Song of the Day: Bob Moses - Too Much Is Never Enough

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. This week's songs come during the 2015 Fall Fundraising Drive. Today's song is "Too Much Is Never Enough" by Bob Moses from the 2015 album Days Gone By on Domino.

Bob Moses - Too Much Is Never Enough (MP3)

Named for the NYC city planner, Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie's silvery electronic sounds build evocative, lively sounds that embody the sleepless, electric feel of the band's home city. While Bob Moses was formed in Brooklyn, the pair actually hail from Vancouver, British Columbia, where the pair met in high school and began their friendship. Coincedentally, they both ended up in New York a few years after graduating (Howie via a music career, Vallance via a now-defunct relationship), and began collaborating with each other as a way to escape their personal and professional frustrations. Merging Howie's singer/songwriter characteristics with Vallance's love of Berlin techno, Bob Moses' earliest output straddled the line between soundtracking the night out and soundtracking the morning after. Their early releases on Scissor & Thread in 2012 helped the band catapult towards the top of the crowded Brooklyn scene before being signed by Domino, who released a compilation of their EPs and their proper debut album, Days Gone By, this year. Although its namesake implies a degree of decadedance, "Too Much Is Never Enough" is quite the opposite: a track that layers its pieces in a cleverly swelling and shrinking manner that appeals equally to the heart as it does the feet. While the song's post-dubstep production drifts in and out of the foreground, Howie's voice drives the song with the same cathartic spirit that powers the best Chicago house divas, albeit in a cleverly understated tone. It would take longer than the song's five-minute runtime to analyze each clockworkpiece in "Too Much Is Never Enough", but more important than its byzantine construction is its ability to carve out a space exactly in between the club and the bedroom and magnetically draw the listener in to it.

Bob Moses just played Seattle as part of Decibel Festival 2015, but keep up with the band at their Facebook and website for any news on future shows or music. Below, watch the video for "Too Much Is Never Enough".