“America is a lot closer to getting its own Radiohead, and it isn’t Wilco. My Morning Jacket, from Louisville, Kentucky, have been on the road to their OK Computer for a while; imagine "My Iron Lung" soaked in sour mash and you’re pretty close to the massed-guitar seizures on 2003’s It Still Moves. The band […]”
“Here's an album that begs for vinyl, although not for the reason you might think. Certainly, My Morning Jacket's worn-in rock 'n' roll-- its starchy guitar riffs and Jim James' other-end-of-a-long-tunnel vocals-- seems tailor-made for the intimate crackle of a dusty turntable. But the concisely titled *Z*, the band's fourth full-length, needs to be flipped over: It has two distinct sides. Granted,”
