Bob Moses
'Days Gone By' (Domino Records)
8/10
It's hard to think of anyone who walks the line between electro-pop and deep dancefloor grooves quite as coolly as Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance, aka Bob Moses. The Brooklyn-based Canadians came to prominence on New York house label Scissor & Thread. While suited to that label's smouldering, late-night mood, here Howie and Vallance – guitars often to the fore – are much more of a 'band'. They develop that organic pop/smart house sound on 'Touch', all lazy, cotton-wool vocals, big chords and snapping rhythms, and the bubbling classical/electro-pop of 'Like It' and 'Bob Moses' are highlights in an LP of grown-up electronica that – like John Grant's 'Pale Green Ghosts' – boasts song-writing with serious crossover potential.
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