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Ovlov

American rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ108898614
Source-derived summary

Ovlov is an American alternative rock band from Newtown, Connecticut.

History

Ovlov began in 2009, choosing a band name that is an inversion of the Swedish car brand, Volvo. That same year, they released an EP titled Crazy Motorcycle Jump. They followed that up with another EP in 2011 titled What's So Great About The City. In 2013, Ovlov released their first full-length album on Exploding in Sound titled Am. In August 2014, Ovlov released a split with Little Big League. Two months later, the band released a split with Krill, LVL UP, and Radiator Hospital. In 2018, Ovlov released their second full-length album on Exploding in Sound titled Tru. Ovlov released their third full-length album, Buds, in 2021.

Style

Ovlov's songs have been characterized as "melancholy" and are said to fuse "the overloaded guitar attack and rhythmic power of vintage Dinosaur Jr.

Editorial summary

“Ovlov” enters the record as american rock band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ovlov, American and rock can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2011, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ovlov, American and rock.
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Why this record matters

“Ovlov” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ovlov, American and rock provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108898614. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Ovlov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.