NVDES

Formed in Los Angeles by musician and producer Josh Ocean, previously recognized as one half of Ghost Beach, NVDES functions as an experimental electropop endeavor. Ocean launched the project with a small circle of regular partners as an offbeat indie collective, issuing its first singles in 2015 starting with “Before the Weekend Comes” and continuing with “Fela,” “Don't Fvck Your Neighbor,” and “The Other Side.” Produced largely on laptops, the material draws from an expansive palette of electronic textures and approaches. The debut EP Life with Lobsters arrived at the end of 2016, after which the 2017 singles “Turning Heads,” “Do Ya Think About Me,” and “D.Y.T. (Do Your Thing)” appeared; the last of these, featuring vocals by Remmi, reached a broad audience after placement in an iPhone commercial. Those recordings were subsequently assembled as the follow-up EP Vol. 2. Several months afterward, the single “Louì” surfaced in March 2018.