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10.0
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10.0 |
NME
The Kansas City troubadour’s seventh album is an epic ode to the fragility of life and the consequent need to cherish love, joy and family
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9.0
129935
9.0 |
All Music
One of the best chapters in an already impressive catalog; one that finds a new artistic depth as it faces some of life's eternal concerns
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Kevin Morby scales new heights of inspiration on the exceptional This Is A Photograph
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9.0
129898
9.0 |
Uncut
With This Is A Photograph, he offers the wisest and most assured rendering of the Middle American vision he’s been honing of late, one where Dylan-esque anti-singing narrates impassioned, earnest and earthen tales of family, place, love and heroes, and a crack band shakes the rafters. Print edition only
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8.5
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8.5 |
Northern Transmissions
It establishes him as one of the most prolific and trustworthy voices in the modern music of America
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8.5
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8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
On This is a Photograph, Morby somehow rarely sounds morbid. As he meditates on time's eventual victory over us all, he finds that knowledge to be a reason not to resign, but to rally
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8.2
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8.2 |
Paste Magazine
Usually content to stay in one lane per album, Morby gracefully exhibits the breadth of all his capabilities on his seventh
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8.0
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8.0 |
Gigwise
Rich and thematically earnest
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
A record that feels warmer, wiser and less forced than any of his albums so far. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The singer-songwriter’s seventh album is a house of spirits, haunted by the ghosts of Jeff Buckley, of Jay Reatard, of childhood and innocence and moments long past
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7.6
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7.6 |
Beats Per Minute
Locale’s always played a pivotal role in Morby’s material, and his time spent in Memphis directly comes into play for This is a Photograph. Holed up in the Peabody Hotel, Morby soaked in the essence of his influencers, then streamlined them into his own consciousness
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7.3
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7.3 |
Pitchfork
The singer-songwriter’s seventh record is a Memphis vision quest—an earnest, ambitious collection that touches on family, nostalgia, and mortality
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6.0
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6.0 |
A.V. Club
An album which aims for an impressively grand vision, but rarely hits the mark. In its less grandiose moments, though, it’s frequently successful, providing the listener with a number of lovely folk tunes
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