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Genre: indie-folk, singer-songwriter

Former Woods bassist and the Babies co-founder Kevin Morby release his new solo album, Singing Saw on April 15 via Dead Oceans.

It marks the follow-up to 2014’s Still Life and reflects a change in Morby’s surroundings. The Texas-born musician moved to Los Angeles, where he inherited an upright piano, mysterious sheet music and a book on piano basics from previous tenants. These formed the building blocks for the new material, which hears Morby learning the instrument and exploring the duality of his new city — finding inspiration in both the lights of the city’s skyline and the dark, dried-up plant life.
Singing Saw was produced by Sam Cohen, who previously worked with Morby on a live recreation of the Band’s final performance, The Complete Last Waltz. And despite the creative energy harvested on the West Coast, Morby and Cohen recorded the songs in Woodstock, NY, in a converted house. The pair fleshed out Morby’s acoustic guitar and piano sketches, adding guitar, bass, drums and keyboard, while their Complete Last Waltz  collaborator Marco Benevento played piano and keyboard in the studio.
Other contributors include Hannah Cohen, Lauren Balthrop and Alecia Chakor on backing vocals, Nick Kinsey and Justin Sullivan on drums, Oliver Hill and Eliza Beg on strings, Alec Spiegelman on saxophone and flute, and Cole Kamen-Green on trumpet. John Andrews provides the album’s titular saw.

Tracklist:
01 - Cut Me Down
02 - I Have Been to the Mountain
03 - Singing Saw
04 - Drunk and On a Star
05 - Dorothy
06 - Ferris Wheel
07 - Destroyer
08 - Black Flowers
09 - Water

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