Moses Sumney

Black in Deep Red, 2014

This being my entry to Moses Sumney's music, this is a pretty good first impression. While I wish the EP was slightly longer, and wished that some musical ideas would have been developed further, this short EP get's me excited for where Moses is going next. Sonically it's a luscious and well constructed piece of jazz infused art-pop that have some of the best production i've heard in a while. It's eerie yet blissful, catchy yet artistic and very interesting to say the lest. However, the lyrical ... read more

Rank & File might be his best song. I wish the rest felt more essential to his catalog since there is only nine minutes of content here. It's over before I really feel much of an impact, but it does continually build towards its best moments.

We needed this. So powerful, and poignant, such imagery. Just one question though: why?

Step in a better direction to me...