| Morby, Kevin / This Is A Photograph |
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| Album: | This Is A Photograph | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Morby, Kevin | Added: | Jul 2022 | |
| Label: | Dead Oceans | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2022-10-12 | Pull Date: | 2022-12-14 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 11 | Dec 4 | Nov 27 | Nov 20 | Nov 13 | Nov 6 | Oct 30 | Oct 23 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 11, 2023: | Hanging In The Boneyard Disappearing | 4. | Jan 26, 2023: | Down in the Basement A Coat of Butterflies | |
| 2. | Feb 02, 2023: | Down in the Basement A Random Act of Kindness | 5. | Jan 19, 2023: | Down in the Basement A Random Act of Kindness | |
| 3. | Feb 01, 2023: | Hanging In The Boneyard Five Easy Pieces | 6. | Jan 14, 2023: | Hanging In The Boneyard Disappearing, Stop Before I Cry |
| Album Review |
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| Mr. Bones Reviewed 2022-07-19 | ||
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Like Paul Simon's Graceland, Morby centers this disk around a pilgrimage to Memphis, TN. In it he expands his style to include the city's great soul, gospel and R&B roots into his folkish sound. In addition to 'soul city', he explores his family, his love (Waxahatchee) and his heroes (Jeff Buckley, Otis Redding...) in it. Sonically the disk is more expansive that his previous releases, including lush down tempo tracks with arrangements of strings, horns & harp in addition to his full bore rock band. Either way the production deftly accents his laconic Dylan-eque vocal styling. FCC: #7, #9 (note: bad words have been removed from this disk) RIYL: Kurt Vile, Jeff Buckley, Lou Reed 1 This Is A Photograph - hard driving guitar & sax in this exploration of his youth & family, builds to chaotic ending (fast, 3:52)* 2 A Random Act of Kindness - simple organ/vocal opening slowly builds to a deliciously beautiful swirling finale (med, 4:15)*** 3 Bittersweet, TN - countryish duet with angelic Erin Rae backed by lovely slow picked banjo & fiddle (slow, 4:14)*** 4 Disappearing - spooky guitar/harp opening & trippy overdubs with references to Jeff Buckley who drowned in Memphis (slow, 3:28)** 5 A Coat of Butterflies - homage to JB with ethereal opening including horns, harp & lovely chorus. (slow, 6:41)** 6 Rock Bottom - fun, full bore rocker with fast guitar opening (fast, 3:25) 7 Five Easy Pieces - Morby croning over sweet orchestration (med, 4:12) FCC: 1:32 on original 8 Stop Before I Cry - drop dead beautiful love song to beaux Katey, aka Waxahatchee, with divine harp, sax & flute (slow, 4:59)**** 9 It's Over - sumptuous arrangement with horns, backing vocals & strings all dancing around each other (med, 5:22)** FCC 1:51 on original 10 Goodbye To Good Times - sweet slide on this homage to the soul greats (med, 5:15) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | This Is A Photograph | 6. | Rock Bottom | |||
| 2. | A Random Act of Kindness | 7. | Five Easy Pieces | |||
| 3. | Bittersweet, TN | 8. | Stop Before I Cry | |||
| 4. | Disappearing | 9. | It's Over | |||
| 5. | A Coat of Butterflies | 10. | Goodbye To Good Times |