My Morning Jacket
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My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket is the eponymous ninth studio album by American rock band My Morning Jacket, released on October 22, 2021, through ATO Records. It is their first album of newly recorded material in six years, following The Waterfall (2015). The album was preceded by the release of the single "Regularly Scheduled Programming". -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Concentrating hours of freeform takes into the baggy shape of 11 songs, My Morning Jacket’s ninth LP achieves the dubious goal of nailing a “jam band album” on the first try.
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Paste Magazine
My Morning Jacket Reclaim Their Mojo on Self-Titled 9th LP.
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Holler
My Morning Jacket certainly make a resolute statement with this new album, i.e: “we’re back”. Of course, coming as it does from a group so averse to explosive displays, it's the kind of measured statement one needs to lean-in to discern.
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Guitar
My Morning Jacket’s two guitarists produce an electrifying, intuitive performance on a definitive and tonally varied return.
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American Songwriter
There are enough twists to keep even longtime fans on their toes. It’s what makes them so consistently intriguing and will hopefully keep the members inspired, and inspirational, for the foreseeable future.
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PopMatters
On My Morning Jacket, Jim James sifts through perceptions about technology and nature, offering a treatment for getting washed away by modernity.
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Riff Magazine
This album gives the full spectrum of what My Morning Jacket can do: It can rock out, but is also capable of sublimely tender moments and brutally honest introspection. It’s a great follow-up to The Waterfall II.
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Glide Magazine
The extended “I Never Could Get Enough” ends the record in pretty fashion as My Morning Jacket confidently reunites, allowing the music to take the band where it wants to go on this self-titled effort.
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The Line of Best Fit
The listener is likely to concur - and start the record over from beginning once the extended track's very cosmic keyboard ripples finally (but all too soon) fade away.
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Hotpress
Throughout the record, MMJ appear and disappear in Pink Floyd quantum fashion, with Prince, The Allman Brothers and Crazy Horse galloping past. They are a band like no other, who never do the expected.
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Uncut
With James overseeing the album’s production and engineering as well as its songwriting, eschewing almost all outside studio assistance, My Morning Jacket is clearly dedicated to reviving two decades of camaraderie, as polished as The Waterfall but, like their live shows, heavier and harder. Older and wiser the band may be, but if they’ve altered otherwise, it appears to have been to everyone’s benefit. A change is as good as a rest, after all. It seems they’ve exploited both.
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Spill Magazine
Overall this was an ear pleasing experience.
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Sputnik Music
My Morning Jacket hits at times and misses at others, but all told it is a very respectable return for an iconic band.
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Commedia
My Morning Jacket delivered the unexpected: a concise, beautiful album with both profound lyrics and complex instrumentation. Those six years fans had to wait paid off, as this album is one of the best of the band.
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Spectrum Culture
Kentucky’s beloved My Morning Jacket has the requisite energy of an MMJ disc, but it also feels more like play. There's joy in the performances, which carries the album even as it feels a bit scattered.
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Renowned for Sound
As a long time My Morning Jacket fan, I came to the album ready to review it in the kindest of terms. But there’s just not enough here to sink one’s teeth into. It’s not terrible, but it is painfully middle of the road; a passing fancy that’s alright when it could have been great.
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KTXT
If you’re looking for that classic rock sound in a modern band, I couldn’t recommend a better place to start than this self-titled album by My Morning Jacket. You get a taste of all the elements of rock we all love with a more modern twist that keeps us coming back for more. A great road trip album is often hard to come by these days, but this one might just be our saving grace.
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