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[Tracy 2112]

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The new My Morning Jacket Album, The Waterfall, is a metaphor for life beating you down- like a waterfall — cascading notes, opaque layers of sound, and rippling arrangement-appealing inscrutability- deeply ingrained spirituality- vein between '60s-era Serge Gainsbourg and Marvin Gaye's falsetto-modern synth meets "Heart Of Gold"'s Neil Young-urgent hooks-rerouting placid jazzy acoustics with quick-click drum jolts-warbling jittery Led Zep-like guitar-a bottleneck stranded by reverb- a folky gravitas-a Marshall Tucker Band vintage hue-tricky tonal tempos-scorched-earth anthems -emerging like a figure in the fog: a bed thickly coated with '70s funk melodies, and vivid contours that sound soothing and firm-A breakup LP that lands somewhere near acceptance-sunny-trippy- an arpeggio recalling Yes' signature "Roundabout"-meditative with a burbling guitar s that feels like a Pacific sunset behind vapor-pen clouds, a perfect balance of the medicinal and the recreational-a sense of uncertainty-falsetto "woo-woo" hooks-grand, folky soft-rock-eerie, haunted glow-echoes of 70s soft-rock in its major-seventh chords, and the wailing guitars-a late-night lament to lost youth-whirlpools of analogy and swirling guitars-a whirlpool of supposition, analogy and swirling guitars-stadium-sized self-belief of an arrangement-gently juddering keyboard and eerily shivering string-synth-smoke-wreathed reflection on the wheel of life, swathed in vibes and fizzing portamento synth, rather sabotaged by its own ambition, with too stilted shifts between  various sections-terse, chunky chording- inflected with prominent dashes of 1970s Californian rock-punctuated by dashes of psychedelia-squally, spacey, overblown-just like a carefully stitched patchwork quilt of styles-calm and unhurried- a spiritual mysticism, sonically defining with refrains of eerie progression-an inviting record that will leave returning fans thankful for them not disappearing-filled to the brim with decades of classic rock, blue-eyed soul, and old-school folk influences-downright Zeppelin-esque-contented and optimistic-a triumphant listen-keening steel guitar and gentle finger-picking guitar-boisterous, almost-live feel-leaning towards big, striding choruses and unashamedly anthemic moments -the kind of unashamed classic rock dads will tell you nobody makes any more-one moment shivering and fragile, the next cavernous and booming-a beautiful, timeless slice of country-tinged storytelling, it recalls the best work of Harry Nilsson with its blissful simplicity-an ever-shifting sound collage-perfectly distills the West Coast vibe of Déjà vu-era Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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