★★★★★
With Evil Urges, Jim James and company have cooked up a remarkable recipe. One that builds on 2005?s Z and injects more of the band's underlying soul, hip-hop and r&b influences into their pysch-rock melting pot to create a jubilatory, genre-defying masterpiece. Both the title track and the monster bash, "Highly Suspicious," harness the Prince juices James has shown a proclivity for live...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Genre: Rock Year: 2003 Country: USA Official Site: My Morning Jacket Details: Tracks & Audio Label: Rca You're drinking something, but the lights are low, and you're not sure what it is.The tiny stage in the corner of the bar gets filled up by some equipment and a rather large band for such a small place. Horns and all. Well, alright, you've got a few bucks in the jukebox, but maybe they won't suck. They don't. First, you're bobbing your head...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
When they're at the top of their game, Jim James and his longtime Louisville quintet My Morning Jacket specialize in thundercrack moments. Over six albums, they've developed a knack for splitting songs open with one of James' sky-piercing wails, a guitar solo or a wondrous, where-did-that-come-from? choir. One such moment arrives in the middle of "Circuital" (ATO), the seven-minute title track from the band's sixth album...
- leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Sound: My Morning Jacket's "It Still Moves" is easily one of the most diverse and interesting albums out in the market today, though you may not find it at your local Target or Wal-mart. To sum in up in one sentance: "It Still Moves" is heavy, while not being metal it is also very melodic and very different. The guitars have this amazing clear and crisp sound and the volume they are at rate perfect. When you want a straight-out rocker, they are cranked up to 11...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: The overall sound of this album is a mix of what they've done on previous albums. You get songs like "Victory Dance" and "Holdin On To Black Metal" which has a "Evil Urges" feel about them, but then there's tracks like "Wonderful (The Way I Feel)" which sounds like early MMJ. It makes the album something for everyone. // 9 Lyrics and Singing: Can anybody match Jim James's vocals...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare The Morning After With their sixth studio release, My Morning Jacket has delivered one of the best albums of 2011. Each song on Circuital is an expedition into beautifully crafted instrumentation, unique blends of various genres, and of course, garnished with lead songwriter, Jim James' astonishing vocals...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-11-14
★★★★★
ATO Far away from the reverb drenched rock of their youth, Circuital, the sixth studio album from My Morning Jackets sees the band coming to terms with their maturity. It is sort of a coming of age album, draped in the 70's rock idiom to which they owe so much of their sound to. While it's hardly derivative it's also hit or miss, an album where they hit a couple of out of the ballpark, 400 footers and then go down in three pitches on the next beat...
- www.jambands.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
Like a set of connections, My Morning Jacket has always been able to piece their albums together around a basis of solid strengths. Besides being a band that has come and gone through Southern rock and a folk standby, their eclectic breed of styles has introduced gnarly smashers ("Off the Record") and flourishing breaths of fresh air ("The Way That He Sings") with the one constant forever being Jim James' gorgeous voice...
- www.adequacy.net
2011-06-27
★★★★★
It's hard not to commend a band who dare to change, even if the act of switching lanes makes them stumble. In 2005, Louisville quintet My Morning Jacket released their fourth album, Z, morphing not altogether deftly from a proto-Fleet Foxes/Band Of Horses bunch of reverbed retro-rockers into something altogether spacier and shinier...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2011-06-13
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