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Written by Tyson Schuetze
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Thursday, 12 October 2006 |
My Morning Jacket
Okonokos
ATO
A My Morning Jacket live show is a spectacle of enthusiasm. Their songs, weird and mysterious, become elongated and elaborated, delivered with no pretensions and a huge presence. Okonokos, recorded from two nights last year at The Fillmore in San Francisco, is a concert album as it should be: retrospective, immediate and resounding.
It is My Morning Jacket without the confines or benefits of the studio. Starting with perhaps MMJ’s most hypnotic song, Z’s “Wordless Chorus,” the first disc is a beautiful display of sequencing. The crowd and drummer Patrick Hallahan usher in the sublime “One Big Holiday,” as Jim James’ vocals strain and crack to match the climatic intro. “I Will Sing You Songs” slows the pace down to a precious crawl, as the reverb wraps around James’ fading vocals. The second disc is highlighted by “Xmas Curtain” and the show-closer “Megateetah.” Throughout Okonokos the reconfigured line-up feels certain in their chemistry, but it is clearly the tracks from It Still Moves that resonate the most. Tyson Schuetze
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