Kevin Morby - More Photographs (a Continuum) - VINYL LP

Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almostincomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph,studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It's a dynamic,buoyant record on big, heavy themes, so it only makes sense that Morbyfound he wasn't quite done with it on it's completion. More Photographs(A Continuum) finds new nooks, corners and vantage points. InchIf This IsA Photograph is a house that you have been living inside of,Inch says Morby,Inchthen More Photographs is, perhaps, the same home just experienceddifferently. As if you, it's inhabitant, have taken a tab of somethingpsychedelic and now, suddenly, you've replaced your eyeglasses withkaleidoscopes.Inch Here, Morby returns to his landmark album's bottomless themeswith new wisdom, new imagination, and the winking, looping callbacksthat tie his full body of work together in uniquely special ways.InchEverything you once thought was familiar,Inch he continues, Inchsuddenlyappears differently, shifting shapes, color and sonic landscapes.Inch InchFiveEasy Pieces RevisitedInch captures the same moment from Bobby's pointof view; InchThis Is A Photograph IIInch takes a similar tact, revisiting it'spredecessor from a different angle. InchTriumphInch explores more of themyths and deaths that surround Memphis, TN, this time inspired by BigStar's Chris Bell. And InchKingdom Of HeartsInch arrives as an origin story toboth This Is A Photograph and it's new companion. InchWith every collection of songs,Inch says Morby, InchI feel I must cast themout of me before moving onto the next project, and here I knew thatwhat I had begun with This Is A Photograph was not finished. Releasingthis collection is my tying a bow on that time and place in my creativelife.Inch With a luxurious nine tracks - three re-imaginings and six brandnew songs - More Photographs (A Continuum) is prequel, sequel a

The story begins with Kevin Morby absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Just hours before, at a family dinner, his father had collapsed in front of him and had to be rushed to the hospital. That night Morby still felt the shock and fear lodged in his bones. So he gazed at the images until one of the pictures jumped out at him his father as a young man, proud and strong and filled with confidence, posing on a lawn with his shirt off. This was in January of 2020. As the months went on and the world dramatically changed around him, Morby felt an eerie similarity between his feelings of that night and the atmosphere of those spring days. Fear, anxiety, hope and resilience all churning together. The themes began twisting in his mind. History, trauma and the grand fight against time. Having the courage to dream, even while knowing the tragedy that often awaits those who dare to dream. While his father regained his strength, Morby meditated on these ideas. And then, he headed to Memphis. He moved into the Peabody Hotel and spent his days paying tribute and genuflecting to the dreamers he admired. In the evening, he would return to his room and document his ideas on a makeshift recording set-up, with just his guitar and a microphone. The songs, elegiac in nature, befitting all he had seen, poured out of him. Produced by Sam Cohen (who also worked on Morby's Singing Saw and Oh My God), This Is A Photograph features musical contributions from longtime staples of Morby's live band, as well as old friends and new collaborators alike. If Oh My God saw Morby getting celestial and in constant motion and Sundowner was a study in localized intent, This Is A Photograph finds Morby making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. As Morby reminds us early on, time is undefeat

Kevin Morby - City Music [VINYL LP] date 06/16/2017