My Morning Jacket: Circuital – review

(V2)After a decade spent excelling in the kind of hazy melodies now offered by the likes of Fleet Foxes, Louisville's My Morning Jacket took a curious detour with 2008's funky, softly rocking Evil Urges. Their sixth album finds them back on track. Circuital combines their experience with a rediscovered youthful zest, a theme Jim James visits in the lyrics: "I am older day to day, going back to my childhood ways." Recorded in, of all places, a gym, the songs frame James's plaintive, widescreen w...

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