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Special Moses Sumney In-Store Event Sept. 15

- August 27, 2024 -

Join Moses Sumney and Citizen Vinyl for a special FREE in-store performance on Sunday, September 15, at 5 p.m. This is a celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Moses’ first EP Mid City Island. Moses will be performing the entire EP from start to finish for the first time ever, and there will be a small quantity of the limited-edition vinyl (proudly pressed at Citizen Vinyl) available to purchase + have signed by Moses. Free to attend — RSVP required.

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Recorded in 2014, Mid-City Island is the first-ever project to be released from Moses Sumney. Moses recorded the entire EP from his apartment in Mid-City, Los Angeles, straight to cassette on a four-track recorder that TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek lent him.

To mark the 10-year anniversary of Mid-City Island, Moses kept good on a promise he made to himself all those years ago, broke and starting out — that he would press it to vinyl in a decade. 

Throughout his 10-year career, Moses Sumney has consistently evaded definition as an act of duty: technicolor self-directed videos and monochrome clothes; Art Rock and Black Classical; blowing into Fashion Weeks from a small town in North Carolina; seemingly infinite collaborators, but one staggering voice. Consistent across the worlds of music, fashion, and film is his assertion that the undefinable still exists and dwelling in it is an act of resistance.