My Morning Jacket to tour Australia in 2012
Come to a concert experience where Southern rock and psychedelic surrealism happily co-exist, come to the world of MY MORNING JACKET. The stellar live band from Louisville, Kentucky will hit Australia next April for two very special shows in Sydney and Melbourne as well as playing Byron Bay and Perth Blues festivals.
Performing songs from their vast array of tunes including this years acclaimed "Circuital", the five piece machine lead by the enigmatic Jim James, is sure to make it one April to remember. Last here in 2009 where the band hit the Big Day Out circuit, killed it at their own headline shows and supported some guy called Neil Young around the country, new and old fans alike will rejoice to the sounds of James, Blackenship, Hallahan, Broemel and Koster and their legendary live outings.
MY MORNING JACKET formed in the most organic fashion imaginable: friends who'd known each other since childhood making music in a shack located on a farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Their fame grew by word of mouth. Early albums such as "The Tennessee Fire", "At Dawn" and "It Still Moves" – recorded on the farm, Jim James's vocals bathed in the glorious natural reverb of the disused grain silo in which he recorded them – seduced critics and fans with their ethereal psychedelia and exultant rock crescendos. These early albums arguably coined the cosmic Americana currently purveyed by Fleet Foxes and a generation of similarly starry-eyed indie rockers. Locally with the Spunk released "greatest hits" EP, "Sweatbees" garnered from the first two records and early eps alerted those in the know in Australia to the magic on hand with the Jacket.
In 2005's the band released "Z", largely abandoning their trademark sounds, along with the studio on the farm and its magical grain silo. Jim James put down the guitar, writing much of the new album on keyboards and a bizarre 80s synthesiser called the Omnichord. Recorded in a mansion with Stone Roses producer John Leckie, "Z" dialed back the classic rock aura of the Jacket's earlier albums, drawing magic from soulful reveries, spectral fairground themes, and even that eternal critical bete noir, rock-reggae. Extensive touring brought a wider audience and major critical acclaim and their legendary 4 hour set at Bonnaroo cementing them as "the" festival band.
Performing songs from their vast array of tunes including this years acclaimed "Circuital", the five piece machine lead by the enigmatic Jim James, is sure to make it one April to remember. Last here in 2009 where the band hit the Big Day Out circuit, killed it at their own headline shows and supported some guy called Neil Young around the country, new and old fans alike will rejoice to the sounds of James, Blackenship, Hallahan, Broemel and Koster and their legendary live outings.
MY MORNING JACKET formed in the most organic fashion imaginable: friends who'd known each other since childhood making music in a shack located on a farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Their fame grew by word of mouth. Early albums such as "The Tennessee Fire", "At Dawn" and "It Still Moves" – recorded on the farm, Jim James's vocals bathed in the glorious natural reverb of the disused grain silo in which he recorded them – seduced critics and fans with their ethereal psychedelia and exultant rock crescendos. These early albums arguably coined the cosmic Americana currently purveyed by Fleet Foxes and a generation of similarly starry-eyed indie rockers. Locally with the Spunk released "greatest hits" EP, "Sweatbees" garnered from the first two records and early eps alerted those in the know in Australia to the magic on hand with the Jacket.
In 2005's the band released "Z", largely abandoning their trademark sounds, along with the studio on the farm and its magical grain silo. Jim James put down the guitar, writing much of the new album on keyboards and a bizarre 80s synthesiser called the Omnichord. Recorded in a mansion with Stone Roses producer John Leckie, "Z" dialed back the classic rock aura of the Jacket's earlier albums, drawing magic from soulful reveries, spectral fairground themes, and even that eternal critical bete noir, rock-reggae. Extensive touring brought a wider audience and major critical acclaim and their legendary 4 hour set at Bonnaroo cementing them as "the" festival band.
Next up was 2008's "Evil Urges", the bands most successful record up until then. With its breathless switching from genre to genre and its overload of ideas some of the album's most outré moments wrong-footed some of the more conservative elements of the group's long-term fan base, who wondered why Jim James was now indulging in lurid Prince-gone-metal vamps. The show goes on however, with the sales to prove it, and the band stepped up another notch in their home country.
2011 saw the release of "Circuital". The group once again found themselves building their own studio in their hometown, this time transforming an abandoned gymnasium with the aid of Decemberists producer Tucker Martine and several rolls of carpeting they bought from a nearby Salvation Army store. Largely recorded live, the new album is testament to the bands unrelenting desire to grow musically and stretch the boundaries to deliver the high end sonic art that is their chosen path in the ongoing tales of My Morning Jacket.
Do not miss a minute of MY MORNING JACKET.
TUESDAY APRIL 3RD – ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY - Tickets available now @ lovepolice.com.au/tours & ticketek.com.au
WEDNESDAY APRIL 4TH – PALACE THEATRE, MELBOURNE - Tickets available now @ lovepolice.com.au/tours & Oztix.com.au
2011 saw the release of "Circuital". The group once again found themselves building their own studio in their hometown, this time transforming an abandoned gymnasium with the aid of Decemberists producer Tucker Martine and several rolls of carpeting they bought from a nearby Salvation Army store. Largely recorded live, the new album is testament to the bands unrelenting desire to grow musically and stretch the boundaries to deliver the high end sonic art that is their chosen path in the ongoing tales of My Morning Jacket.
Do not miss a minute of MY MORNING JACKET.
TUESDAY APRIL 3RD – ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY - Tickets available now @ lovepolice.com.au/tours & ticketek.com.au
WEDNESDAY APRIL 4TH – PALACE THEATRE, MELBOURNE - Tickets available now @ lovepolice.com.au/tours & Oztix.com.au