ChartAttack

[LaurieBlue]

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/10/1111.cfm

MY MORNING JACKET Z(RCA/Sony BMG)
Once an obscure alt.country band, My Morning Jacket's fourth effort is a nearly perfect classiv rock album. Although the music is less twangy and more melodic, it doesn't lose the band's traditional bluesy/folk style. Everything — including the album artwork — signals that My Morning Jacket have matured. From opening track "Wordless Chorus," Jim James' angelic falsetto continues to play a vial part in the band's atmospheric happy/sad ambiance that made It Still Moves an underrated classic. Not all songs rely on melancholy though. "Anytime" and "What A Wonderful Man" trades in the tears for blazing guitars and more crafted radio-friendly choruses. The closing "Dondante" is an eight-minute Jeff Buckley-esque ballad that builds from a whisper into a blazing rockout. Z deserves an A. Mike Armitage