My Morning Jacket’s New Album Is ‘Is’

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1st short review

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/album-reviews-ian-sinclair-march-10-2025

26 YEARS on from their debut, Louisville, Kentucky's My Morning Jacket aren't just still going strong, they are making some of the best music of their career.
Frontman Jim James has previously produced or co-produced every one of the band's albums, creating some of the biggest guitar rock of his generation — check out their great bear of an album It Still Moves. On their new record he has relinquished the producer's chair to Brendon O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen), who has brought a poppy concision and crisp sound to proceedings.
There are lots of hooks and catchy riffs, from Lemme Know with its '80s computer game-style electronica intro to the ancient-sounding piano riff (apparently a sample of country legend Buddy Emmons) that underpins the gorgeously pensive anthem Time Waited.
With great song following great song, it's an inspired set.

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