MOSES SUMNEY – Mid-City Island EP (10 Year Anniversary Edition w/ Bonus Track) – 12” – Vinyl

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12” EP – Limited 10 Year Anniversary Edition with Bonus track. First-ever vinyl pressing of Moses Sumneys debut EP, Mid-City Island on classic black vinyl. Only 1,000 copies pressed in this edition.

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 Radios 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.

Reflecting back on that period, Moses says Mid-City, Los Angeles was more of a concept than a place. Seemingly nobody had ever heard of it, and yet it was the geographic center of the city. Living there felt analogous to my disposition as a rising Angeleno highly visible and invisible at the same time. I sat on my bedroom floor and wrote Plastic.

Throughout his 10-year career, Moses Sumney has consistently evaded definition as an act of duty: technicolour 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.

Tracklist:

1. Outro
2. Man on the Moon
3. Mumblin’
4. Plastic
5. San Fran
6. Insular Peninsula