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 FranGitano 2016-11-13 00:56:02
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0 有用 hardeofficial 2025-01-21 13:58:39 四川
82/100 下半部分拯救了这张专辑
1 有用 tlmgt 2016-05-10 20:34:42
相当
0 有用 特立独行的鞋 2022-04-02 13:38:41
器乐部分实在是棒,这嗓音还有和声真的一股子Americana味(听第二次完全爱上了,改五星)
0 有用 vegetable 2022-09-12 10:08:04 四川
Drunk and On a Star/I Have Been to the Mountain/Dorothy 好听的,性情中人Kevin。
0 有用 momo 2022-05-30 14:55:16
好吃Kevin这一套,好舒服
0 有用 懊恼的土豆™ 2020-09-04 23:05:09
Black Flowers,Destroyer,Singing Saw,Drunk and on a Star,Ferris Wheel
0 有用 黄黄开开心心 2020-11-13 16:33:24
即使不去探讨Morby想表达的含义,歌曲本身的艺术性也是极其棒!
0 有用 IanZZZ 2020-06-18 17:14:20
One of the best
0 有用 特立独行的鞋 2022-04-02 13:38:41
器乐部分实在是棒,这嗓音还有和声真的一股子Americana味(听第二次完全爱上了,改五星)