moses sumney needs a thread, dammit!

I agree with ufo. An ambitious, complex, and often stunning confluence of pop, classical, jazz, r&b, and electronic. One of my favorite songs, "Colouour," has elements of all 5. I hear a lot of James Blake (a collaborator) and Thom Yorke: "boxes" recalls Amnesiac. I have tried to listen to this while working or reading, but this is music that commands my attention and sounds wholly different through headphones.

If I have a complaint, it's that I have not found myself wanting to play it much. Feels like an undertaking each time.

right? i'm not positive i really like it so much as i admire it. and to confirm, i'd need to listen to it again.
this would be a lot easier to determine if he was touring and i could hear it live.

yeah this guy is in one ear out the other territory for sure, overwrought and hookless

I guess I could have anticipated these reactions but really can't relate. Admiration requires distance, and this album's so close when it's playing. Also, it gives me so much energy, and requires fairly little.

crossposted from sufjan thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5vT6l-NDF4

Needs more Sumney, but its a nice enough Sufjan breathy vocal cut

that's from an EP where moses sumney got a bunch of people (including sufjan) to each cover "make out in my car"

wow I fucking love this album, it's just so dense and endlessly interesting. It's like Tales from Topographic Oceans but good?

He has a thing from the Proms on TV tonight and it's really very good, he did a version of Bjork's Come To Me which just blew me away.

Years late to him but have been diving in after reading this "things I like" feature:

On my radar: Moses Sumney’s cultural highlights https://t.co/tpy5f2oYuN

— The Guardian (@guardian) January 1, 2022

Oh, and looks like this hasn't been shared here yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX47qMIw_2o

oh i'd been meaning to get around to that, thanks for the reminder

these versions are really immense and muscular

the t-pain cover is a joy

Thanks for posting, as I'd forgotten about this and had meant to watch it

Beautifully shot, super unique, and many great performances. "Cut Me" was a highlight. Half the time I think this guy is on another level, making really inspired, interesting music. The other half I think his vocal phrasings are too complex, his songs too detached from traditional song structures, etc. Whole thing makes me think of Bjork.

finally watched Blackalachia, so great

Yeah. What I said over on Hype and Slander for your EOY nominations:

Some kind of Special Citation, Laurie Anderson Award, whatever you want to call it, should go to Moses Sumney, director and star ov film x album Live From Blackalachia, which takes place during a day and evening in the mountains of North Carolina---no audience, so no "How ya doin Blackalachia" etc., but you are there. A seven-piece band total, I think (three horn players eventually appear in the gloaming, all in good time), opening with what I think of as psych metal then losing me a little in second quarter diffusion of prog-associated balladry, but coming back strong and then some with the rest, incl. slow motion acrobatics of falsetto, my least favorite (and then some) form of singing--even got a little tired of it on prev. Sumney albums---but this is incredible, incl even some use of microtones? reminding me of Arthur Russell's cello bow at times---and visuals are totally appropriate at all times---meant to compare w audio-only, as usual, but this time I couldn't look away.
(Only thing comparable in recent years: The Chicks' Gaslighter, with commissioned videos by female directors for each track, but those are discrete, while this is seamless---despite cut-ins of "low-fi video," like it says in the credits, also times of day and evening can switch, never twitch.)

march 30 in brooklyn
https://www.bam.org/moses-sumney

with l'rain even

Yeah saw Hanif Abdurraqib tweet about his curated Music at BAM, which looks really great

https://www.bam.org/music-at-bam

i have tix to this and dawn, considering little simz which doesn't seem to be selling too briskly

unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to go to this (now sold out) Moses Sumney show with L'Rain at BAM in Brooklyn on Wednesday, March 30 at 8pm.
I got two balcony seats, would let them go for less than i paid for them if there are ILXORS who are into it?

https://www.bam.org/moses-sumney

MOSES SUMNEY ANNOUNCES LIVE CONCERT FILM, RELEASES BJÖRK COVER
A PERFORMANCE IN V ACTS ARRIVING NEXT WEEK

https://files.constantcontact.com/ce05d74a001/45834af4-5291-44a3-ba57-c20d5ce2892c.jpg?rdr=true

A Performance In V Acts (Trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYvAnYlgL0

Come to Me" (Björk Cover) & "Doomed" (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnOURBw6kXk

August 24, 2022) - Moses Sumney returns to announce A Performance In V Acts, a live concert film that captures his October 31, 2021 performance at the Ford Theater in Los Angeles, with a trailer and clip of him performing fan-favorite "Doomed" along with his cover of Björk's "Come to Me." The film, made possible in partnership with YouTube's Black Voices Fund, arrives in full next week on Wednesday, August 31st.

When sharing the film's trailer on Instagram, Sumney elaborated:

"A Performance in V Acts marks the official end of the græ album cycle. It's a capsule of our headline show since we will not be touring the album after all. This film also ushers in a new period of creativity for me – one in which I take a continued break from making albums and touring music to focus on other disciplines."

The film's announcement arrives on the heels of HBO announcing Sumney as a cast member on the The Idol, the forthcoming series created by Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye and Euphoria creator/director Sam Levinson. Sumney's announcement came this past Sunday when HBO formally shared the show's second official teaser on the heels of The Weeknd debuting it on Saturday evening during the Las Vegas stop of his After Hours Til Dawn tour.

Watch the trailer for A Performance In V Acts above now along with the performance of "Come to Me" and "Doomed," and turn on notifications via the bell at the trailer link to be alerted for the premiere.

Moses Sumney

A Performance V Acts

Tuntum

August 31st 2022

ACT I: Logos

insula

Virile

Conveyor

Quarrel

ACT II: Ethos

Colouour

In Bloom

Cut me

Bless me

ACT III: Pathos

Bystanders

Me in 20 Years

Gagarin

ACT IV: Pathos

Come to Me (Björk cover)

Doomed

ACT V: ENCORE

Plastic

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since we will not be touring the album after all.