Kevin Morby Announces New Album City Music, Shares New Track “Come to Me Now”: Listen

Kevin Morby is releasing a new album this year. City Music, billed as a “counterpart” to last year’s excellent Singing Saw, is out June 16 via Dead Oceans. “It is a mix-tape, a fever dream, a love letter dedicated to those cities that I cannot get rid of, to those cities that are all inside of me,” says Morby of the album in a statement. Check out the lyric video for his new track “Come to Me Now” below. Morby has also announced a world tour, which features festival dates including Primavera Sound and the Newport Folk Festival. Find those dates here. Morby shared a statement about “Come to Me Now”:

The organ you’re hearing on this song is an old pump organ from the 1800s, I wish 
I could remember the brand—but I don’t. This was my favorite part of recording this album, playing this thing and pumping air into it with the foot pedals, it had such a presence from the moment I entered the studio. For the first few days I think I thought it was just there for looks, that there was no way it still worked, but sure enough it did. Above it hung a framed photo of the original owner of the studio’s property who died sometime ago. Apparently his ghost still occupies the premises.

City Music:

01 Come to Me Now
02 Crybaby
03 1234
04 Aboard My Train
05 Dry Your Eyes
06 Flannery
07 City Music
08 Tin Can
09 Caught in My Eye
10 Night Time
11 Pearly Gates
12 Downtown’s Lights

Watch Morby perform “I Have Been to the Mountain” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2016:

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