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Formats

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  WIGCD340CD  £10.00Expected 18th September 2015

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  WIGLP340Long Player  £20.00Expected 18th September 2015

Label

Domino

Bob Moses

Days Gone By

Occupying the fertile ground between organic band land and an all-electronic production project, Bob Moses draw on the two poles to vividly resonate across both. A duo with an individual name, Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance’s musical endeavor plays with this kind of duality all over Days Gone By. The album’s potency in solitude marks it out as a debut worthy of deeper scrutiny. A sound palette that combines the elegantly icy with an indelibly human touch,its Cologne techno rhythms in the bottom, the elegant otherly distance of Detroit in the middle, and an unmistakably earthly, almost jazzy textures in the top end, anchored by Howie’s softly suggestive voice that doesn’t dominate, but instead plays out as another instrument in an alluring mix.

Alternating between brooding dancefloor burners and moments of reflective, downbeat repose, Days Gone By is a record that’s not in a rush to get to its destination, preferring to subtly, slowly seduce rather than sway and swagger into submission, weaving a rich spectrum of sensation over the course of its ten tracks.

Tracklist

• 1. Like It Or Not
  2. Talk
  3. Before I Fall
  4. Too Much Is Never Enough
  5. Tearing Me Up
  6. Keeping Me Alive
  7. Nothing at All
  8. Days Gone By
  9. Writing On the Wall
  10. Touch & Go