PRYVT

Formed online in 2023, PRYVT met virtually and started making music together on a Discord server. Hailing from Vancouver, the two members came from strikingly different backgrounds: Hanuel was a child of pastors who grew up listening almost exclusively to worship music and old Korean ballads while Justin “JT” Tecson studied jazz in high school before discovering a passion for producing and DJing. By the time they connected on Discord, though, they shared a similar sense of burnout from their solo careers. In the months that followed, the duo would go on to release five singles, treating each as a chapter in a larger story, which they conveyed through their debut album &Scene. With little information available on the group, listeners began coming up with their own theories, examining the band’s social media for clues and spreading their music like wildfire. At times, the lyrics slip between English and Korean, but the emotions they convey transcend language, tapping into universal feelings of longing and desire, heartbreak and confusion, growth and acceptance. Last year, PRYVT performed alongside slchld and opened for wave to earth on their extensive North American fall tour.