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Moses Sumney’s Time Machine
This summer, he’s got music for ’90s R&B lovers and the movie MaXXXine for ’80s horror freaks.
After a productive writing trip to the cabin for his first EP, 2014’s Mid-City Island, he moved there full time, inspired by a lifelong love of folk music, Thoreau’s Walden, and what he describes as an “energetic reaction of my spirit to being in the mountains.” This show is the launch of what Sumney jokingly calls his “new sonic identity.” While his previous releases have explored the more esoteric side of his musical interests, Sophcore, the title of which is a play on the dying art of soft-core porn, is a purposeful move into making R&B. “This song is for sex,” he tells the crowd in the yard before performing “Hey Girl.” In a country-bumpkin voice, he cracks, “I’ve never had it, but I hope to someday do it.” He takes his dark sunglasses off for the breezy “Gold Coast,” which he says is his first public foray into Afropop after recording stuff with friends in Accra that’s still in the vault.
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