Moses Sumney

Sex stories, purgatory and Adele’s tears: the album skit is back

Keen to re-establish the album in the age of the playlist, artists are peppering their work with voice notes and sketches – to profound and annoying ends

Tara Joshi

14, Feb, 2022 @12:00 PM

On my radar: Moses Sumney’s cultural highlights

The singer-songwriter on Balenciaga’s visions, the mountains of North Carolina, and the haunting power of Eve’s Bayou

Kathryn Bromwich

01, Jan, 2022 @3:00 PM

Kitty Empire's best music of 2020

Our critic’s picks, from righteous old-school hip-hop via euphoric retro pop to classic American songwriting

Kitty Empire

27, Dec, 2020 @8:00 AM

The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list

Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting selection for a turbulent year

Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes

18, Dec, 2020 @8:07 AM

Guardian albums and tracks of 2020: how our writers voted

We’ve announced our favourite releases of the year – now the Guardian’s music critics reveal their individual top picks of 2020

Guardian music

18, Dec, 2020 @6:00 AM

'Oh cool, I don’t have to put on pants!' Stars on music's year of chaos

Phoebe Bridgers, Danielle Haim, Lianne La Havas, Declan McKenna, Rina Sawayama and Moses Sumney discuss Black Lives Matter, WAP, TikTok, the collapse of live music and more

Alexis Petridis

11, Dec, 2020 @6:00 AM

The 50 best albums of 2020, No 10: Moses Sumney – Græ

Sumney’s playful, genre-splicing second album showed a man determined to present life in all its richness and contradiction

Ammar Kalia

07, Dec, 2020 @6:00 AM

On my radar: Moses Boyd on his cultural highlights

The jazz drummer on the podcast, album and local vegan cafe that helped him through lockdown. Plus, a properly geeky YouTube series

Jude Rogers

18, Jul, 2020 @2:00 PM

Moses Sumney: Græ Part Two review – introspective magic

Sumney’s “art rock and black classical” double album concludes with quieter highs

Kitty Empire

10, May, 2020 @8:00 AM

Moses Sumney: Græ review – double album’s stunning first instalment

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Kitty Empire

01, Mar, 2020 @9:00 AM

‘I definitely rage against being classified as R&B’: the strange, beautiful music of Moses Sumney

His celestial falsetto and otherworldly sound have bewitched everyone from Stephen Colbert to Solange. Now, his second album is about to send him stratospheric

Sheldon Pearce

29, Feb, 2020 @10:00 AM