00a0is released on\u00a017th August.<\/p>\n<p>Words by Kathryn Black (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kathrynblack07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kathrynblack07<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PVMNTS race through their six-track EP with ferocity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":68338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2269,3],"tags":[5879,15747,15748,15743],"class_list":["post-68337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-ep-review","category-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-better-days-ep","tag-kathryn-black","tag-pvmnts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: PVMNTS - Better Days EP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PVMNTS race through their six-track EP with ferocity\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Review: PVMNTS - Better Days EP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PVMNTS race through their six-track EP with ferocity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-pvmnts-better-days-ep\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Already Heard Staging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlreadyHeard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-14T17:00:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-16T21:41:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pvmnts-1024x1024.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kathryn Black\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@kathrynblack07\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@alreadyhearduk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kathryn Black\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Review: PVMNTS - Better Days EP","description":"PVMNTS race through their six-track EP with ferocity","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Review: PVMNTS - Better Days EP","og_description":"PVMNTS race through their six-track EP with ferocity","og_url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-pvmnts-better-days-ep\/","og_site_name":"Already Heard Staging","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlreadyHeard\/","article_published_time":"2018-08-14T17:00:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-08-16T21:41:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pvmnts-1024x1024.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kathryn Black","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@kathrynblack07","twitter_site":"@alreadyhearduk","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kathryn Black","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-pvmnts-better-days-ep\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-pvmnts-better-days-ep\/"},"author":{"name":"Kathryn Black","@id":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/defee13052789b8002a7646d73094803"},"headline":"Review: PVMNTS &#8211; 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