Bob Moses – Days Gone By (Never Enough Edition)

When NY house twosome Bob Moses originally dropped Days Gone By late 2015, heads were turned. It was clear its constituent musicians – Canadian-born Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance – were channelling decidedly non-house influences, with conspicuous guitar lines and moody, leather-jacket-clad alt-pop songwriting, but playing it all out on a woozy four-to-the-floor beat.  

Days Gone By (Never Enough Edition) is an expanded 2016 re-release, with vinyl bonus tracks and a clutch of remixes. It’s worth it just to revisit Howie’s half-lidded, too-cool-for-school vocal, its wounded storytelling (like the bittersweet Before I Fall) the airy counterpoint to Vallance’s humid, languorous arrangements (most tropical on Talk and the sweaty opener Like It Or Not).

The bonus tracks (particularly Here We Are, a heady guitar-plus-birdsound ballad) rightly build on this, but offer little variation to their dusky low-tempo template. Ideal if this is your jam and you’d missed the first release; disappointing if you were hoping for richer fruits.