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Music : At Dawn
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- Atmospheric All American Music
Ive turned alot of my friends onto this band. The general consensus is that they are very good, why they are good is harder to explain. The music isn't anything overly original, the twang of country guitars, the Neil Young style vocals, the stories of good old America. Somehow though, My Morning Jacket effortlessly transport you to a smokey middle America bar, with a beer in your hand. Jim James is a cracking songwriter, and a wonderful singer, his voice is steeped in hurt and emotion but his songs are uplifting. Opener "At Dawn" sets the pace, while second song "Lowdown" is a pop classic. "Bermuda Highway", "Just Because I do", "Phone Went West" & "Xmas Curtain" are the other standouts. My Morning Jacket deserve to join other top American bands such as R.E.M & Pearl Jam where it's not exactly clear why they are so good, just that they are.
Rating: - BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
I heard a track from this album played on radio and immediately went out and bought it. It is essential for any serious collecor to have this. Brilliant.
Rating:
- Classic slow-burner
Part alt-country, part bluesy rock, Jim James' My Morning Jacket's debut proper is a lo-fi raggedy heartbreaker of an album. Inviting comparisons with Neil Young, Mercury Rev and a raft of 'new country' pioneers like Willard Grant Conspiracy and The Handsome Family, this is an album steeped in classic Americana. Songs like Lowdown, The Way That He Sings and Bermuda Highway stand out from first listen, but the whole record brims with skewed harmonies and reverb. Heartily recommended and best served loud with a cold beer, preferably at dusk rather than at dawn.
Rating: - If you love Neil Young!
This is a great album!!! I bought it on the back of a couple of music magazine albums and im astonished that nobody else has submited a review of it yet.
It is obvious that the band have been listening a lot to 70s Neil Young and it pays off. Lowdown and Bermuda Jighway are perfect rock songs with a little country mixed in.
If you are currently into the boom of country rock bands out there at the moment i recommend this album or if you love 60s, 70s dylan, donavon, Neil Young buy this album for a fresh year 2003 twist on things.
I trucking love it!
Rating: - Unique hybrid of country-rock and the avant-garde
This is very strange stuff. My Morning Jacket's links with bands as diverse as the Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and Mercury Rev can be best understood within the country-rock genre that they're close to subverting. Much less electronica than the 'Lips, and much more organic than Grandaddy… if anything, this is closer in soul and spirit to Mercury Rev's 'Deserter's Songs' or 'All Is Dream'. But what does it sound like?
Well, it's hard to describe. 'It Smashes Down' will haunt you - one guitar and a creepy, high octave vocal from Jim James, with sinister swirling lurking in the background. But then, 'At Dawn', 'Lowdown' and 'The Way That He Sings' all owe debts to a whole range of styles - ushering themselves in with percussion and electrical humming, before branching off into strummed acoustic guitar and slow-building rock songs.
Frequent comparisons with Neil Young's vocal style have been made - I partly disagree. To me, Jim James is part Young, part Wayne Coyne, part Jon Donahue. What matters is he gets the emotion and feel of the songs across, and his ragged, sometimes off-key singing has a kooky, endearing charm. Some listeners will hear the voice and be put off instantly - not me, but then I always think good songs are worth more than good singers.
This takes a few listens to connect with, and isn't an instant classic, but it will creep up on you and slowly filter into your brain until you'll be digging this album out on those late drunken nights when you want a glorious mixture of melancholy and harmony to lull you off to sleep. And at over seventy minutes, this is, if nothing else, remarkably generous stuff. Well worth the gamble.
- Atmospheric All American MusicIve turned alot of my friends onto this band. The general consensus is that they are very good, why they are good is harder to explain. The music isn't anything overly original, the twang of country guitars, the Neil Young style vocals, the stories of good old America. Somehow though, My Morning Jacket effortlessly transport you to a smokey middle America bar, with a beer in your hand. Jim James is a cracking songwriter, and a wonderful singer, his voice is steeped in hurt and emotion but his songs are uplifting. Opener "At Dawn" sets the pace, while second song "Lowdown" is a pop classic. "Bermuda Highway", "Just Because I do", "Phone Went West" & "Xmas Curtain" are the other standouts. My Morning Jacket deserve to join other top American bands such as R.E.M & Pearl Jam where it's not exactly clear why they are so good, just that they are.
Rating:
- BEST ALBUM OF THE YEARI heard a track from this album played on radio and immediately went out and bought it. It is essential for any serious collecor to have this. Brilliant.
Rating:
- Classic slow-burnerPart alt-country, part bluesy rock, Jim James' My Morning Jacket's debut proper is a lo-fi raggedy heartbreaker of an album. Inviting comparisons with Neil Young, Mercury Rev and a raft of 'new country' pioneers like Willard Grant Conspiracy and The Handsome Family, this is an album steeped in classic Americana. Songs like Lowdown, The Way That He Sings and Bermuda Highway stand out from first listen, but the whole record brims with skewed harmonies and reverb. Heartily recommended and best served loud with a cold beer, preferably at dusk rather than at dawn.
Rating:
- If you love Neil Young!This is a great album!!! I bought it on the back of a couple of music magazine albums and im astonished that nobody else has submited a review of it yet.
It is obvious that the band have been listening a lot to 70s Neil Young and it pays off. Lowdown and Bermuda Jighway are perfect rock songs with a little country mixed in.
If you are currently into the boom of country rock bands out there at the moment i recommend this album or if you love 60s, 70s dylan, donavon, Neil Young buy this album for a fresh year 2003 twist on things.
I trucking love it!
Rating:
- Unique hybrid of country-rock and the avant-gardeThis is very strange stuff. My Morning Jacket's links with bands as diverse as the Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and Mercury Rev can be best understood within the country-rock genre that they're close to subverting. Much less electronica than the 'Lips, and much more organic than Grandaddy… if anything, this is closer in soul and spirit to Mercury Rev's 'Deserter's Songs' or 'All Is Dream'. But what does it sound like?
Well, it's hard to describe. 'It Smashes Down' will haunt you - one guitar and a creepy, high octave vocal from Jim James, with sinister swirling lurking in the background. But then, 'At Dawn', 'Lowdown' and 'The Way That He Sings' all owe debts to a whole range of styles - ushering themselves in with percussion and electrical humming, before branching off into strummed acoustic guitar and slow-building rock songs.
Frequent comparisons with Neil Young's vocal style have been made - I partly disagree. To me, Jim James is part Young, part Wayne Coyne, part Jon Donahue. What matters is he gets the emotion and feel of the songs across, and his ragged, sometimes off-key singing has a kooky, endearing charm. Some listeners will hear the voice and be put off instantly - not me, but then I always think good songs are worth more than good singers.
This takes a few listens to connect with, and isn't an instant classic, but it will creep up on you and slowly filter into your brain until you'll be digging this album out on those late drunken nights when you want a glorious mixture of melancholy and harmony to lull you off to sleep. And at over seventy minutes, this is, if nothing else, remarkably generous stuff. Well worth the gamble.