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AT DAWN |  | Artist: My Morning Jacket
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 5069
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5055036260398
ASIN: B000088EIH
Release Date: July 1, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | At Dawn | | • | Lowdown | | • | The Way That He Sings | | • | Death Is The Easy Way | | • | Hopefully | | • | Bermuda Highway | | • | Honest Man | | • | X-mas Curtain | | • | Just Because I Do | | • | If It Smashes Down | | • | I Needed It Most | | • | Phone Went West | | • | Strangulation |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Let's not mess about: My Morning Jacket's IAt Dawn/I is a classic American rock record. There is nothing exactly revolutionary about the second album from the quintet from Louisville, Kentucky. Guitars strum and occasionally squall, vocals are of the high and lonesome variety, songs stretch out from poignant sketches into rambunctious shows of strength. Educated guesses suggest a few Neil Young albums might have found their way into the life of singer, guitarist and songwriter Jim James. p Elsewhere, someone could be reinventing music. It's doubtful, though, that they could make anything out of it quite as fragile, powerful and involving as IAt Dawn/I. Habitually linked with Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips) and Jonathan Donahue (Flaming Lips / Mercury Rev), James's plaintive, massively-reverbed vocals actually have as much in common with Roy Orbison and Gene Pitney--noble, heartbroken balladeers on the fringes of rock. Better still, his songs are the kind of marvels that Americana's pin-ups frequently promise yet so rarely deliver. p Highlighting individual tracks seems crude in the context of so many riches. Indeed, by the time "Phone Went West" has spent seven minutes resurrecting that most benighted of genres, white reggae, you'll be convinced My Morning Jacket are not just masters of the ancient arts, but the best band to saunter onto the world stage since the White Stripes. --IJohn Mulvey/I
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 If you love Neil Young! March 12, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great album!!! I bought it on the back of a couple of music magazine albums and im astonished that nobody else has submited a review of it yet. pIt is obvious that the band have been listening a lot to 70s Neil Young and it pays off. Lowdown and Bermuda Jighway are perfect rock songs with a little country mixed in.pIf you are currently into the boom of country rock bands out there at the moment i recommend this album or if you love 60s, 70s dylan, donavon, Neil Young buy this album for a fresh year 2003 twist on things.pI trucking love it!
Its in the way that he sings..... September 24, 2003
J. Neilson (Yorkshire, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
To answer yellowledbeds question, the reason this band are so good is Jim James. His voice is made all the more distinctive and poignant by the tonnes of reverb swathing everything.pYes, this is one of the best albums I have heard in the past couple of years and if you dont agree with me after hearing the title track (best listened to whilst reading the lyrics), you can sue me.
Atmospheric All American Music August 13, 2003
Mr. T. M. Rapley (London)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ive turned alot of my friends onto this band. The general consensus is that they are very good, why they are good is harder to explain. The music isn't anything overly original, the twang of country guitars, the Neil Young style vocals, the stories of good old America. Somehow though, My Morning Jacket effortlessly transport you to a smokey middle America bar, with a beer in your hand. Jim James is a cracking songwriter, and a wonderful singer, his voice is steeped in hurt and emotion but his songs are uplifting. Opener "At Dawn" sets the pace, while second song "Lowdown" is a pop classic. "Bermuda Highway", "Just Because I do", "Phone Went West" "Xmas Curtain" are the other standouts. My Morning Jacket deserve to join other top American bands such as R.E.M Pearl Jam where it's not exactly clear why they are so good, just that they are.
A skewed, impassioned rock album February 4, 2003
Michael Thomson
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Every good band needs something a tad unusual to differentiate them from the rest of the pack, but this exceedingly hirsute five-piece from Louisville, Kentucky go better than most. Their influences, so they say, range from Disney films and Muppets musical numbers, to the more conventional but nonetheless surprising Etta James and Nina Simone. They used to practice on a farm and their first successes sprouted from, of all places, the Netherlands. They're also partial to the occasional incongruous cover version (Rod Stewart, Bill Monroe). The lead singer is called Jim James and sounds a smidgen like a young Neil, er, Young.p"At Dawn" was one of two My Morning Jacket albums released in 2002 and is a delectable blend of southern-fried country, blues-y rock, semi-acoustic balladry and a Flaming Lips-style experimentalism that infuses the whole sound with a drifting, supernatural quality. The Kermit/Gonzo/Animal influence may not be readily apparent, but more discerning listeners would draw comparisons to Neil Young, a smattering of Lynard Skynard, and in places, souring atmospherics reminiscent of The Verve (albeit with a heavy country twang). The title track broods slowly from a hazy mélange of soft fuzz and percussion into a fiery acoustic mantra; "Lowdown" is relatively chirpy and buoyant; "Honest Man" is a sprawling, impassioned epic with muscle and groove.pAs a whole, this is a beatific, rather skewed, supremely melodic mini-masterpiece. Sometimes rocking out, but mainly melancholy and downbeat, they've already shown they have a diverse sound but can nonetheless retain their own recognisable style. Ready for the taking, this is a sure sign they'll be on to much bigger things in 2003.
I need it most April 19, 2006
View from nowhere (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very underated album and My Morning Jacket's best. Jim James captures an introspected mellow sound with his superb, emotional voice. You don't hear much about this band which is a shame, possibly because their songs often spiral on for longer than the three minutes of radio-air-space permits. Although they can create faster rhythmic rock songs, such as 'honest man', they are at their best with slower songs drenched in honey-like, resonating sound. At over 70 minutes this isn't a short album but I can listen to it from start to finish without feeling the need to skip tracks. The new album 'z' suffers from their attempt to round off the edges, make the songs shorter and more polished. I think this was a mistake, which is why this album with its overblown endings and alternative versions is superior.
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