CD reviews: Night Moves

A follow-up to Minneapolis rock quintet Night Moves’ 2016 sophomore album, Opened Days, this EP clearly is intended as a place-holder before a new full-length effort is completed, yet it nonetheless offers an interesting side-trip.

In the world of Night Moves, slinky rhythmic grooves grind against fluid synthesiser phrases and electric guitars float on waves of reverberation, all of which provides an unstable foundation over which John Pelant’s vocal delivery touches on ethereal, shoe-gazing obscurity (Drum Test), stadium-rock anthems (ala the title track) and big, fat, 1980s-era AM radio rockers (Lovely, Lately).

• Night Moves. Carl Sagan (EP). Domino. 

• Three and a half stars (out of five)

Single download: Carl Sagan
For those who like: Mercury Rev meets Todd Rungren 

— Shane Gilchrist