bob moses


FROM WAREHOUSES TO FATHERHOOD


The story of Bob Moses has always been about dualities. From the shadows of Brooklyn warehouses to the spotlight of global festival stages, from late-ni- ght chaos to the quiet grounding of family mornings, their journey is mar- ked by constant contrasts. Today, fatherhood adds another


layer to


that balance, reshaping not only their daily lives but also the way they see themselves as artists.


For Jimmy Vallance the contrast could not have been starker. One week he was pacing the sleepless nights of new fatherhood, the next he was stepping onto the stage of Red Rocks as a headliner.


“In retrospect it was totally insane,”


he recalls. “I was in this state of sleep deprived, delirious twilight. Two of the most special moments of my life happening right next to each other was really wild.”


Tom Howie has his own version of that collision between two worlds.


“It’s a total trip to be out rocking a huge crowd at a festival and then come home to little people who don’t care at all and just go, ‘Dad, make me my pancakes already.’ It’s humbling, but it makes us better performers and better artists.”


That mix of chaos and grounding has reshaped the way Bob Moses see themselves. No longer


only enter-


tainers, they carry the awareness of shaping memories for others while living through milestones of their own.


“On stage, if I’m in my head or something isn’t sounding right, I’ll think of my kids and how carefree and expressive they are. I try to channel that. It reconnects me to the most basic human truths, dancing, music, having fun.” Tom says.


Jimmy: “I don’t have the luxury of be- ing indecisive anymore. There’s so much to do with Bob Moses, and kids in the mix forced me to eliminate wasted time. I trust my instincts more, and honestly, that’s for the better.”


That transformation spills into their music. Fatherhood has made their creative time precious and sharpened their focus.


“Each moment you can steal for your- self becomes essential. We’ve lear- ned to carve space for family and still protect our time to make music.”


Jimmy: “It’s softened us in a good way. Nothing connects you to pure love the way children do, and that makes it easier


to communicate emotions honestly in our songs.”


That honesty runs through tracks like Last Forever and Blink, where the desire for time to stand still meets the reality that it never does.


“Songs often reveal themselves later. You realize they’re about the purity of love and the sadness of knowing it can’t last. You blink and it’s gone.”


For Bob Moses the warehouse days may have been about the adrenaline of the moment. Today those same moments carry new weight, fleeting and fragile, but also more powerful than ever.


THE HUNGER FADES


THAT NEVER


For most artists, a Grammy win, a number one single and nights at Red Rocks would be the summit. For Bob Moses, those milestones are chapters, not destinations. Success has ne- ver quieted the voice inside that asks for more. If anything, each peak has only sharpened their awareness of how fleeting achievement can be, and how fragile creativity feels when you depend on it for a living. The hunger, they admit, never goes away.


“That bar or marker will probably always move,” Jimmy


admits. “We might


imagine that having enough money or accolades will create that feeling, but deep down we know it won’t. Part of it comes from how unlikely it was to even have a career in music in the first place. There is always this feeling that we’ll wake up from the dream and it will be gone.


That philosophy shapes how they view their achievements. On paper, Bob Moses have crossed monumental thresholds. Yet the moments never feel final, only transitional.


“Having a number one song on the radio was one of those,” Tom reflects.


“Love Brand New was at the top of alternative radio for weeks in the US and Canada, and we even got a little trophy. It was great, and we’re proud of it, but it just felt like another step on the journey.”


Jimmy: “That may also be because the way people consume music now is so different from when we were growing up. The meaning of having a number one on the radio isn’t the same as we might have imagined it. It was a cool achievement, but it didn’t feel quite like we expected.”


What that taught them, Tom says, is how to redefine ambition itself.


“It speaks a lot to the nature of this album. Life is a series of moments that come and go in an instant, and the challenge is to be in each one while it happens. They might not look like you expected, and they’ll be gone before you can hold onto them in a way that makes them feel like yours. That’s the real work, staying present.”


Creativity doesn’t belong to you, it just arrives, and you catch it. So there’s always that wondering, did we just get lucky, will it happen again?”


Tom sees “enough” less as a milestone and more as a state of acceptance.


“It probably has more to do with coming to terms with the nature of creativity and having faith in the future than any specific benchmark we could ever hit or anything we could acquire.”


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