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My Morning Jacket is a roots-rock band from Louisville (Kentucky) fronted by
vocalist Jim James.
The double-CD Early Recordings (Darla, 2005) collects their first singles.
Their The Tennessee Fire (Darla, 1999) delivered
simple country-rock melodies highlighted by haunting arrangements and
haunting vocals.
Alt-country, southern-rock and power-pop meet on At Dawn (Darla, 2000),
a monolith that packs enough refrains and riffs for an entire Kentucky bar-band
dynasty.
It Still Moves (BMG, 2003) is a bit too polished for their kind of
music, but their take on
southern-rock (Dancefloors, One Big Holiday, Mahgeetah)
and the nine-minute meditation I Will Sing You Songs (which achieves
Built To Spill-ian transcendence)
almost save the disc from its unwise (reverb-heavy) production values.
Chapter 1: The Sandworm Cometh (Darla, 2005) and
and Chapter 2: Learning (Darla, 2005)
collect
unreleased early tracks and rarities.
Z (ATO, 2005) was more of a producer's success (John Leckie)
than a songwriter's success, but it still meant
that My Morning Jacket had finally focused on what it wanted to be.
The album was a sonic exploration of ordinary states of mind
conjuring up visions of the most baroque REM ballads, of the prettiest
Tom Petty elegies, and even of U2's bombastic arena rock.
Studies on ambience such as Wordless Chorus, Into the Woods,
Dondante enhance the parade of off-kilter rocking tunes
(Lay Low, What A Wonderful Man, Off the Record, Anytime).
Okonokos (ATO, 2006) is a double-CD album.
Evil Urges (2008), their worst album yet, boasts a goofy funk-soul-rock
hybrid Highly Suspicious and the seriously depressed and electronic
Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt 1 (not to mention its
eight-minute remix as Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt 2).
The new course of the band might be the falsetto soul of Evil Urges,
though.
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