![]() ![]() They feel it so deeply, in fact, that the lighthearted “Lucky to Be Alive” is basically an advertisement for getting back on the road, albeit with a tinge of streaming-era irony: “They cut off all the bread that used to keep us fed/So thanks for coming to the show,” James offers with a smiling shrug. ![]() The tightly coiled “Penny For Your Thoughts” and the KISS-tinged “Complex” seem uniquely designed to reach way back into the depths of huge outdoor crowds and make a connection. Hopefully it occurs to me that theres one thing that I cant. ![]() I know that just now I aint been showin, the kind of love you know that I can. Thats the thought of a single day, without your head in my hand. Hopefully it occurs to me that theres one thing I cant stand. While there isn’t a ton here that forwards their narrative, the sense of being in a studio blasting away right as shows and festivals begin to open again is palpable. MY MORNING JACKET LYRICS - Hopefully With a good lovin smile thats yours until the end. I know after a million times you get sick of all my lines, but I just wanna see you safe again. My Morning Jacket, their first album of new material since 2015’s The Waterfall (and their follow-up to last year’s archival stopgap The Waterfall II), finds the band very much in their comfort-rock comfort zone. In recent years, main man Jim James has largely been focusing on solo work, chasing various whims on records like 2016’s politically-tinged Eternally Even, 2018’s loose scuzz-guitar party Uniform Distortion, and 2019’s The Order of Nature, a set done in collaboration with the Louisville Orchestra. They’ve got a way of filtering realist anxiety into their ambitious trippiness, droning as much they’ve jammed, while working every available nuance out of a sound that flips history’s narrative by simultaneously imagining Radiohead as choogling pastoralists and the Allman Brothers as self-aware indie-rock kids. My Morning Jacket have always made classic rock seem relevant in our day and age, because the Kentucky boys never fooled themselves into thinking that human existence collapsed into oblivion the day Skynyrd’s plane went down. ![]()
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