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As an album, Early In The Morning is an atmospheric and absorbing listen, which peels back layers upon every visit. It can be musically sweet and lyrically maudlin by equal measure (note the you can stop your crying, Im never coming back opening to the relatively upbeat Breaking Hearts). The unusual influence of those great female singers also makes an emotional mark (We Dont Eat wouldnt feel out of place on a Billie Holiday collection). And though the albums conception will inevitably draw comparisons with Bon Iver and his cabin, the record bears closer inspiration from the likes of John Steinbeck, F Scott Fitzgerald or Roald Dahl: writers who examined, in McMorrows words, the darker, less spoken about aspects of life, solitude and disillusionment. The characters I create in those songs, the ones existing in the shadows...theyre all elements of me, for sure. This is perhaps best demonstrated on From The Woods!! towards the records end, which builds, fades and then positively erupts into a dramatic musical conclusion. The album closes just as it started, on the bucolic five-part harmony of Early In The Morning, Ill Come Calling.