Bob Moses

Electronic duo Bob Moses play a potent hybrid of house music and lyrical pop, fusing smooth vocals and guitar licks with club beats. Emerging in 2012 with a series of well-received EPs, the duo earned commercial and critical accolades, including a Grammy nomination for the single "Tearing Me Up" off their 2015 debut Days Gone By. Battle Lines followed in 2018, and the duo's third studio album, The Silence in Between, arrived in 2022.

Born and bred in Brooklyn, New York but with roots in Vancouver, Canada, the history of electronic duo Bob Moses is as curious as the cool house music outfit's name. Members Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie knew one another from the Vancouver high school they both attended, and were drawn to each other thanks to a shared love of pop-punk bands like Rancid and Green Day. Adulthood found them both in Brooklyn, with Vallance recording Berlin-styled techno while Howie worked in the realm of the singer/songwriter. Both felt musically stuck and hungered for something new, a problem solved by the simple union of their styles, which created something cool and decidedly "post-club." Named after the urban planner who designed the modern New York City, they became Bob Moses and joined the Scissor & Thread label in 2012 with the EP Hand to Hold. The Far from the Tree EP followed on the label in 2013, and a year later the group released the First to Cry EP on Domino.