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FYI: the rainbow colour is now advertised "green orange marble" vinyl, and looks rather "brownish" .... the brownish version ... hmmz
My Morning Jacket are releasing their new album, on August
28. Out via ATO Records, The Waterfall II was massively
inspired by the band’s idyllic surroundings in Stinson Beach, CA
— and a sense of charmed isolation that frontman Jim James
likened to “living on our own little moon.” There, the Kentucky-
bred five-piece ended up creating over two dozen songs at the
mountaintop studio known as Panoramic House. Though they
flirted with the idea of putting out what would have been a
triple album, the band ultimately decided that less would be
more at the time and divided the project into two halves,
releasing the first segment as The Waterfall: a 2015 full-length
that earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative
Music Album. My Morning Jacket are now set to share the
second half of the project as The Waterfall II, an unforeseen
and timely continuation of a psychic and sonic journey begun
long ago.
Like its predecessor, The Waterfall II mines its mood of dreamy
contemplation from certain heartbreak James had recently
experienced, including the demise of a monumental
relationship. Unfolding in a loosely threaded narrative of loss
and recovery, the album conjures an indelible pain but never
drifts into despair, gracefully conveying James’s message that
“there is hope beyond the pain and loss, if you learn to flow
with life like water.”
