‘Double Life’, the fourth Night Moves album and first in six years, is a cozy and cool LP built largely from a string of very rough breaks that singer John Pelant and Night Moves have navigated in recent years.
Pelant is the sort of songwriter who starts with the music - inspired of late by Glen Campbell and Bobby Caldwell, Cleaners from Venus and early 1990s country, Panda Bear and (as ever) Gram Parsons - and then writes lyrics only after he’s sat with the tune for a while. But this time, these songs are direct documents of Pelant’s life as he searches for silver linings or at least valuable meanings during a moment when very little seemed golden. ‘Double Life’ is about moving through, not moving on.
Pelant is the sort of songwriter who starts with the music - inspired of late by Glen Campbell and Bobby Caldwell, Cleaners from Venus and early 1990s country, Panda Bear and (as ever) Gram Parsons - and then writes lyrics only after he’s sat with the tune for a while. But this time, these songs are direct documents of Pelant’s life as he searches for silver linings or at least valuable meanings during a moment when very little seemed golden. ‘Double Life’ is about moving through, not moving on.
TRACK LISTING
Trying To Steal A Smile
Daytona
Hold On To Tonight
Almost Perfect
State Sponsored Psychosis
Ring My Bell
The Judge
White Liquor
The Abduction
This Time Tomorrow
Desperation
