Moses Sumney - between pop and experimental, in a world where intimacy offers sustenance and suffering

"A hypnotic songwriter, guitarist, and producer with a glassy falsetto and an immense vocal range, he exposes unlikely connections between pop and experimental, with songs that are rooted in knotty emotions" - Pitchfork writes in a long read about Moses Sumney, who released part one of his double album 'græ' today, (part two coming out May 15). The title "acts as a one-word summary. His interpretation of greyness is not just the kind of cloudiness that sometimes marks his temperament, but the kind that rejects binaries, that asserts that life is not lived in blacks or whites but in the gloriously complex in-betweens. The album is sprawling and yet tight, dense but accessible, an elevated version of the things that have become his signatures in recent years: artful lyricism, conceptual depth, playful vocals and melodies, unexpected sweeps of soundscape". Listen/watch 'Virile' below, and part one of 'græ' at Bandcamp.