Z

Product Details

Artist : My Morning Jacket
Format : Enhanced
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 8808821601282
Label : BMG Japan
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-05-05
UPC : 880882160128

ASIN : B0010VHXN0

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Wordless Chorus
2. It Beats 4 U
3. Gideon
4. What a Wonderful Man
5. Off the Record
6. Into the Woods
7. Anytime
8. Lay Low
9. Knot Comes Loose
10. Dondante
11. [CD-ROM Track]

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Editorial Reviews

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Two years and a pair of band members have passed since My Morning Jacket's last album, and the respite seems to have reinvented the Louisville, Ky., band and its leader Jim James. Shelved are the boogie-soaked country and hard-stomping metal of the first three records--assuring that all links to Lynyrd Skynyrd are hereby obsolete--and the sleek maturation of James's wailing, echoing falsetto may have even nullified the Neil Young comparisons. Using the guitar as a complement more than as a weapon, songwriter James has simplified the sound where keyboards take the lead and choruses play like a '70s AM radio. While songs like "Anytime" and "What a Wonderful Man" channel the old MMJ sound, they do so with less chaos and more spontaneity. That's the trend for the record's best: "Wordless Chorus" and its infectious "aaaah" refrain, the Hawaii Five-O-riffed ska of "Off the Record" and a Stranglers-minded carnival waltz, "Into the Woods." Serving as a pop-music paradigm that change is good, Z is ambitious, groundbreaking and downright impeccable. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews

Best Album of 2005 (2006-08-19)

To assert that anything from this album is rip-off or unoriginal is ludicrous. Absolutely, you can hear the influences of southern rock, prog, jam-bands and some other genres thrown in, but the genius is taking those influences and creating something new and exciting.If this isn't one of the very best albums of '05, I don't know what is. I haven't stopped listenting to it for the past year and I enjoy it more and get more out of the songs every time I do. Moreover, the songs translate surprisinly well to the live show and I am eagerly awaiting the proposed DVD.'Z' may be the most original and progressive record to come out in the past 5 years not recorded by a band named Radiohead. An absolute masterpiece and highly recommended.

....or 7.5 out of 10 (2006-01-12)

This cd may be one of the best of 2005, but it's certainly not breaking any new ground in terms of creating something completely original.The record is fresh, groovy, and compelling, it takes what's been done before, and make it sound new again.Frankly speaking, if you know The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Neil Young, Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin, you will hear these bands in the 10 songs on the cd. Whether you like it or not, depends on whether you think its a rip-off or an influence.I think its a good starting point for the band, experimentally, but I hope for something more original the next record.

Serious candidate Best Album 2005 (2005-11-28)

Seriously this cd is phenomenal lot of nice riff that you will memorize forever all the trax are good...good good stuff for those Louisville guys...

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