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Show C-7 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 2-4, 2008 My Morning Jacket's 'Evil Urges' foresee itself becoming a top 40 mercial breakthrough. band anytime soon, nor is it ' But to change things up this time around. My Morning Jacket striving to be. "It depends on what you think not only went with another proof as the next level, too, because ducer but decided to record the I think we did go to the next CD in Manhattan - in an level over the last two or three uncomfortable, cramped studio, years. It's an incremental thing, as the band describes it, which By NEKESA M LIMB I which is important to us versus kept them focused on the job at MOODY going from however many hand. AP Music Writer records to millions and millions "It was really a hard record. of records," says Broemel. Parts of it were fun, but it wasn't NEW YORK (AP) - The "I think that's what people a fun record: We weren't sitting change in My Morning Jacket are thinking, like, "They're going around laughing," James says, as from their last studio album, the to break off and be a household they all laugh as if on a private breakthrough "Z," to their lat- name,1 but I don't know. People joke. "It was like we went in est, "Evil Urges," is not drastic: always see us and they're like, everyday for 12-hour shifts ... it It's not as if they brought in "What band are you guys?' and Timbaland to overhaul their we're like, My Morning Jacket, was much different from any sound or abandoned their and they're like. 'Who?"' he other record in that all the other scruffy look for more fashion- recounts, as the rest of the band records were spaced out." "It wasn't pretty all the time able duds. laughs. "That happens all the (but) it was beautiful in hindStill, much of the buzz sur- time, and 1 don't think we care." sight," says Hallahan. rounding the soulful rock collecProducer Joe Chiccarelli, who It was quite different from how tive's "Evil Urges" has centered has worked with superstar acts they wrote the music for the on its polished sound and pop like U2 and Elton John as well as record - in scenic Colorado, potential. The grooves aren't as Beck, Rufus Wainright and Tori meandering, the jamming does- Amos, says "Evil Urges" is the where the group communed for n't sound as if it's being pumped most "instantly accessible ... a month not only to get inspired out from some neighborhood groove-oriented batch of songs about music, but to get closer together as a unit. dive, as it sometimes had. Even that the band has done." "I think it was special because frontman and main songwriter The songs, mostly written by we go on tour together and that's Jim James talks about how it James, still have that potent mix- just a constant moving thing, sounds "less organic." ture of funk and rock, they bring whereas in Colorado we stayed "I fee! like this is our tightest in more musical elements, and, in one place and just marinated record in a rhythmic sense." he as Chiccarelli explains, less of a says. "I feel really happy and jam-band feel that had defined in that place, literally," says Broemer. "We cooked a lot, we proud about it." the band in its early days. played a lot of basketball ... and All of which has led to specu"When I heard the demos and lation that this is the fivesome's I was just instantly taken by the we made music together. More attempt to finally make a dent fact that (James) was trying to importantly, because we were so into rock's mainstream: Though say things in a more concise secluded. I think the isolation the Louisville. Kentucky-based manner, that songs weren't as forced us to realize why we're group has been beloved by crit- long or as rambling, they were still in this band together, why ics and has a feverish fan base more focused and to the point," we're on this quest." And that quest. in that has made them a successful he says. Chiccarelli's eyes. doesn't louring band, their biggest-sellJames, 30, says the band not include plans lo become a coming CD was 20().Vs acclaimed " Z " - 216.000, respectable numbers only wanted to try a different mercial band with radio-ready for an indie band but nowhere sound, but a more seamless hits. sound as well: He describes the "(The goal is) not to make the near close to mainstream. band's drumming as so tight that songs disposable or slight or pop With the release of "Evil "sometimes you're maybe conUrges," they've already gotten fused if it's a real person play- songs," Chiccarelli says. "I don't think the band is capable of more exposure. The band ing." making that. I just don't think it's recently appeared on "Saturday "I feel like ' Z ' was a bridge in them, and I think if that's what Night Live," booked its first gig kind of between more of the they wanted to do they could do at Radio City Music Hall and plans to close out the year with a older sound and to more of a that because they are kind of New Year's Eve performance at newer sound ... they still have all fans of a lot of different music." Madison Square Garden. The of elements but it's progression." Besides, as the band sees it, their CD, released this month, sold James says as he and the band sit career has been gaining momenabout 50,000 copies for a top 10 in a friend's apartment in tum with each album - slow and debut on Billboard's Top 200 Manhattan to discuss the record steady, always on the rise. And a couple of months before its they're hoping that trajectory album chart. release. continues. But while their songs may be "We've been pretty lucky to For the CD "Z," the .band a bit more refined, and could be worked with producer John continually go up," James says. more palatable to radio stations, Leckie, whose credits include "I feel like there's peaks and valthe group - which includes Radiohead, and recorded the leys in everyone's career and the James, guitarist Carl Broemel, ba^si&t Tora-Blankenship, drum- CD in picturesque upstate New goal is to keep being honest and result: an album that make hit records and let the mJgji"-Pa-tricic Hallahan -and- k e y " 3 T h was a critical triumph and a com- chips fall where they may." boardist Bo Kosler - doesn't urner 1 imp Preserve to DVD... * Spa * Pirate * fear factor * American Idbf * Teddy 'Bear Tea * Cheer/Tom Tom * Movie Star/Oscar * "Bunco Bunny * BaBy Sfurwer... *Video/VHS * 8mm/16mm * Photos/Slides, etc... Video / Photography * * * * ...To Name, a Jew! 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