Significant longplayers from the past
4 May 2025
With last March’s IS album veteran Kentucky rockers
MY MORNING JACKET launched their 10th one.
And today 10 years ago, on 4 May 2015, they released their 7th longplayer,
titled THE WATERFALL. Vintage MMJ with their sonic sparkliness and tremendous
vocal harmonies upfront.
Artwork ‘IS’
The Waterfall explores “love, loss, philosophical statements, and naturalistic imagery,”
while its musical contents are diverse, consisting of “existentialist R&B, nature-boy folk, wigged-out psychedelia, and jam-friendly arena rock.” The title “is a metaphor for how life
is constantly beating you down, and you really have to take time to stop it and get through.“. Likewise, the album’s central theme is rebirth and renewal.
It’s one of their most successful, critically and chart-wise, #11 in the US.
Rolling Stone said “It’s the band’s sunniest, and trippiest, album,” giving
acclaim to their ability to “tap the past without sounding like throwbacks.”
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