In an age of accelerated living, where disconnection has become the norm and noise constantly threatens to drown out authenticity, STARVVING arrives not just as an album, but as a form of emotional resistance. The collaborative project between dvdv and producer Poly Armour is a visceral, dreamlike meditation on what it means to survive, to feel, and to connect in a world that increasingly asks us to numb ourselves.
Emerging from the tension between vulnerability and resilience, STARVVING threads together industrial pulse and celestial harmonies, crafting a sonic universe where chaos and grace intermingle. This is not merely experimental pop—it is an odyssey of the spirit, shaped by aching beauty and raw desire.
The album’s name speaks volumes: “Starving” conveys the deep, almost desperate hunger for connection, for something real. Meanwhile, “Star-wing” evokes the poetic image of fleeting transcendence—a fallen angel, a comet streaking through darkness, a pop star burning brilliantly, if briefly. These dualities define the record: ethereal and grounded, hopeful and haunted, brutal and tender.
Throughout, the music oscillates between dense layers of digital texture and sudden ruptures of organic light. dvdv’s voice floats like a ghost in a dream, at once pleading and prophetic, a vessel for words that ache to be heard. Poly Armour’s compositions ebb and crash like emotional tides—at times mechanical and precise, at others crumbling into ambient ruins. It is music that grips, seduces, and ultimately dissolves.
At its core, STARVVING is about survival—not just the physical act of existing, but the emotional and spiritual act of staying awake in a world that demands detachment. It explores themes of mental illness without sensationalism, portraying inner struggle with lyrical sophistication and sonic boldness. Imagination becomes the means of both escape and revelation—a way back to oneself.
Connection—both inward and outward—is the thread that binds this record. It’s the dream that pulls us from numbness into recognition, the soft rebellion against the numbing effect of digital overstimulation. The album is an invitation to feel more, not less. To sit with discomfort. To breathe into the unknown.
The journey of dvdv and Poly Armour began in 2018 with the single “Disbelief,” and gained momentum with their 2020 hit “Overheaded,” which topped Beatport’s Best New Electronica Playlist. Two EPs followed, layering harder-edged sonics and raw textures into a foundation that would eventually bloom into the lush, emotionally charged soundscape of STARVVING.
The philosophical undercurrent of the album is unshakable. “Imagination is thought, which is matter,” reads the quote accompanying the release—a reminder that emotion, thought, and sound are not ephemeral; they’re tangible forces that shape our realities. This album feels like matter vibrating—carrying all the weight, urgency, and beauty of the human experience.
At the heart of STARVVING is dvdv, the audio/visual moniker of multidisciplinary artist Phyllis Josefine. Her work explores immersion—whether into the inner self or the fluid boundary between physical and digital realities. With each release, she refines her craft and deepens her artistic inquiry, blending music, coding, textile art, and performance into a singular voice of quiet defiance and radical imagination.
From her debut interactive album ai am to the haunting cyber-dreamscapes of What is the opposite of ambivalence (2021), dvdv has consistently explored liminality—those ghostlike spaces between memory, feeling, and form. Her textiles shimmer with reflective paint, transforming secondhand materials into wearable phantoms. Her music, too, feels lived-in and alchemical: art made of residue, reverie, and reclamation.
Her creative output extends to film scores, visual installations, and international exhibitions. She composed the original soundtrack for Joseph Delaney and Alice Donaghy’s Aro Archive, contributed 3D animation and sound design to Susanne Steinmassl’s The Future Is Not Unwritten, and has performed at venues such as Barcelona’s Eufonic, Institut Français in Kuwait, and Munich’s Deutsches Museum. Nominated for the ROY Pop Prize in 2018 and selected for the Berlin Music Video Awards in 2022, her work is consistently boundary-pushing and deeply human.
In STARVVING, Poly Armour matches that energy with soundscapes that defy expectation. His production is a shape-shifting organism—part dancefloor melancholy, part emotional exorcism. Tracks breathe, break, and bloom, mirroring the volatility of the age we live in. Nothing is static. Everything is felt.
The album is structured like a cinematic arc—rising and falling in waves of revelation. There are no easy answers, no neat resolutions. Only movement, transformation, and the slow peeling back of illusion. The final moments offer something close to grace: a dissolving into ambient textures, voices fading like ghosts, the memory of something sacred just beyond reach.
Released on February 22, 2025, STARVVING is not just an album—it’s an event horizon. It dares to ask: what happens when we feel everything? What happens when we stop running from ourselves? The answer, perhaps, is found in that fragile moment of recognition—when we realize we’re not alone in our longing.
This is music for the dreamers, the survivors, the star-wings soaring through dusk. A fleeting connection, but no less real for its brevity.
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