NOVV / NASDAQ by Ivy Lab

A month on from the release of their ‘Suzuki’ / ‘Paradise Pistol’ single in March, London-based Gove and Jay (aka Sabre & Stray) are once again exploring some of bass music’s untrodden paths with their latest hybrid-drill offering.

‘NOVV’ is part lofi beats track, part overdriven fairytale. Ghostly folk leanings increasingly expand, eventually giving way to a celestial, all-enveloping extended outro. The instrumental drill experimentation found in their recently released track ‘Suzuki’ re-emerges in ‘NASDAQ’- this time shifting its rust-belt timbre from Detroit to Chicago as one-chord stabs, Gospel vocal cuts and spacious percussion meekly assert their mood. A midway turning point sees that patient march yield to sweeping arps and lavish textures, transforming the skeletal beat into a fuller-figured polyphony.

“There’s a real restlessness to our output at the moment, we’re unshackled and applying ourselves
to experimentation much more than ever” ~ Ivy Lab