Review: My Morning Jacket : Evil Urges

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USATODAY.com - Pop Candy found this 6/9/2008 on www.pitchforkmedia.com [flag]
My Morning Jacket have refused to remain creatively static, a decision that's helped them map a clear and wonderful upward trajectory over their first decade, but does them few favors on their baffling new album. [link]

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A few new tunes for the week
Published 6/9/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
... ? Evil Urges may have gotten a 4.7 review from Pitchfork (the horror!), but that only makes me want to hear it more. The P-fork reviewer chastises the band's "glassy-eyed yacht-pop" on the new record and says, "After listening to Urges , I wonder if My Morning Jacket might just be satisfied following in the footsteps of labelmates Dave Matthews Band : nestling into a comfortable niche and aiming for the Starbucks carousel with rootsy New Age romanticism." Ouch. If that's not your scene, you may want to check out the new ...

3 Out Of 4 Critics Give Into My Morning Jacket's "Urges" [The Last Word]
Published 6/10/2008 by Dan Gibson at Idolator
... • "With its patient, synthetic gleam slithering around James' lusty hoodoo, 'Touch Me, Pt. 2' is My Morning Jacket's Moroder moment, bringing a highly frustrating record to a close with the line 'Oh, this feeling is wonderful/ Don't turn it off.' If it hadn't been such an exhausting ride to get there, I might not want to." [Pitchfork] ...

Jim James shows me the YouTube light...
Published 6/13/2008 by Dodge (noreply@blogger.com) at My Old Kentucky Blog
... , does. Jim is a sensitive guy, and he's put that on display in this album. Maybe that's not what everyone wanted or needed. I'm not really sure. I think the Touch Me... songs on Urges are phenomenal and I am actually one of the people that flat-out loves Highly Suspicious - probably the song Pitchfork and I differ in opinion on the most. ...