“There must be darkness in order for light to

have meaning. All pain is porous, like a

decrepit ceiling with holes that let little

manicured lazer beams of sunlight in. I

like to think those sunbeams are the joy

and if you roll around on the floor enough

maybe you can shower in it.“

In his prodigious sophomore album græ,

Moses Sumney states: “I insist upon my

right to be multiple”. As both a personal

meditation or public rebellion, it feels like

a reclamation of the nuance of human

existence in a world quick to reduce us

to neat labels, an idea he explores further

in an essay titled ’New Growth’ for our

Winter issue. Introduced by Michaela Coel,

Sumney reflects on the duality of dark and

light, good and bad, growth and loss that

he’s experienced this year, and the

importance of looking beyond binaries to face both.