My Morning Jacket Big Decisions (March’15) starts deceptively slowly but then the big fuzzy guitar comes in to assist the all in and it’s hold on to your seatbelts as this monolith takes flight. At times big seventies band influences threaten to overwhelm but this is too honest a tune for that to happen. Instead some arresting vocals grab your attention as he sings from the gut of something both personal and paradoxically with universal resonance.
A song about the emotional toll that’s paid when others eschew responsibility for decisions, it clocks in at the magic three and a half minutes and there’s no fat on this baby. This is a fucking big, booming, crackerjack track. Fuck me sideways if Big Decisions isn’t one of the best indie songs of 2015.
“Only get one chance but you seem to
always think twice,
And I'm getting so tired of trying to always be nice”
And I'm getting so tired of trying to always be nice”
My Morning
Jacket are an alternative rock band from Louisville, Kentucky rocking out since
1998. “Big Decisions” is the lead single from their seventh album “Waterfall”
(May’15).
Shit you need to know:
This review thought Big Decisions captures “...My
Morning Jacket in all its glory.”
The band said the new album Waterfall
sounds like the sounds of, “history and decades colliding, like a record made by
fervant music fans in search of that tingle up the spine,” and has, “...echoes of vintage rock and pop.”
On the topic of influences the singer said ..."We all grew up listening to Zeppelin, the Stones, and AC/DC."
The band have mentioned liking old school hip-hop and Danzig, Scorpion, Europe and the Muppets Soundtrack.
The band played a four hour set at Bonaroo 2008 that incuded 35 songs and a guest appearance by Kirk Hammett of Metallica.
The epic My Morning Jacket songs are I’m Amazed and One Big Holiday.
Shit you need to know:
Consequence
of Sound thought Big Decisions is, “...a gorgeous, infectious rocker, flush with soaring hooks.”
On the topic of influences the singer said ..."We all grew up listening to Zeppelin, the Stones, and AC/DC."
The band have mentioned liking old school hip-hop and Danzig, Scorpion, Europe and the Muppets Soundtrack.
My Morning Jacket have their own music festivalin
Mexico. In 2015 the festival featured Band of Horses, Dr. Dog, The War on Drugs
and Sylvan Esso.
The band played a four hour set at Bonaroo 2008 that incuded 35 songs and a guest appearance by Kirk Hammett of Metallica.
The epic My Morning Jacket songs are I’m Amazed and One Big Holiday.
Slippery seconds belongs to Brooklyn indie rockers Fort Lean and their classic rock influenced Cut To The Chase (2014) from their debut album Quiet Day (2014). Cut to the minute mark for the all in if you're so inclined.
“You think it's cute to
carry on
Well, it's not
Oh, don't you know?
You should enjoy this while you can
Because it won't last”
Well, it's not
Oh, don't you know?
You should enjoy this while you can
Because it won't last”
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