★★★★★
Like Harlem River , his highly regarded 2013 solo debut, the sophomore release from singer-songwriter and former Woods bassist Kevin Morby is a record of songs about his time in New York, before he headed out to LA, where he's lived since last year. These are songs of wandering, self-discovery and loss. "I am trying to make peace with where I am," he sings on "Bloodsucker...
- www.relix.com
2014-10-24
★★★★★
Kevin Morby's a wanderer, a journeyman: here today, gone tomorrow. Pretty much every song on Still Life--the second LP in a year's time from the former Woods bassist/Babies co-founder--finds Morby on the move, setting off to sea or motoring away, never to return again. Listening to the rich, reflective Still Life, it's easy to picture Morby with a wineskin under his arm, his every worldly possession hitched to his back, an eye constantly fixed on some faraway point on the horizon...
- pitchfork.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
The second album from the former Woods bassist and Babies frontman is a rock-solid set of muscular folk-pop with bittersweet melodies and lyrics of a life in transition. 10/17/2014
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- kexp.org
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Kevin Morby has spent the last few years as bassist of psych-folkies Woods and as one half of the Babies alongside former Vivian Girl Cassie Ramone, but he left both projects (for now, at least) to strike out on his own -- a commendable move that is clearly paying off, if is any indication. Despite being Morby's eighth album between the three projects in six years, and coming less than a year after his debut solo LP, , is a slick, full-bodied collection that shows that Morby has lots of sonic...
- exclaim.ca
2014-10-27
★★★★★
Kevin Morby spent the bulk of 2013 in transit, touring with his bands Woods or the Babies or in support of his first solo effort, Harlem River. While on the road, he wrote much of the material for his sophomore release, Still Life. True to its title, the album moves with a sluggish, drowsy gait, as if he had spent too much time in the sun...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Though Kevin Morby's debut solo album Harlem River came out in November, I only first heard it in late January, when I saw Morby open for Cate Le Bon. Even after reading about him (bassist in Brooklyn indie-folk band Woods, half of Cassie Ramone's post-Vivian Girls project the Babies), I wasn't ready to be terribly impressed, not so much so that I bought his record. But I was, and I did...
- cokemachineglow.com
2014-02-18
★★★★★
Woods bassist and Babies guitarist/singer Kevin Morby goes solo to shake out a short-story compilation's worth of vignettes in Harlem River. Vintage production values might as well be a prerequisite over at Woodsist and Morby's reverb-spattered record is no exception. Despite surface similarities, the dreamy LP sets itself apart from Morby's other projects from the start, dabbling in soul and folk and coming off a touch more intimate...
- www.relix.com
2014-02-05
★★★★★
Woods bassist and Babies guitarist/singer Kevin Morby goes solo to shake out a short-story compilation's worth of vignettes in Harlem River . Vintage production values might as well be a prerequisite over at Woodsist and Morby's reverb-spattered record is no exception. Despite surface similarities, the dreamy LP sets itself apart from Morby's other projects from the start, dabbling in soul and folk and coming off a touch more intimate...
- www.relix.com
2014-01-10
★★★★★
One more day in New York and I can't shake distraction. I'm into wandering these days, or at least since last weekend, hoping to walk off all these thoughts and just look closely and listen and maybe learn to love New York. Last Sunday, I walked three miles through Bushwick at six in the morning to get home, talking about the city almost the whole way...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-12-04
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