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Album Description: 2008 reissue of the album, It Still Moves, from 2003 by the rock band My Morning Jacket. Track listing "Mahgeetah", "Dancefloors", 'Golden', "Master Plan", "One Big Holiday", "I Will Sing You Songs", "Easy Morning Rebel", "Run Thru","Rollin' Back",'Just One Thing',"Steam Engine" and "One in the Same". My Morning Jacket is a mix of indie rock, country rock, Southern Rock, psychedelic, and jam band styles, and enthusiastic and energetic live shows. Formed in 1998 in Louisville, Kentucky, the band signed with ATO Records.
Customer Reviews:
- The Best Thing Around: This is an unbelievable album. My Morning Jacket is on another level right now, and this is arguably the best album they've produced. Do yourself a favor and get hooked.
- my morning jacket: great album; in the genre of elliot smith, mazzy starr, the morphine side of Beck. I recently purchased their latest album, "Evil Urges" and have only listened to it once. I didn't care for it but will give it more tries as this album ("It Still Moves") is so terrific.
- Early Screaming Trees in some fashion: Ya know this somehow reminds me of the Screaming Trees when they were coming up. A little Red House painters/Sun Kil-Moon as well. The album is low-fi, perhaps partially reminding me of early Screaming Trees studio efforts.
- Given a pass by easily satisfied fans: Indie-darlings My Morning Jacket get a call to the majors and...well, does anyone really love this record? I suspect that affection for earlier work influenced the mostly good regard and praise heaped upon It Still Moves. In fact, the problem is ironic considering the title: it hardly moves at all. Most songs stretch five minutes and more, but feel nearly twice as long as that. And at seventy minutes of music, that is one long slog.
The reverberating echo effect is alternately mesmerizing and annoying; the tracklist full of decent but rarely exceptional songs. The highlights include the pretty "Golden," the strong opener, "Mahgeeta" (and one of the few songs that feels longer than it is, but in a good way), and the bluesy "Run Thru." Having not listened to the band's earlier music, I don't know if this is just another case of an indie losing authority on a major label, but they straightened out their problems with the flawed but often stellar follow-up effort, Z. I suppose the fan-base was strong enough to make this record seem better than it actually is.
Best cuts: "Golden," "Mahgeeta," "Run Thru," "Easy Morning Rebel," "Masterplan," "Dancefloors," "One in the Same" - Not so great!: I really wanted this cd because I love the song "Golden," and I thought at the rest of the album must be at least passable. So it was surprising to hear how bad the rest of the songs are, mostly due to the gimmicky "echo chamber" sound to all of them. "Golden" is so different from the rest that it seems like it was done by another band altogether. A big disappointment! Sorry, but that's my opinion. . .
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