Pennied Days

Personnel: John Pelant (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboards); Mark Ritsema (guitar); Aaron Baum (piano, keyboards); Jared Isabella (drums).Audio Mixer: John Agnello.Recording information: Black Market, Minneapolis, MN; Russell Street Recording, Brooklyn, NY; Winterland Studios, Minneapolis, MN.Full of cool, moody surfaces and pop melodies that sounded part mid-'70s, part present day, Night Moves' debut album, Colored Emotions, was one of the more pleasant surprises of 2012. While the vague country influences on Colored Emotions have faded somewhat, the group's second album, 2016's Pennied Days, finds Night Moves moving slowly but confidently forward from their early work. Anchored in the striking, elemental keyboard work of multi-instrumentalist John Pelant, Pennied Days is a bittersweet song cycle that suggests several lovelorn characters have moved to a midsized college town. Just as Colored Emotions indicated a Midwestern mindset behind the layers of vintage pop, Pennied Day