Its been five years since My Morning Jacket released their last album The Waterfall – their longest gap since their 1999 Tennesse Fire debut. The Kentucky five-piece has posted a teaser video with 30 seconds of new music (below) and they will be releasing a new album this Friday (7/10) via ATO.
The Waterfall II was massively inspired by the band’s idyllic surroundings in Stinson Beach, CA — and a sense of charmed isolation that frontman Jim James likened to “living on our own little moon.” There, the Kentucky-bred five-piece ended up creating over two dozen songs at the mountaintop studio known as Panoramic House. Though they flirted with the idea of putting out what would have been a triple album, the band ultimately decided that less would be more at the time and divided the project into two halves, releasing the first segment as The Waterfall: a 2015 full-length that earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. My Morning Jacket are now set to share the second half of the project as The Waterfall II, an unforeseen and timely continuation of a psychic and sonic journey begun long ago.
Fans will get to hear The Waterfall II in its entirety during an online listening party being hosted by the band on Facebook and YouTube at 9pm ET this Thursday, July 9 before the album arrives at all DSPs on July 10. Album pre-orders, including both standard and deluxe versions featuring 180-gram vinyl with Zoetrope labels in a gatefold foil jacket, are available now. The Waterfall II will be released on CD and vinyl on August 28.
Jim James said in a statement, “As so many of us feel out of tune and long for the world to be a better place, we have to look to nature and the animals and learn from them: learn to love, accept, move on, and respect each other. We gotta work for it and change our ways before it’s too late, and get in harmony with love and equality for all of humanity and for nature too.”
— my morning jacket (@mymorningjacket) July 7, 2020
Tracklisting:
Spinning My Wheels
Still Thinkin
Climbing The Ladder
Feel You
Beautiful Love (Wasn’t Enough)
Magic Bullet
Run It
Wasted
Welcome Home
The First Time
