Mini-Reviews

[LaurieBlue]

My Morning Jacket - Z(RCA)
Louisville, Kentucky quartet MMJ have insisted on defying cateogroization since their inception. At times invoking the spirit of Neil Young and Crazy Horse and at other times going for a strangle rustic ambient quality, they have always made somewhat mesmerizing music. This time around they all but ditch the Young stylings in favor for a more wistful serenity.

http://music.ign.com/articles/655/655404p1.html

Tune In Tuesday
My Morning Jacket spells buzz with 'Z'
By Jeffrey Lee Puckett
jpuckett@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

No record has gotten more buzz this fall than My Morning Jacket's "Z," the Louisville band's fourth full-length effort. Every music rag on the stands has featured our boys in some capacity, including a rave review in Mojo, one of the world's top rock 'n' roll magazines.

The anticipation ends today with the release of the playful, gorgeous and mold-shattering album. The barefoot hillbilly Southern rock comments are about to end.

Trivia time. Jacket singer Jimmy James, who dislikes 90 percent of known music, recently admitted in a national magazine that one of his all-time favorite songs is a treacly ballad by an artist with a vague Kentucky connection. Name it and win a CD of your choice -- unless it's one I'd rather keep for myself.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051004/SCENE04/510040320/1011/SCENE

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'Z, the brand new CD by MY MORNING JACKET (out 10/4), is without a doubt their most accomplished recording in their young career. Years from now, we will all look back at this record, and see Z as one of the most defining releases of their career, as well as one of those records that will mess up kids and get them excited to pick up a guitar and start their own band. Yes, it's THAT good.'

http://www.recordandtapetraders.com/

[LaurieBlue]

one of those records that will mess up kids and get them excited to pick up a guitar and start their own band. Yes, it's THAT good.'

http://www.recordandtapetraders.com/

How complimentary is THAT?!  Kind of reminds me of the Led Zeppelin topic we were covering before.

[JacketGal]

from Rhapsody:
 
Album Mini-Review:
MMJ's fourth LP finds them working with wizard producer John Leckie (Stone Roses, George Harrison, Radiohead, Pink Floyd). They transcend Americana and aim toward the stratosphere. Songs shimmer and glide as Jim James's falsetto stretches heavenward. Let this album work its warm magic on you. Listen repeatedly.
- Eric Shea  

[LaurieBlue]

Rolling Stone

"And watch My Morning Jacket's latest, Z, give the Louisville, Kentucky, indie band their highest chart debut ever."

[EC]

Rolling Stone

"And watch My Morning Jacket's latest, Z, give the Louisville, Kentucky, indie band their highest chart debut ever."

Oooh, exciting - are they on a chart?

[ratsprayer]

'Z, the brand new CD by MY MORNING JACKET (out 10/4), is without a doubt their most accomplished recording in their young career. Years from now, we will all look back at this record, and see Z as one of the most defining releases of their career, as well as one of those records that will mess up kids and get them excited to pick up a guitar and start their own band. Yes, it's THAT good.'

http://www.recordandtapetraders.com/

that reminds me of the quote from brian eno(?) about only 20,000 or so people buying vu & nico when it came out, but everyone of them went to start a band after hearing it.   [smiley=guitar.gif]

[LaurieBlue]

http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Our_Critics_Picks/2005/10/06/Our_Critics_Picks/index.shtml

Our Critics Picks

Saturday, 8th

MY MORNING JACKET Kind of like a mullet, many of MMJ's songs are business in the front, party in the rear. Take "Off the Record" from their new album Z. It starts with a Peter Gunn-style riff, then quickly becomes a bouncy, tight pop song that's likely to stick in your craw for days, like "Louie, Louie" on Red Bull. Then, just as an El Camino transitions abruptly from sedan to pickup, the song becomes an airy instrumental piece, with a funky organ and bass encouraging everyone to tune in, drop out—or just stand there, if you're one of the many otherwise snobby indie kids who happen to like MMJ but generally disdain their jammy forebears. Though incongruous hybrids aren't always successful, My Morning Jacket have carved out quite a niche as an enjoyable oddity of a band. City Hall —STEVE HARUCH

[LaurieBlue]

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section=48&screen=newsprint&news_id=44937

Go, See, Do (ya think?  ;D)

October 06, 2005
  
My Morning Jacket plays headbanging, reverb-soaked Southern rock that calls to mind swimming in a deep underwater cave. They play a Kentucky-friend show at 8 p.m. Saturday in City Hall, 405 12th Ave. S. Tickets: 255-9600. $20

 

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STUFF Magazine

My Morning Jacket, Z

8/10

You won't be disappointed

The skinny:
These bountifully hirsute roots-rockers jump off their Crazy Horse and traverse some unlikely sonic territory on Z. The spiritual gush of "Gideon" recalls The Unforgettable Fire–era U2, and most of the new stunts work well, thanks to Jim James' cavernous croon.

You'll like this album if you like:
Neil Young, Will Oldham, The Flaming Lips, letting your hair down...all the way down to the floor

Standout tracks:
"Off The Record," "Lay Low," "Dondante"

[CC]

NY Mag has a strange way of saying they love the new album ;D

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My Morning Jacket

By Faran Alexis Krentcil
 
Posted October 4, 2005
Picture this sweet Swinger Jacket over a white tank, with a pair of great jeans and heels. Its retro 60's cut blithely defies this season's goth girl trend, but who cares? The sweet bell sleeves, cropped fit, and creamy ivy embroidery make it adorable and sexy all at once. It's versatile enough to go from day to night, works well with a pencil or circle skirt for the office, and right now, it's under $50 ( originally $88 ). Are you swooning yet?
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http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/shopping/columns/bestbets/daily/tuesday/14666/

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Boston Herald

``Z''
Tuesday, October 4, 2005

My Morning Jacket is more than the reconciliation of Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd. On ``Z,'' Jim James leads his band far beyond classic and Southern rock into a playful wonderland of inspired sounds, where Beach Boys harmonies, off-kilter reggae rhythms, outer-space bass blobs and spaghetti-western guitar happily and tunefully collide as James' high voice wails soulfully above. I admit I have almost no idea what he's singing about, but when it all sounds this good, who cares? Download: ``Wordless Chorus.''
 
     Larry Katz

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/discReviews/view.bg?articleid=105424

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Dallas Observer

My Morning Jacket
Z (ATO/RCA)
By Noah W. Bailey

Published: Thursday, October 6, 2005

If 2003's It Still Moves was the album that showed why My Morning Jacket was ready to play stadiums, Z is the one that proves they deserve lasers and smoke machines. While the band's music has always walked a fine line between twang and space-rock, Z sees them stretching out their arrangements further into the cosmos than ever before, with Jim James' voice aiming upward like a rocket ship. While none of the songs here are as classic-sounding as "Golden" or as rocking as "One Big Holiday," every one of the 10 is impeccably crafted, resulting in the band's most cohesive (and succinct) album. "Wordless Chorus" opens the record with a low, lurching keyboard part, contrasting perfectly with James' reverb-laden croon, while " Into the Woods" is MMJ at its weirdest, featuring James sweetly singing "A kitten on fire/A baby in a blender" over a creepy circus organ before morphing into a one-man Russian military choir. Single "Off the Record" is the best slab of reggae-rock recorded since the Clash, taking a riff from Hawaii Five-0 and marrying it with one of James' catchiest melodies, but "Knot Comes Loose" proves James can still write a classically styled acoustic stunner, slowing down the ship and breaking out the bongos for a campfire-style jam on the rings of Saturn.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-10-06/music/hearthere3.html?src=default_rss

[antoniostrohs]

Trivia time. Jacket singer Jimmy James, who dislikes 90 percent of known music, recently admitted in a national magazine that one of his all-time favorite songs is a treacly ballad by an artist with a vague Kentucky connection. Name it and win a CD of your choice -- unless it's one I'd rather keep for myself.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051004/SCENE04/510040320/1011/SCENE

Lucky Me.I e-mailed the trivia answer the morning of this review and won a free disc.Yahoo!

[tomEisenbraun]

it's Al Green, right?

[antoniostrohs]

it's Al Green, right?

No it was Dan Fogelberg's song "The Leader Of The Band" and the vague KY connection is his song "Run For The Roses" which is played quite a bit during Derby time in our state

[EC]

No it was Dan Fogelberg's song "The Leader Of The Band" and the vague KY connection is his song "Run For The Roses" which is played quite a bit during Derby time in our state

What cd did you pick?  Congratulations!!

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

...but his blood runs through my instrument, and his song is in my souuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullllllllllllllll.... ;)

[antoniostrohs]

What cd did you pick?  Congratulations!!

I asked for the new disc by The Magic Numbers.I had read a couple of nice reviews.

[EC]

I asked for the new disc by The Magic Numbers.I had read a couple of nice reviews.

Oh!  Tell me what you think.  I've been reading all about them everywhere, too.

A brother and sister band.  Nice. :)