Way back in March, Kevin Morby announced his new album This Is A Photograph, unveiling the fevered title track and word of a world tour that ran through most of 2022, closing out next month in western Canada. It meant that several months would pass — right through the May release of his seventh studio LP via Dead Oceans — before the Texas native would show off one of the best songs of the year live on a local club stage, and finally that night arrives tonight (October 24) as Morby rolls into The Sinclair in Cambridge.
The track, as well as the album, was produced by Moby’s longtime collaborator Sam Cohen, known in northeast circles back in the day as a founding member of Berklee-born Boston psych-pop band Apollo Sunshine. There’s an inspired urgency to “This Is A Photograph” that moves fast around a simple snapshot of American life.
“Sam and I wanted to throw everything at the wall with this one,” says Morby about the song. “It’s about the battle every family faces, that of chasing the clock, to live our lives and hold onto one another for as long as possible. That, and, the dreams that come with being a young family in America and where those dreams eventually end up.”
Get into it below, hit the link for tonight’s show info, and watch the Chantal Anderson-directed video for “This Is Photograph,” which was filmed in a remote California town and edited with both Morby family photos and archived photos from the Peter J. Cohen Collection.
KEVIN MORBY + COCO :: Monday, October 24 at The Sinclair, 52 Church St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., 18-plus, sold out :: Bowery event page
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