Samuel Geddes, based in Magandjin/Brisbane, and Alistair Seawright, living in Naarm/Melbourne, combined their songwriting talent just earlier in 2025, developing the first demos from shared Google drives and exchanged audio files from their respective cities. After an intensive few days in a makeshift studio with Jye Geltch (Jye, Soft Porn), their darkwave post-punk project truly took concrete form. With ferocious sincerity, mtv was born; the first song they wrote together while being in the same room.