Kevin Bronson on November 14th, 2019

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Moses Sumney has introduced his forthcoming double-album “Græ” (stylized “græ”) with the visually stunning video for “Virile.”

The onetime UCLA creative writing major who is now making his home in Asheville, N.C., makes his directorial debut in the wildly choreographed piece, of which he says: “In a post-human world, the last remaining man is caught between Beauty and Brutality’s battle to dominate the earth and his body.”

Spoiler: The lady bugs win.

The swirling tune finds the celestial-voiced artist as visceral as ever, though “Virile” probably qualifies as the hardest banger in his catalog. Not that anybody expected Sumney, who has done nothing but surprise (and defy categorization) since he debuted playing club shows in L.A. in 2013, to replicate the cosmic hymns on his 2017 full-length “Aromanticism.”

“Græ,” which is described as conceptual patchwork about greyness, will be released by Jagjaguwar in two parts — the first digitally in February and the second available on vinyl (with Side 1 in black and grey and Side 2 in white and grey) coming May 15.

||| Watch: The video for “Virile”

||| Previously: “Rank & File,” “Lonely World,” “Quarrel,” “Doomed,” “Everlasting Sigh,” “Seeds,” “Man on the Moon,” Ears Wide Open (2013)