My Morning Jacket, 'Evil Urges' (ATO)

Bustin' out of Bonnaroo, Jim James and Co. craft an epic summer jam.

The trajectory of My Morning Jacket from humble folkies with jam-band tendencies into a group with Super Bowl halftime potential may seem an unlikely career arc. From the band's first album, 1999's The Tennessee Fire, singer/guitarist Jim James has couched his ghostly, reverb-soaked falsetto in American Gothicism. The tunes were pretty and a tad creepy, but somewhat shapeless.

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