“Kevin Morby takes us on journeys around the cities close to his heart”
“Kevin Morby’s captivating fourth album feels spacious and intimate at once. It possesses an elegant, dusky atmosphere and Morby’s hopelessly optimistic songwriting is the best it has ever been.”
“Kevin Morby’s solo career can quite succinctly be defined by the concept of place. His debut album ‘Harlem River’ was an ode to New York City, and 2016’s brooding ‘Singing Saw’ was quite obviously influenced from his time writing and recording it in the gloomy shadow of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Fourth LP ‘City Music’ then, adheres to this pattern. He confirms this in an accompanying note ”
“It feels like Kevin Morby is eager to reach a new horizon, musically speaking. Ex of Woods, The Babies and several other bands, this is now the Kansas man’s fourth solo album, and each has struck a different tone. Though this new record is pitched as the urban-inspired companion piece to last year’s country-led ‘Singing Saw’, drawing from the city landscape rather than the bucolic, there is nothi”
