My Morning Jacket announce their tenth studio album, is
My Morning Jacket have announced their first album in three years, is, alongside the release of lead single, "Time Waited".
The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Danny Clinch, featuring new performance footage interspersed with archival photos from throughout the band’s history. "Time Waited" emerged from a sample of a piano part lifted from pedal-steel virtuoso Buddy Emmons’ lost classic album, Emmons Guitar Inc.
“I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk, and all these melodies started coming to me,” says My Morning Jacket vocalist/guitarist Jim James. “For a long time, I didn’t have lyrics, but then I had a dream where I was in a cafe and a song was playing, and the lyrics to that song became the lyrics to ‘Time Waited’ – the melodies just fit perfectly. And the lyrics are about how flexible time is, how we can bend and warp time, especially if we are following our hearts, the universe and time itself can flow to work with us.”
Largely recorded at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, is finds My Morning Jacket deviating from their typically self-produced approach by teaming up with multiple GRAMMY Award-winner Brendan O’Brien. “Up until now I’ve never been able to let go and allow someone else to steer the ship,” James says. “It almost felt like an out-of-body experience to step back and give control over to someone who’s far more accomplished and made so many more records than us, but in the end I was able to enjoy the process maybe more than I ever have before.”
Speaking of the album's title, he continues: “I like how the word is indicates a sense of presence in the now – there’s no logic or rationale behind this record; it just is,” says James. “All these songs came into existence out of an attempt to connect with something beyond the human experiment, which for me is one of the most beautiful things about music – that connection with something larger than us, yet something we are all equally a part of.”
Tracklist:
- Out In The Open
- Half A Lifetime
- Everyday Magic
- I Can Hear Your Love
- Time Waited
- Beginning From The Ending
- Lemme Know
- Squid Ink
- Die For It
- River Road
is, is set for release on 21 March via ATO Records.
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