What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

MY MORNING JACKET "evil urges" cd,2008.

Louiseville,Kentucky's MMJ's fifth studio album...and IMO their best one to date.
found these guys some time back courtesy of Tiggi, and am finally going to see them play live in April of this year at the Blues & Roots Festival alongside CSN,John Fogerty and Buddy Guy.
anyway,
probably their most easily accessable album, a bit more mainstream than their previous efforts, no Prog Rock or Crazy-Horse type sounds on this one, nothing really experimental at all, just a straight foreward "alternative rock/country" based album...yes, country sounds!....
some mighty fine acoustic type numbers with slide guitar here, but also some great heavier moments in "highly suspicious" and "remnants" to name a couple.
long standing fans who have written reviews on amazon.com dont really like this one as much as their other albums because of the 'commercial' sounding tracks, i on the other hand, see this as musical progression, which all fine musicians should be able to do if they are any good at their craft!
the track i list as my favourite one is not strictly my favourite one, but it does,however, sum up the overall sound of the album, no bad tracks on here at all, each one of these songs would have been worthy 'singles' back in the day IMO...allup, a great MMJ album and worth getting above all others they have released.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: touch me, im going to scream pt I
best track: im amazed

tracks:

1. evil urges **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv7v7lQ3Gas audio
2. touch me, im going to scream pt I **
3. highly suspicious ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ86hcHnc8I audio
4. im amazed ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sviNgOo1NA live
5. thank you too! **
6. sec walking **
7. two halves ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J7ZlozBYLQ audio
8. librarian ***
9. look at you **
10.aluminium park ***
11.remnants ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rM_LmvTc0U audio
12.smokin' from shootin' ***
13.touch me, im going to scream pt II ***
14.good intentions **

3s=8
2s=6
1s=0

rating: 2.6