Bob Moses

One Liner: Chilly electro that sure seems out of place at ACL

Poster Position: 10

Thoughts: Two dudes, based in Brooklyn, but both from the same Vancouver high school. The group is named after the urban planner who designed modern New York City (which is a cool factoid).  The music is super chilled electronic stuff - the Spotify bio calls it "post club," which is a weird term, but I guess means the music you go home and smoke the dopes to after you leave the tight club party.  The tunes themselves kind of remind me of a Coldplay dub remix you would hear on 101X on Sunday morning's Chillville show.  This is all very outside of my musical zone - I've never even heard of the ten "Related Artists" on Spotify for this group.

They've got two albums (2015's Days Gone By and 2015's All in All), and then some singles. The most popular track is from Days Gone By, "Tearing Me Up," which has 3.5 million listens in its original form, and then 818k for the radio edit and 768k for an RAC remix.  Those tracks are the number 1, 4, and 5 songs in their most popular listing.  Here is the radio edit.

Catchy tune, pretty relaxing, although I really can't imagine the vibe of watching this music in a live environment.  Seems like it would be good while you are waiting in line at the W to go to the bathroom, but in a huge crowd on a hot September afternoon?  Seems weird. Here is the most listened-to track on Spotify, also from Days Gone By, called "Too Much is Never Enough."

4.8 million listens.  So these guys are not some nobody band no one has ever heard of who somehow made it to the 10th line of the poster, and their music is nice enough, but I don't get it as a big festival draw.  Here is one more track, just because I liked the sound of this one enough to look up from my work and bob my head a little.  This is "Talk," also from that same album.