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Grae - Black / White & Grey Marbled + Booklets

MOSES SUMNEY Grae (2020 US limited edition 20-track double album 2-LP pressed on 180-Gram Black, White & Grey Marbled Vinyl - Moses Sumney evades definition as an act of duty. To try to pin him downon a sound is to end up with a hand full of fog, but his genius is never allowing the set to sound like a hodgepodge. The songs on 'Grae' work 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. Including the singles Virile, Polly, Me In 20 Years, Cut Me, and Bless Me, the album features contributions from a wide range of musicians, writers and producers, including Daniel Lopatin [Oneohtrix Point Never], Thundercat, Jill Scott, James Blake and more. The gatefold picture sleeve has its hype-sticker affixed to the front and comes accompanied two individual picture / credit inners, two 11" x 11" lyric booklets plus a monochrome-printed clear PVC overlay while the two vinyl discs look barely played)

Price Info
$66.99, £49.99  
Product Availability Last copy in stock. Order now for shipping on Monday 25th August
Release Year 2020 - 5 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Jagjaguwar
Complete Stock List Go to Moses Sumney
Product Catalogue No JAG348LP-C3
Music Genre 00s Artists, Funk, Soul and r&b, Male Solo
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
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Tracklisting & More Information

Part 1
A1. Insula 0:47
A2. Cut Me 4:10
A3. In Bloom 3:03
A4. Virile 4:16
A5. Conveyor 3:24
A6. Boxes 1:22
A7. Gagarin 5:55
B8. Jill / Jack 1:33
B9. Colouour 3:08
B10. Also Also Also And And And 1:32
B11. Neither / Nor 5:27
B12. Polly 3:38

Part 2
C13. Two Dogs 3:38
C14. Bystanders 4:14
C15. Me In 20 Years 3:41
C16. Keeps Me Alive 2:56
C17. Lucky Me 4:57
D18. And So I Come To Isolation 0:49
D19. Bless Me 5:00
D20. Before You Go 2:063

Moses 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, græ, is an assertion that the undefinable still exists and dwelling in it is an act of resistance.

To try to pin Sumney down on a sound – and really, on any matter – is to end up with a hand full of fog, but his genius is never allowing the set to sound like a hodgepodge. His forthcoming double album expands upon the sonic universe built in Sumney’s critically-acclaimed debut LP Aromanticism and subsequent EP Black In Deep Red, 2014. The songs on græ may be divergent, like the visceral, Smashing Pumpkins drama of “Virile” and the intoxicated, outro jazz of “Gagarin.” There’s the kinky, ambiguous bop of “Cut Me” countered with the sweeping, amphitheater-ready “Bless Me.” 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. All of this is græ.

There’s probably a biblical analogy to be made about a person who just happens to be named Moses, who flees the binary, splits a massive body into two pieces, and leads us through the in-between – holy and wholly rebellious. By breaking up græ into two multifaceted, dynamic pieces, Sumney is quite literally creating a “grey” in-between space for listeners to absorb and consider the art. Not strictly singles, not strictly albums, never altogether songs or spoken word segments on their own. It’s neither here nor there. Neither/Nor, if you will.

DOUBLE LP  
Recording Artist Moses Sumney
Product Title Grae - Black / White & Grey Marbled + Booklets
Product Information Moses Sumney Grae - Black / White & Grey Marbled + Booklets USA 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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