Since emerging onto the scene in 2014, Moses Sumney has ridden a wave of word-of-mouth praise, hushed recordings, and dynamic live performances. It's an organic, patient ascent all too rare in today's musical climate. In a voice both mellifluous and haunting, Sumney makes future music that transmogrifies classic tropes, like moon-colony choir reinterpretations of old jazz gems. His vocals narrate a personal journey through universal loneliness atop otherworldly compositional backdrops.
Following the self-release of his debut cassette EP, Mid-City Island, and 2015's 7", Seeds/Pleas, Sumney has performed around the world alongside forebears like David Byrne, Karen O, Sufjan Stevens, Solange, James Blake and more. With his 2016 Lamentations EP, The California and Ghana-raised troubadour widened the spectrum of his heretofore "bedroom" music, incorporating songs that feature more elaborate production and evocative songwriting. Now his inspired ascent continues.
His proper debut album, Aromanticism is a concept album about lovelessness as a sonic dreamscape. It seeks to interrogate... more
[Chorus 1] Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
[Verse 1] I’m not a body, the body is but a shell I disembody but suffering is sovereign Still no grasp of reality The world is a wonderland scene I don’t know what we are But every cell in the corpus resembles stars Signal into the sky God sings to me in reply
[Chorus 1] Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
[Verse 2] I’m not somebody, somebody would savor us You need a solid, but I’m made of liquid Trust in me, I am the son of the sea And I’ll call you when I feel finally free I don’t know what we are But all I know is I can’t go away with you with half a heart
[Chorus 2] Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you Don’t bother asking for the truth Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
Since emerging onto the scene in 2014, Moses Sumney has ridden a wave of word-of-mouth praise, hushed recordings, and dynamic live performances. It's an organic, patient ascent all too rare in today's musical climate. In a voice both mellifluous and haunting, Sumney makes future music that transmogrifies classic tropes, like moon-colony choir reinterpretations of old jazz gems. His vocals narrate a personal journey through universal loneliness atop otherworldly compositional backdrops.
ResponderEliminarFollowing the self-release of his debut cassette EP, Mid-City Island, and 2015's 7", Seeds/Pleas, Sumney has performed around the world alongside forebears like David Byrne, Karen O, Sufjan Stevens, Solange, James Blake and more. With his 2016 Lamentations EP, The California and Ghana-raised troubadour widened the spectrum of his heretofore "bedroom" music, incorporating songs that feature more elaborate production and evocative songwriting. Now his inspired ascent continues.
His proper debut album, Aromanticism is a concept album about lovelessness as a sonic dreamscape. It seeks to interrogate... more
released September 22, 2017
[Chorus 1]
ResponderEliminarDon’t bother calling, I’ll call you
Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
[Verse 1]
I’m not a body, the body is but a shell
I disembody but suffering is sovereign
Still no grasp of reality
The world is a wonderland scene
I don’t know what we are
But every cell in the corpus resembles stars
Signal into the sky
God sings to me in reply
[Chorus 1]
Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
[Verse 2]
I’m not somebody, somebody would savor us
You need a solid, but I’m made of liquid
Trust in me, I am the son of the sea
And I’ll call you when I feel finally free
I don’t know what we are
But all I know is I can’t go away with you with half a heart
[Chorus 2]
Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
Don’t bother asking for the truth
Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
Don’t bother calling, I’ll call you
[Outro]
Well, I tried