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It was in the fall of 2014, after a grand jury decided not to charge the offending officer in the Mike Brown murder, delivering the verdict just in time for them to get home for Thanksgiving. I felt like a camouflaged outsider at the protest, like an anthropologist performing a study amongst his own kind. I took to the mountains soon after that and wrote these songs, wondering if power was a transferable device that could change hands through the vocalizing of unrest.\" Moses Sumney.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50498423882059,"sku":"1058239","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b0610fce-d79b-4bc5-88cf-b060b296bb9b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727747759"},{"product_id":"live-from-blackalachia","title":"Live From Blackalachia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLive From Blackalachia\u003c\/i\u003e is a live album and movie composed of dynamic band arrangements from Moses Sumney’s first two albums. 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I sat on my bedroom floor and wrote “Plastic.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout his 10-year career, Moses Sumney has\nconsistently evaded definition as an act of duty:\ntechnicolor self-directed videos and monochrome\nclothes; Art Rock and Black Classical; blowing into\nFashion Weeks from a small town in North Carolina;\nseemingly infinite collaborators, but one staggering\nvoice. Consistent across the worlds of music,\nfashion, and film is his assertion that the undefinable\nstill exists and dwelling in it is an act of resistance.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TunTum","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50531430859083,"sku":"2204956","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000_x_2000_RGB_MCI_ALBUM_ART_c5cc71ef_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728108435"},{"product_id":"grae","title":"gr","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoses Sumney evades definition as an act of duty: technicolour videos and monochrome clothes; Art Rock and Black Classical; blowing into Fashion Week from a small town in North Carolina; seemingly infinite collaborators, but only one staggering voice. A young life spent betwixt Southern California and Accra, Ghana — not so much rootless as an epyphite, an air plant. The scale is cinematic but the moves are precise deeds of art and stewardship. Sumney’s new, generous album, \u003ci\u003egræ\u003c\/i\u003e, is an assertion that the undefinable still exists and dwelling in it is an act of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs on \u003ci\u003egræ\u003c\/i\u003e may be divergent, like the visceral, Smashing Pumpkins drama of \u003ci\u003eVirile\u003c\/i\u003e and the intoxicated, outro jazz of \u003ci\u003eGagarin\u003c\/i\u003e. There’s the kinky, ambiguous bop of \u003ci\u003eCut Me\u003c\/i\u003e countered with the sweeping, amphitheater-ready \u003ci\u003eBless Me\u003c\/i\u003e. But there’s that voice, always unknowable and penetrating, threading these pieces together: a heavenly rasp, a whale call, Miles' horn, a soulful snarl. It all works to create a paradox, keeping art and artist somewhere between any one sure thing — but surely something that demands your attention affixed and your breath bated. 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