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- Summary: Kevin Morby latest full-length release features contributions by artists such as Aaron Dessner, Meg Duffy, Amelia Meath, Justin Vernon, and Lucinda Williams. It is said to be a part of an unintentional trilogy of albums that include 2020's Sundowner and 2022's This Is a Photograph.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 13, 2026With Little Wide Open, Morby has crafted something eternal, something that encapsulates the Midwest in all its rugged glory. It may just be his true masterpiece.
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May 14, 2026His most direct, understated, and poetic work to date. Ultimately, Little Wide Open is a masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul.
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May 15, 2026Little Wide Open certainly isn’t grandiose or over the top, but it does feel like most of his best material settled into one place here. It possesses all the marks of a year-defining folk/Americana release – and while I’ll stop short of calling it an instant classic, I do think time will be kind to this album.
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May 13, 2026Together the pair [Kevin Morby & Aaron Dessner] have crafted perhaps the most vivid and essential record of his career.
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May 14, 2026Little Wide Open is the most cohesive, tuneful and cleanly drawn album of Morby’s career.
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May 14, 2026There are a couple of moments that leap out – 100,000 builds to a climactic maelstrom of noisy guitar – but for the most part, Little Wide Open’s main currency is subtle pleasures.
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Jun 15, 2026Little Wide Open doesn’t venture far from the tastefully sparkling midtempo Americana that has become the hallmark of producer Aaron Dessner’s work outside his day job in The National. Allow it time to bloom at its own urgency-averse pace, however, and Little Wide Open may just offer the musical equivalent of a warm hug with its disarmingly plainspoken and unrushed contemplation.