Tender, uplifting, sensitive and moving, the seventh LP by the Texas-born, Kansas-raised singer-songwriter is full of richly vivid lyrics wrapped in strong Americana folk-pop and a vocal delivery that echoes mid-70s Bob Dylan. The memory-provoking, nostalgic images about time passing and family pressures within title track comes with an upbeat, catchy number that was a former Song of the Day here, and its theme is revisited in the quieter, closing track Goodbye to Good Times. But there are many equally strong moments on this album, from Bittersweet TN with its delicate banjo accompaniment and guest vocalist Erin Rae, to A Random Act of Kindness, A Coat of Butterflies, the upbeat sounding rock but melancholy lyrics of Rock Bottom, or the sensitive and heartbreaking Forever Inside A Picture or Stop Before I Cry. The album began when
Morby began to flip through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City soon after, at a family dinner, his father had collapsed in front of him and had to be rushed to the hospital. So this powerful but tender album is filled with emotions, memories and a sense of fear, anxiety, hope and resilience history,, trauma and the grand fight against time all churning together. Out on Dead Oceans.
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