Circuital
by My Morning Jacket

Don't understand how this album is so low, its amazing! Strong thoughout.

I really dig the first two songs.
Not to diss on the quality of some of the later songs, but it's sort of surprising that only two of the songs were written for the Muppet movie.

Always suprised this hasn't made its way to the top 50 of 2011. Really great stuff here; the title track is practically perfect, and everything else here is nothing less then great.

The spinning circles of dead bodies in the night. The insistent creek in the floor boards powdered with bed crumbs. So subtle yet so disturbed. Haunted, dark and bleak. This album is a work of art while remaining true to purpose of all good music, to be enjoyed. The sparse arrangements of 'Victory Dance' will lead you astray into it's dreary tapestry. This is an album that will have you lost in the woods. When the drums pound alone and the moments of silence... something that stirs the imagination indeed. But even after I say all this... the album has great songwriting. There are moments amongst all this where the need to write a catchy song breaks through. 'Outta My System' a tale of the young at heart meeting the tar and trash of the heart, the constant repetition has you singing along on the first listen! 'Holdin On To Black Metal' also provides light hearted humour amongst it all. Really, it is an achievement to pull that off considering the rest of the album. This one is an abandoned car at the side of the reservoir, left to the elements while the odd light still flickers inside it. The inside strewn with trinkets off the young couple who once claimed it as their own.

From covecove 07/29/2011 01:52 | #25057

Fsr more mature and atmospheric than Urges, love Jim's voice and the particular texture it ceates, I'm really becoming a huge fan of these guys...