Pre-Order: Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open

For Kevin Morby, the little wide open is the big sky, the small lives, its his origins in the Midwest, and every duty and modesty and familiarity and isolation: the land, the people, and the parts of that inside him. Theres something unintentionally musical about the Midwest; cicadas chirping in the trees, a train passing, a tornado siren going off, explains Morby. If you listen, there are these almost ominous sounds taking place beneath the wide-open skyits ugliness and its beauty and how the two are often working together simultaneously. And while the Midwest isnt technically the badlands, its my badlands.

Little Wide Open is the title of Kevin Morbys eighth studio album, produced by Aaron Dessner. In the summer of 2024, Dessner had asked Morby to support The National at their London show in Crystal Palace Park. Shortly after, Dessnerwho was on a hot streak, having produced albums for Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and Gracie