Kansas City-based musician Kevin Morby releases a video for ‘Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun,’ a track off of his newest album, Sundowner, out now on Dead Oceans.
Watch the video below:
‘Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun’ is “the album’s unassuming centerpiece… It drags and drives at Morby’s own pace, largely held together by his voice, evocative and haunting in its weariness” (Vulture). This video is the final installment in a trilogy of videos made for Sundowner, and a counterpart to the “Campfire” video. This video, directed by Johnny Eastlund and Dylan Isbell, takes influence from Wim Winders’ Paris, Texas as it jumps back and forth from a grim reality in a roadside motel to a dreamscape theatre.
“At the time of writing the album, it felt like Katie and I were the only two people on earth – living out in suburban Kansas away from the chaos of our lives on the road and on the coasts and our days became very childlike and innocent: riding bikes, making up games and singing songs,” says Morby. “When we found ourselves back in a similar environment due to the lockdown, and it came time to make videos, I wanted to depict our lives in solitude from when I wrote the album.”
Praise for Sundowner
“[Sundowner] is a perfect afternoon under a big blue sky, a vision of the Midwest that feels mythical and enormous.” – Pitchfork
“The dawning of new love, the acceptance of profound loss, navigating an old life with a new set of eyes. The spirit of Sundowner fossilized in earnest.” – Aquarium Drunkard
“Sundowner has the feeling of a conversation a person is having with himself or his loved ones, trying to make sense of things with music that was at once fragile and roughhewn, music that gets at a core strain of Morby’s songwriting DNA while simultaneously suggesting the great emptiness of the Midwest American landscape.”– Stereogum
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