My Morning Jacket return with their seventh full-length album, ‘The Waterfall,’ via Spunk Records / Capitol Records. This release will mark the band's first studio album on Capitol Records, and fifth on Spunk.
Recorded in Stinson Beach CA, ‘The Waterfall’ is the follow-up to the Grammy-nominated ‘Circuital,’ which was ranked among 2011's best albums by publications such as Rolling Stone, Paste, MOJO, and Uncut.
On the new release there are moments that reach back to early albums such as 2001's ‘At Dawn’ and 2003's ‘It Still Moves,’ the record that gave the band a much broader audience. But the experimentation that marked 2004's ‘Z,’ 2008's ‘Evil Urges’ and James' 2013 solo album, ‘Regions of Light and Sound of God’ is clearly in effect.
‘The Waterfall’ sounds like history and decades colliding, like a record made by fervent music fans in search of that tingle up the spine. Inveterate music geeks will hear echoes of vintage rock and pop as MMJ continues to honor its influences without aping any of them; The Waterfall sounds like nothing else but also warmly familiar.