My Morning Jacket - Circuital

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Circuital is the upcoming sixth album by My Morning Jacket. It will be released on May 31, 2011 on ATO Records.

Track Listing:

1. Victory Dance
2. Circuital
3. The Day Is Coming
4. Wonderful (The Way I Feel)
5. Outta My System
6. Holdin On To Black Metal
7. First Light
8. You Wanna Freak Out
9. Slow Slow Tune
10. Movin Away

still the best voice in rock.

is that the actual cover

yes

The title track is available as a free download from their website. I've only listened to this once and found it quite dull, hopefully it grows. I'm hoping this new album is a return to the sound of Z which is an album I still listen to a lot.

ugh z blew ass. hopefully they'll return to it still moves.

Really like the title track. Frankly I don't care what direction they go ad long as it's away from Evil Urges. (tbf there are a small handful of great tracks in that record, but the other two thirds blows).

still the best voice in rock.

How can you even tell? He just sounds like another one of the guys fashionably singing from the bottom of a well.

Gratuitous reverb = cowardice. It also sounds lame and will sound just as dated as Roni Size in a few years.

Z was great

Evil Urges wasn't

that cover is really bad

Jim James has been using that effect for 15 years and six albums... It wasn't a trend when they first came out. Also if you can't hear that he has a phenomenal voice then you're willfully not listening.

Oh yeah? His voice is phenomenal, is it? I should pay more attention.

title track is their finest since "wordless chorus" and "gideon." when have mmj album sleeves not been shit? evil urges has aged badley, but if this is anywhere within the range of their first four, I'll be just fine w/ it.

badly, even

Odd. Everything here is pretty steady-as-she-goes as there is little you could characterize as either fiery or mournful. The album has the maturity of band that know they don't have to try out a bunch of new songs styles or fill each track with every little trick in the(ir) book. The "in" trick for this album seems to an excercise in nuance. Airy, spacious arrangements are interspersed with countless samples and various sonic splashes that demonstrate a band who've become craftsman at shaping songs. This all makes it very easy on the ears, as any angularity remaining in their sound has been sanded-down to a splinter-free, baby's-bottom-smooth finish. Everything is soft. Too soft. Where's the passion? The up-tempo numbers are flaccid and the ballads just seem schmaltzy and without purpose. For a band who should be sounding mature, it just sounds, well, old.

A. Really glad this is, overall, a welcome rebound from Evil Urges, which was 50-60% embarrassing.
B. That said, the "Black Metal" song contradicts statement A.
C. I like this album best when I'm not paying too close attention to it. The few times I've honed in on the lyrics, they've been fairly abysmal. (See again "Black Metal", "Outta My System", and whichever song as the line "I feel wonderful is how I feel".)

"victory dance" is the only song that's made an impression so far

http://www.youtube.com/mymorningjacketvevo

9 PM tonite

this is happening tonight?

very cool!

yep they're on

So this is still not a patch on the early albums, but so goddamn much better than Evil Urges that is sounds like a classic. Its not, but my bar was lowered enough by that last mess that I'm liking this.

it's pretty cool they let the fans vote for the encore song "Steam Engine."

Erykah Badu just stepped on stage with My Morning Jacket

that was pretty awesome, looks like they will do another song

and now a third song with Badu singing, very cool encore.

i guess i'm the only one watching this live. anyways they are on their forth song together. incredible.

and now the BIG encore.

ok, i'll shut up now but...

:D

didn't really end up watching this, but i think it's super cool of bands to do this kind of stuff

these things are starting to show up on You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amsqS6ytuts&feature=player_embedded

awesome, thankig u bee ok

btw official videos are being put here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MyMorningJacketVEVO

looks like more to come probably

NPR gave this album its usual equivocal praise ("When it's good, it's very good" and so on).

That's about what it deserves. It's not always good but it's occasionally really great.

another great one from last night, Erykah Badu and My Morning Jacket doing "Wordless Chorus."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUWBOdK7h1w&feature=youtu.be

from the preview i heard, i dont like it. need to spend more time

been rocking this alot lately. It's pretty high quality stuff for a band on cruise control. Their best since the one before their last one!

Does anyone else here a little enio morricone influence on this record? - in the opening and then a couple times later on, there's a sweeping cinematic vibe.

Maybe a little bit in "black metal"...

is this anywhere as good as z?

yeah but it's not a patch on ISM

i've heard part of it still moves but not all of it, iirc -- i played the shit out of z in 2005 though and didn't like evil urges much

This is as good if not better than z. Comparing either of them to it still moves is like comparing rock in the 70's to rock in the 80's. It changed, and I like how MMJ evolved but evil urges was a big turd.

I've become very conflicted about Evil Urges in the last few weeks. It's easily got the highest quotient of awful, awful, spectacularly awful songs if any of their albums. But if you delete those from the running order, you're still left with a really strong little mini-album: title track, both versions of "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream," "Smokin' from Shootin'," maybe one or two others. Circuital is definitely more consistently good, but only one or two tracks jump out at me as straight up excellent.

this album has really been slept on this year. love hearing it.

this was just done just a few weeks back and is a great cover with Vedder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJVz5C96h2A