My Morning Jacket Announce ‘Is’ Album Produced Via Brendan O’Brien

My Morning Jacket introduced on Wednesday morning (Jan. 15) that their tenth studio album, Is, will probably be launched by means of ATO Information on March 21. The gang’s first new full-length LP in additional than 3 years used to be produced by means of Grammy-winner Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam).

The Louisville-bred staff that has usually self-produced their albums up to now most commonly recorded Is at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles with O’Brien. Lead singer/guitarist Jim James — who has produced or co-produced all in their studio albums since 1999 — defined in a remark that their pastime in operating with the acclaimed manufacturer got here from a “newfound willingness to open up their procedure and contain an out of doors ingenious pressure.”

“Up till now I’ve by no means been in a position to let pass and make allowance somebody else to persuade the send,” James stated within the remark. “It nearly felt like an out-of-body revel in to step again and provides keep watch over over to somebody who’s way more completed and made such a lot of extra information than us, however finally I used to be in a position to benefit from the procedure perhaps greater than I ever have earlier than.”

The primary culmination of the ones efforts is to be had now by means of the gauzy lead unmarried “Time Waited,” which dropped on Wednesday along side a Danny Clinch-directed video. The impressionistic clip from the photographer/director identified for his paintings with the Foo Combatants and Pearl Jam options a mixture of efficiency photos and floating plants with archival pictures from right through the band’s quarter-century-plus historical past.

“I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a stroll, and a majority of these melodies began coming to me,” stated James concerning the tune that used to be impressed by means of a pattern of a piano phase the singer discovered on pedal metal grasp Friend Emmons’ vintage 1969 Emmons Guitar Inc. album.

“For a very long time, I didn’t have lyrics, however then I had a dream the place I used to be in a café and a tune used to be taking part in, and the lyrics to that tune turned into the lyrics to ‘Time Waited’ – the melodies simply are compatible completely,” he added. “And the lyrics are about how versatile time is, how we will be able to bend and deform time, particularly if we’re following our hearts, the universe and time itself can float to paintings with us.”

“Smartly they are saying time waits for no person pricey/ And it takes close to dying to turn one, yeah/ However time waited… for you and me,” James sings over a hypnotic piano and delicate drums within the first verse earlier than the monitor expands into one of the most staff’s patented psychedelic pop slow-burns.

In keeping with the discharge, earlier than teaming up with O’Brien for the classes for his or her follow-up to 2021’s self-titled 9th album, they’d recorded greater than 100 demos to land at the ultimate 10 that made the reduce.

The overall listing comprises: “Out within the Open,” “Part a Lifetime,” “On a regular basis Magic,” “I Can Pay attention Your Love,” “Time Waited,” “Starting From the Finishing,” “Lemme Know,” “Squid Ink,” “Die For It” and “River Street.”

“It feels in point of fact nice to have a selection of songs all of us love this a lot, and to understand that we labored as arduous as we in all probability may on them,” James stated. “Expectantly the ones songs will probably be useful to other people and provides them some more or less peace as they are trying to maintain the madness of the arena – as a result of that’s what track does for me, and doing the similar for others is all the time my largest dream come true.”

The band additionally stated they are going to introduced excursion dates in beef up of the album quickly. Sooner than that, they are going to head all the way down to Florida for the following version in their three-night My Morning Jacket’s One Giant Vacation pageant at Miramar Seaside’s Seascape Hotel from April 3-5.

Watch the “Time Waited” video and try the band’s album announcement underneath.