My Morning Jacket: Off The Record
My Morning Jacket 2005
Relax, it's not as weird as you might think
The way that some people have been talking up the new My Morning Jacket album as a shocking stylistic U-turn you’d think that they’d recorded 45 minutes of Eskimo folk-techno. As it is, all they’ve done is ditch some of the extended guitar solos in favour of off-kilter indie in the vein of The Flaming Lips – admittedly,
‘Off The Record’ succumbs to a sickly reggae lilt, but the way that Jim James’ plangent vocals sound like a sad drunk little ghost and the air of frayed nerves and sleepless nights would make a statue well up. Ace.
‘Off The Record’ succumbs to a sickly reggae lilt, but the way that Jim James’ plangent vocals sound like a sad drunk little ghost and the air of frayed nerves and sleepless nights would make a statue well up. Ace.
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