- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- Sundowner
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC231digital
- Release Date
- 16 octobre 2020
-
Vinyle 1×LP, Limited Coloured
Pas disponible -
Vinyle
$26.99 -
CD
$14.99Lire la suiteDOC231CD
-
Téléchargements
$9.99320 kbps, LAME encode
Genres
Press Release
In the winter of 2017 I moved back to my hometown of Kansas City from Los Angeles. The move was sudden and unforeseen, just as I was tying a bow on the writing process for what would become my 2019 album, Oh My God. I bought a Four Track Tascam model 424 o of an old friend to help me get to the nish line, but much to my surprise and excitement, this new piece of equipment in my all-but-bare home didn’t help complete one album but rather inspire another: Sundowner. The new collection of songs came quickly and e ortlessly as I did my best not to resist or re ne the songs, but instead let them take shape all on their own. As the songs kept coming I cleared out the crowded shed that was sitting dormant in my backyard and built a makeshift studio before adding drums, lead guitar and piano to complete the demos. Each day I would teach myself basic recording techniques, watching the channels illuminate and pulse as if the machine were breathing, and then emerge in the evenings as the sun was getting low: - around 5:30 in the winter, when the Kansan sunsets look icy and distant, like a pink ember inside of a display case, and 9 o’clock in the summer, when the sunsets are warm and abstract. Landing back home felt jarring juxtaposed with a life full of chaos and adventure with my band on the road. But at the very least, I was happy to have - for the rst time in my adulthood - a place to close the door, with no temptations other than to work on music and re ect on what I had built since I left. It was a new form of isolation, one I had never explored or expected to experience. Not ready to let go of the hand of the California desert, I spent the winter decorating the best I knew how; with mementos from my previous home, cactus and aloe vera and covering the walls in pinewood - immediately earning my house it’s nickname, The Little Los Angeles. In January 2019 I contacted my friend and producer Brad Cook to help recreate what I had made in my shed. We chose to work in Texas; we wanted to make sure the record was done far away from any coastline, and in the heart of America. Brad played bass and some keys on the album, but beyond that he encouraged and inspired me to play almost everything else. All lead guitar, proper drums (save the drums on “A Night At The Little Los Angeles”), mellotron and what I believe to be the albums secret weapon - a WWII era collapsible and slightly out-of-tune pump organ - were performed by me. We did, however, bring in James Krivchenia towards the end of the session to ll out the percussion. It was an honor to work with him as he built maracas from pecans and played on the oor of the live room, adding ourish wherever he saw t. On the last evening of the session, after everything had wrapped, we all climbed on top of an empty water tower on the property, giving us a view in all directions. To the North you could see an endless Texas, with long wisps of cirrus clouds above the desert oor, and to the South there was Mexico, the recent detention camps only a mile beyond, with large cumulus clouds hovering over, bringing us to an ominous pause. To the West, towards the setting sun, the two families of clouds merged, holding the last light of the day in purple and orange. Below, a freight train cut the landscape in half as it whistled in the distance. Almost as soon as the session wrapped, I was o and away on press trips and then proper tours for Oh My God, which came out in April that same year. Sundowner sat inside of a hard drive back at Sonic Ranch and did not see the light of day, until I found myself, as did the rest of the world, stuck inside their home and in quarantine in March 2020. My second year of touring for Oh My God was cancelled. Brad, Jerry and I worked from our respective homes, sending notes back and forth as we worked alone but together to mix the album, and suddenly, just like that, Sundowner was nished. Songs, like sunsets, are eeting, and it’s only due to a willingness and desire to catch them that you ever, if even only for a moment, grab a hold of one. When writing Sundowner, I was lucky to have had the Tascam 424 there to help capture both. Sundowner is my attempt to put the Middle American twilight -- it’s beauty profound, though not always immediate -- into sound. It is a depiction of isolation. Of the past. Of an uncertain future. Of provisions. Of an omen. Of a dead deer. Of an icon. Of a Los Angeles themed hotel in rural Kansas. Of billowing camp res, a mermaid and a highway lined in rabbit fur. It is a depiction of the nervous feeling that comes with the sky’s proud announcement that another day will be soon coming to a close as the pink light recedes and the street lamps and house lights suddenly click on. -- Kevin Morby, Kansas, 2020
Liste de titres pour édition numérique
-
1
Valley
4:06
Acheter
Valley
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
2
Brother, Sister
4:39
Acheter
Brother, Sister
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
3
Sundowner
5:11
Acheter
Sundowner
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
4
Campfire
5:21
Acheter
Campfire
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
5
Wander
1:56
Acheter
Wander
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
6
Don't Underestimate Midwest American Sun
5:23
Acheter
Don't Underestimate Midwest American Sun
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
7
A Night At The Little Los Angeles
7:11
Acheter
A Night At The Little Los Angeles
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
8
Jamie
4:09
Acheter
Jamie
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
9
Velvet Highway
3:21
Acheter
Velvet Highway
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
10
Provisions
5:35
Acheter
Provisions
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
Sundowner
Kevin Morby
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- More Photographs (A Continuum)
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC348DIGITAL
- Release Date
- 26 mai 2023
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- Music From Montana Story
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC342DIGITAL
- Release Date
- 25 janvier 2023
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- This Is A Photograph
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC316DIGITAL
- Release Date
- 13 mai 2022
- LP (special)
- CD
- Cassette
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- A Random Act Of Kindness
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC316DIG5
- Release Date
- 28 avril 2022
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- Rock Bottom
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC316DIG3
- Release Date
- 30 mars 2022
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- So Far Away
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC319DIGITAL
- Release Date
- 16 novembre 2021
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- Oh My God
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC191cd
- Release Date
- 26 avril 2019
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Kevin Morby
- ReleaseProduct
- Harlem River Dub (Peaking Lights Remix)
- Label
- Woodsist / Mare
- Catalogue Number
- WOODSIST096
- Release Date
- 6 décembre 2018
- Téléchargements
Dead Oceans
-
Précommander
- Artist
- Khruangbin
- ReleaseProduct
- A LA SALA
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC357
- Release Date
- 5 avril 2024
- LP (special)
- CD
- Cassette
-
- Artist
- Khruangbin
- ReleaseProduct
- Pon Pón
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC357DIG5
- Release Date
- 19 mars 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- MRCY
- ReleaseProduct
- Flowers In Mourning
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC354DIG3
- Release Date
- 12 mars 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Bill Fay
- ReleaseProduct
- Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC345DIG1
- Release Date
- 23 février 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Khruangbin
- ReleaseProduct
- May Ninth
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC357DIG3
- Release Date
- 20 février 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- MRCY
- ReleaseProduct
- Lorelei
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC354DIG1
- Release Date
- 6 février 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Khruangbin
- ReleaseProduct
- A Love International
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC357DIG1
- Release Date
- 16 janvier 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Bill Fay & Marlon Williams
- ReleaseProduct
- After The Revolution
- Label
- Dead Oceans
- Catalogue Number
- DOC362DIGITAL
- Release Date
- 8 janvier 2024
- Téléchargements
Alternative / Indie / Post-rock
-
- Artist
- Stereolab
- ReleaseProduct
- Little Pieces Of Stereolab (A Switched On Sampler)
- Label
- Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- D-UHF-DL45
- Release Date
- 29 mars 2024
- CD
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Stereolab
- ReleaseProduct
- Switched On Volumes 1-5
- Label
- Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- D-UHF-DL44
- Release Date
- 29 mars 2024
- Lot
- CD Boxset
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Soulwax
- ReleaseProduct
- Nite Versions - [PIAS] 40 Edition
- Label
- Play It Again Sam
- Catalogue Number
- PIASR1212DA
- Release Date
- 27 novembre 2020
- LP
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Digging
- Label
- Now Again Records
- Catalogue Number
- NA5254c
- Release Date
- 29 mars 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- SAM MORTON feat. Alabaster DePlume
- ReleaseProduct
- Let's Walk In The Night
- Label
- XL Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- XL1416DS
- Release Date
- 26 mars 2024
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Crumb
- ReleaseProduct
- AMAMA
- Label
- Crumb Records
- Catalogue Number
- CR004DIG4
- Release Date
- 26 mars 2024
- Téléchargements
-
Précommander
- Artist
- Julia Holter
- ReleaseProduct
- Something in the Room She Moves
- Label
- Domino Recording Co
- Catalogue Number
- WIG506D
- Release Date
- 22 mars 2024
- LP (special)
- CD
- Téléchargements
-
Précommander
- Artist
- Kelpe
- ReleaseProduct
- LP10
- Label
- Kit Records
- Catalogue Number
- KR64
- Release Date
- 5 avril 2024
- LP
- Téléchargements
Limited Editions
-
- Artist
- Shabazz Palaces
- ReleaseProduct
- Robed in Rareness
- Label
- Sub Pop Records
- Catalogue Number
- SP1613
- Release Date
- 27 octobre 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Téléchargements
-
- Artist
- Recondite
- ReleaseProduct
- Hinterland
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI190CD
- Release Date
- 11 novembre 2013
- LP (special)
- Téléchargements
- Précommander
-
Précommander
- Artist
- Sega Bodega
- ReleaseProduct
- Dennis
- Label
- ambient tweets
- Catalogue Number
- at001
- Release Date
- 26 avril 2024
- LP
- Téléchargements
- Précommander
- Précommander
-
Précommander
- Artist
- Howard Shore
- ReleaseProduct
- SE7EN - Original Motion Picture Score
- Label
- Waxwork
- Catalogue Number
- WW165
- Release Date
- 5 avril 2024
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- Sound Synthesis
- ReleaseProduct
- Orbital 108
- Label
- Orbital Mechanics
- Catalogue Number
- Orbital 108
- Release Date
- 26 janvier 2024
- LP (special)