Toronto - I will admit, I am extremely late to the My Morning Jacket train, despite having friends professing their love for them for years. I always thought they were just southern hick band. Obviously I was wrong. So when I got a chance to take a sneak peek at the latest MMJ offering - Evil Urges, I put it on without much of a thought.

Boy. This album is good. Really good. It sounds like everything. After doing some reading on the album, I found out that this album was more experimental and that the lead singer Jim James wanted the album to sound more like their live shows. If this is what their live shows sound like - sign me up.

The album has a little bit of everything, yea some songs sound southern (”I’m amazed”,”sec walkin”) but theres some songs that also sound like an 80s ballad (the awesome “Smokin from Shootin”), hell you could argue some sounds sound like Prince (”Touch me..”). The lyrics to the romantic number “The Librarian” even has the word “interweb” in it. How could you go wrong? This album just seems to have it all and even at the longish album time (about one hour) it goes by quite quickly.

Highly recommended: 4.5/5

 

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