My Morning Jacket - Z
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Artist: My Morning JacketEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: Ato Records / Red
Soundtracks:
- Wordless Chorus
- It Beats 4 U
- Gideon
- What a Wonderful Man
- Off the Record
- Into the Woods
- Anytime
- Lay Low
- Knot Comes Loose
- Dondante
Free Music Notes for Z
Free Music Review: A much needed change of direction. Proof that Appalachians have brains.
Hit: 5 Stars
A lot has happened in the time in between It Still Moves and 2005's Z. Two members left, replaced by guitarist Carl Broamel and keyboardist Bo Koster, the band became Bonnaroo legends, and started to pick up more attention and fame. So, when 2005's Z came around, it seemed fitting to try a few new things to the tried-and-true MMJ sound.
First off, there's less reverb, but that's ok, because the songs are fantastic. There's the Prince vibe of Wordless Chorus, the Flaming Lips-inspired It Beats 4 U, and the reggae-meets-Pink-Floyd Off The Record. The band really experiments with each song, channeling funk, reggae, psychedelia, and of course, rock and roll.
What makes this album really well done is the slick production. My Morning Jacket has never sounded this accessible and pop-friendly. Also, the album plays it a little safer. While It Still Moves was huge (74 minutes), this album manages to rock just the same at 45, correcting some of the weaknesses of albums like At Dawn and The Tennessee Fire.
And it's more energetic too. What A Wonderful Man and Anytime seems to take no prisoners in the pop and rock world. The band finally knows how to seriously rock out (not that they couldn't in the past), and Lay Low has a fantastic guitar duel that rivals early Skynyrd. Dondante also has a stellar guitar solo with a sax ending that rivals the best of Wish You Were Here.
This is a great album with absolutly no filler, and is full of surprises coming from a band that worshiped at the throne of Neil Young. Best album I've heard so far.
Z Poster
2006 European re-issue of their 2005 album now includes the bonus track, 'Chills', which was previously available only on the Japanese album and on the UK single to 'Off the Record'. Sony/BMG. 2006.Two years and a pair of band members have passed since My Morning Jacket's last album, and the respite seems to have reinvented the Louisville, Ky., band and its leader Jim James. Shelved are the boogie-soaked country and hard-stomping metal of the first three records--assuring that all links to Lynyrd Skynyrd are hereby obsolete--and the sleek maturation of James's wailing, echoing falsetto may have even nullified the Neil Young comparisons. Using the guitar as a complement more than as a weapon, songwriter James has simplified the sound where keyboards take the lead and choruses play like a '70s AM radio. While songs like "Anytime" and "What a Wonderful Man" channel the old MMJ sound, they do so with less chaos and more spontaneity. That's the trend for the record's best: "Wordless Chorus" and its infectious "aaaah" refrain, the Hawaii Five-O-riffed ska of "Off the Record" and a Stranglers-minded carnival waltz, "Into the Woods." Serving as a pop-music paradigm that change is good, Z is ambitious, groundbreaking and downright impeccable. --Scott Holter
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