Recorded in 2014, Mid-City Island is the first ever

project to be released from Moses Sumney. Moses

recorded the entire EP from his apartment in

Mid-City, Los Angeles straight to cassette on a

four-track recorder that TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek

lent him.

To mark the 10 year anniversary of Mid-City Island,

Moses kept good on a promise he made to himself all

those years ago, broke and starting out - that he

would press it to vinyl in a decade.

Reflecting back on that period, Moses says

"Mid-City, Los Angeles was more of a concept than a

place. Seemingly nobody had ever heard of it, and

yet it was the geographic center of the city. Living

there felt analogous to my disposition as a "rising"

Angeleno - highly visible and invisible at the same

time. I sat on my bedroom floor and wrote "Plastic."

Throughout his 10-year career, Moses Sumney has

consistently evaded definition as an act of duty:

technicolor self-directed videos and monochrome

clothes; Art Rock and Black Classical; blowing into

Fashion Weeks from a small town in North Carolina;

seemingly infinite collaborators, but one staggering

voice. Consistent across the worlds of music,

fashion, and film is his assertion that the undefinable

still exists and dwelling in it is an act of resistance.