IVVVO – Dog

Label: Halcyon Veil – HALC021
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: Bassline, Abstract, Leftfield
Condition: Near Mint

IVVVO mounts an ambitious debut album for Rabit’s Halcyon Veil with ‘doG’, a 2LP of synth-driven panoramas painted in neon, riddled with rave tropes and rendered in hyperrealist, cinematic sound design, featuring crucial guest input on two highlights from Maxwell Sterling, a strong recommendation if yr into Lorenzo Senni, Arca, Rabit.

The follow-up to IVVVO’s ‘Good, Bad, Baby, Horny’ sees him unpackage and build upon that EP in all directions at once in a viscerally corporeal and sorely emotional salvo intended to be taken as his definitive opus to date. Across its 15 songs the London-based, Portuguese producer spells out a narrative as vividly hypermodern as a Nicolas Winding Refn flick but set in the fashionista underbelly of London, with crucial assistance on two of the album’s highlights coming from soundtrack composer and ‘Hollywood Medieval’ producer Maxwell Sterling.

A1. This Is Dog
A2. Life
A3. Untitled 4
A4. Never You
B1. 230518
B2. Double
B3. Forever Your Mouth
B4. New World
C1. Rush
C2. Last Days
C3. Face
D1. Punk
D2. Pearl
D3. Blade
D4. Yours Truly_