Thursday, June 19, 2008

World may succumb to My Morning Jacket's 'Evil Urges'

They're going at least to 11

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NEW YORK - The change in My Morning Jacket from their last studio album, the breakthrough "Z," to their latest, "Evil Urges," is not drastic: It's not as if they brought in Timbaland to overhaul their sound or abandoned their scruffy look for more fashionable duds.

Still, much of the buzz surrounding the soulful rock collective's "Evil Urges" has centered on its polished sound and pop potential. The grooves aren't as meandering, the jamming doesn't sound as if it's being pumped out from some neighborhood dive, as it sometimes had. Even frontman and main songwriter Jim James talks about how it sounds "less organic."

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY AP Music Writer

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