Stream: Moses Sumney, ‘Rank & File’

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Moses Sumney (photo by Ibra Ake)

Moses Sumney has a new release on the way, “Black in Deep Red, 2014,” a three-track EP titled after a 1957 Mark Rothko painting, coming Aug. 10 via Jagjaguwar. This latest EP follows May’s “Make Out in My Car: Chameleon Suite,” another short release that featured remixes of 2017 “Aromanticism” single “Make Out in My Car” by James Blake, Sufjan Stevens and Alex Isley.

First single “Rank & File” has been a memorable part of Sumney’s live show for the past few years and finally now we can take it home and snuggle with it in the dark. Sumney says the EP was prompted by an experience of a political event, “the first and last time I attended a protest,” he says. “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.”

||| Stream: “Rank & File”

||| Previously: “Lonely World,” “Quarrel,” “Worth It,” “Everlasting Sigh,” “Seeds,” “Man On The Moon,” Ears Wide Open