Eagles Lodge -upstairs
Wed: May 04, 2016
9:00 pm
That record was posted for free on Bandcamp and within weeks had generated so much adulation that London label Domino Recording Co. (Animal Collective, the Kills, Hot Chip) signed the band to a deal. The Minneapolis trio went back to the studio, touched up the mixes, and re-releasedColored Emotions to an eager national audience in 2013.
It was the kind of rise rock critics like to call “meteoric,” and even though the big-name blogs were lukewarm towardColored Emotions, Night Moves had cemented themselves as one of the buzziest bands out of the Twin Cities. After the album’s re-release, they toured with Lord Huron and Father John Misty. Locally, they were named Best New Band by City Pages, beating out fellow rocketeers Howler, who’d been snatched up by Rough Trade Records weeks before Night Moves’ own signing.
The narrative was simple and reiterable: cavalier slackers who got together, gave a nod to Bob Seger, and roughed up a bit of magic. But it couldn’t have been further from reality.
“We were making Colored Emotions for like two and a half years,” says frontman John Pelant, who’d been playing in bands with bassist Micky Alfano and then-keyboardist Mark Ritsema since high school. “People were like, ‘It sounds so polished for a first band,’ but that’s what happens when you don’t just shit out a record and you take your time.”
