Singing Saw is a record written simply and realized orchestrally. In it, Kevin Morby faces the reality that true beauty - deep and earned - demands a whole-world balance that includes our darker sides. It is a record of duality, one that marks another stage of growth for this young, gifted songwriter with a kind face and a complicated mind. Morby opens Singing Saw with "Cut M...(展开全部) Singing Saw is a record written simply and realized orchestrally. In it, Kevin Morby faces the reality that true beauty - deep and earned - demands a whole-world balance that includes our darker sides. It is a record of duality, one that marks another stage of growth for this young, gifted songwriter with a kind face and a complicated mind. Morby opens Singing Saw with "Cut Me Down", a song of tears, debts and a prescient vision of being reduced to nothing. "I Have Been to the Mountain", "Destroyer" and "Black Flowers" continue to explore beauty and freedom, seizing upon the rot that seeps into even the supposedly safest of realms; peace, family and romantic love. By the end of the record on "Water", Morby is literally begging to be put out once and for all, like a fire that might burn all the visions away. Travels beyond his mountain walks, near his Mount Washington home in Los Angeles, inform songs like "Dorothy", which recounts a trip to Portugal, witnessing a fishing ritual and luxuriating in the aura of a bar light-tinged reunion with old friends. The touching innocence of "Ferris Wheel" stands alone in stark simplicity amidst the lush sonic textures of the album. Here, the album is balanced by Morby's signature sweetness and joie de vivre. In the end, Morby fulfills the promise many heard on his first two albums, bringing his most realized effort of songwriting and lyricism to fruition. The songs of Singing Saw reflect the clarity that comes from welcoming change and embracing duality, and the distillation of those elements into an entirely new vision.
去年第一张满分给了Father John Misty的I Love You, Honeybear,巧合的是今年的第一张满分(不计粉丝因素)同样给了一张folk rock专辑——Kevin Morby的Singing Saw(或许我的确是个民谣控?)。与FJM编曲上尽显华丽和谐而内容却对现实的大加讽刺与批判不同,Morby的这张...
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Kevin Morby speaks the language of records. His spare acoustic sound pulls from the late ’60s and early ’70s, particularly Bob Dylan in baroque country mode, Songs of Leonard Cohen, and Lee Hazlewood. But where the well-read novelist Cohen was comparing m...
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0 有用 冰点之1234 2016-05-28 22:10:49
4+
1 有用 tlmgt 2016-05-10 20:34:42
相当
1 有用 八 2016-05-06 03:34:57
本年度目前為止白人音樂最愛,方方面面都十分紮實而感人的唱作人專輯
1 有用 末窗 2019-02-22 00:21:35
这folk rock里不仅有精致的管弦乐、福音和声编排,还有好听的inde rock旋律,在同类白人音乐中,这是极少数让我觉得聪慧的。
0 有用 Humpty Dumpty 2016-05-09 15:17:38
欧巴发福
0 有用 LIUQIN_117 2021-12-10 17:45:53
喜欢
0 有用 momo 2022-05-30 14:55:16
好吃Kevin这一套,好舒服
0 有用 列车员 2021-04-04 20:41:39
Campfire和这里的曲子一比真的相形见绌
0 有用 Setsuna 2020-06-09 19:30:33
器乐编排非常考究
0 有用 Zoe Diao 2020-11-19 09:21:38
器乐编排好。