Elliot Moss + Laura Derover

From New York, Elliot Moss is both a visual artist and songwriter. The sweet melodies carried by his high-pitched, ashen voice, sometimes filtered by Auto-Tune (reminiscent of James Blake at times), blend into a housey, jazzy soul-synthpop, adorned with a few instruments played in real time — at least in the studio. Obviously, Moss knows the virtues of a songwriting hook, and moreover he knows how to deftly shift moods from one song to another. He also knows how to make good use of modular synthesizers, to fluff things up a bit. Following the gems he’s scattered to date, what‘s next for Moss? This Montreal concert should give us a few clues… In the same spirit, the very talented Laura Derover offers delicate synthpop, a little more complex than Moss’s, mixed with jazz and chamber music from the classical tradition. Listen carefully to this Dutch singer, who could turn out to be a discovery of 2020.

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