My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
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Free Music Review: It takes more than one listen
Hit: 5 Stars
The latest from MMJ shows that this band is not content to let themselves become complacent. Just as "Z" was a departure from "It Still Moves" and so on, this album is largely different from its predecessor. Yet it still has the ability to send a shiver up your spine. Upon my first few listenings to this album I was not that impressed, I thought that they were trying and failing to be different for different's sake. But I wanted to like this album, so I kept listening with an open mind and open ears, and I am glad that I did.
I have listened to this album about 25+ times since first purchasing. However, I was not able to fully aprreciate the album until I took the time to listen to the album through headphones and I could really be enveloped by the music. While there are some tracks that do not really float my boat, such as "Remnants" and "Aluminum Park" the vast majority of this album will leave you amazed.
I feel like in some ways MMJ albums are kind of like Pink Floyd albums. In that to get the full experience of the music you need to be able to listen to the album all the way through. You will lose some of the brilliance of the music if you are constantly starting and stopping.
Free Music Review: Just plain fun and creative.
Hit: 5 Stars
Let's face it... for the time being, My Morning Jacket is done with the 'It Still Moves' sound, as witnessed on 'Z' and now, 'Evil Urges'. While I still love earlier MMJ('At Dawn' is still my favorite), I'm full steam ahead with their new sound.
"Highly Suspicious" is hilarious, catchy and should amuse any fan of Prince. "Sec Walkin'" has a magical feel to it that gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it, as well as "Librarian", which should appeal to old and new MMJ fans.
I, personally, loved the reverb-drenched vocals that consumed 'Tennessee Fire' and 'At Dawn'. Many critics, however, felt like Jim James used this technique to disguise his "poor vocals". Well, with 'Z' and 'Evil Urges'...there is definitely less reverb. And guess what? Jim James still has a unique and incredible voice.
I was lucky enough to get tickets to the Louisville show in August...and needless to say, I'm extremely excited to see my favorite band live for the first time...in their hometown!
Now, where did I put that peanut butter puddin' surprise?
Free Music Review: different doesn't make it bad
Hit: 5 Stars
My Morning Jacket's "Evil Urges" was an album that I had been looking forward to for a very long time. When I heard the first song they released online (touch me i'm going to scream pt. 2)... i thought to myself "what happened?" I still bought the album they day it came out and immediately went to listen. When i was done...i GOT it. it just made sense to me how it all fit into place. My other jacket fans that i suggested the album to hated it...all of them. I was still a believer in Jim James and didn't give up. We went to see them in Columbus on Oct 6th. The live performances of the new songs blew them and myself away. there is so much involved in this album that can go unheard if you listen to it with the mindset of "this isn't It Still Moves" . Patrick's drumming is amzing throughout the album and carl and jim both lay down some nasty licks. Also some of the bass lines that two tone tommy plays are really impressive. Buy this album and listen to it as its own entity, its not At Dawn, Z, or any other album...Its evil urges and it aint hurtin nobodyFree Music Review: Brilliant; best effort to date from a band with huge potential
Hit: 5 Stars
Comparisons to Wilco are apt; Evil Urges (and Z, to some extent) show a band that's unwilling to let the success of excellent (but narrowly scoped) early works shackle its growth.
I find myself struggling to define MMJ at this point, as with each album they seem to increasingly defy any classification. Are they alt country? Indy rock? Roots rock? Southern rock? Pop? Psychedelic rock? The answer is, basically, yes, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Evil Urges is, from my perspective, MMJ's best album to date, and it firmly establishes MMJ as a band with massive potential which was only hinted at with Z. Taken on its own Z could have been a fluke, a blip on the radar, a simple diversion from their core sound; but Evil Urges only gets better and weirder, and it proves that Z was none of those things.
Some bands experiment for experimentation's sake, but MMJ's experimentations are all deliberate. Even more astounding is that, in Evil Urges at least, they all succeed.
Free Music Review: Creative, explosive, melodic, sonic landscape
Hit: 5 Stars
I decided not to write this review until I had at least 5 complete listens and it is beyond my comprehension how someone can write an honest review of music without taking time to digest it. But that's just me.Jim James and the rest of MMJ continues to grow musically to the likes of Dylan, Wilco, Radiohead to name a few. Matchbox 20 is not even close to being in the same league with these guys.
At first it does seem uneven, but after a few listens it takes off like a rocket, flows through the middle as mellow weightlessness, then plunges back into the atmosphere. This is a fantastic musical experience and Jim James is a certifiable genius rock star.
Folks, take your time, listen and enjoy. It doesn't have to knock you out the first listen, but if you are patient it certainly will. Rock on MMJ!