More Photographs (a Continuum)

Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost

incomparable 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 Morby

found he wasn't quite done with it on it's completion. More Photographs

(A Continuum) finds new nooks, corners and vantage points. "If This Is

A Photograph is a house that you have been living inside of," says Morby,

"then More Photographs is, perhaps, the same home just experienced

differently. As if you, it's inhabitant, have taken a tab of something

psychedelic and now, suddenly, you've replaced your eyeglasses with

kaleidoscopes."

Here, Morby returns to his landmark album's bottomless themes

with new wisdom, new imagination, and the winking, looping callbacks

that tie his full body of work together in uniquely special ways.

"Everything you once thought was familiar," he continues, "suddenly

appears differently, shifting shapes, color and sonic landscapes." "Five

Easy Pieces Revisited" captures the same moment from Bobby's point

of view; "This Is A Photograph II" takes a similar tact, revisiting it's

predecessor from a different angle. "Triumph" explores more of the

myths and deaths that surround Memphis, TN, this time inspired by Big

Star's Chris Bell. And "Kingdom Of Hearts" arrives as an origin story to

both This Is A Photograph and it's new companion.

"With every collection of songs," says Morby, "I feel I must cast them

out of me before moving onto the next project, and here I knew that

what I had begun with This Is A Photograph was not finished. Releasing

this collection is my tying a bow on that time and place in my creative

life." With a luxurious nine tracks - three re-imaginings and six brand

new songs - More Photographs (A Continuum) is prequel, sequel and

primer to an already rich and generous record from one of our most

luminous modern songwriters.