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Rating: - I Love This Record
I believe "Evil Urges" is the best MMJ record yet and highly recommend it. I purchased "Z" last year based on one song and really enjoyed the entire album. I also have "It Still Moves" and "The Tennessee Fire". It seems to me that every MMJ record has been an improvement on the previous record, and that is quite an accomplishment.

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Rating: - You're missing the point
I think this is a brilliant album and all the negative reviews are coming from early die-hard fans who don't want the band's sound to change. The truth is things do change and in this case from good to excellent. I have to say this is one of my favorite albums of 2008 and key words here are fun and risk-taking. Don't let the negative reviews turn you away from this, but also don't expect that early MMJ sound... these boys have grown up...

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Rating: - MMJ refuse to stay in the box
It's clear after listening to MMJ's latest studio album, Evil Urges, that Jim James has no intentions of letting his band be painted into a corner. The band could have very easily have accepted their place as a southern jam band with a killer live show and made a very comfortable and profitable living. But Jim James and company are all about pushing their music forward and exploring new territory. That was clear on 2005's "Z" which still defies easy categorization. Things aren't quite as spacey and weird on Evil Urges, but the band has made it clear that they aren't going to revert to jam band territory.

While this album isn't as genre defying as "Z", it still boasts excellent ... Read More

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Rating: - My Morning Jacket crafts their strongest album to date
I've had this album for a couple weeks now, and I can't stop listening to it. I'm finding that it has a lot more staying power for me than most albums seem to, due in large part to the narrative strain that runs through it as much as the genre-blending music itself. Obviously everyone who listens to an album like this will have a somewhat different response to it, but here are some my initial impressions of it:

The first song plays like a mission statement for the album, offering the fairly typical secularist ethical perspective that what some call "evil urges" are really perfectly natural and simply "a part of the human way", that "ain't evil if (they) ain't hurting anybody". The ... Read More

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Rating: - Groundbreaking
MMJ has broken new ground with this album. It is difficult to describe the sound they have captured on this album... sort of like early Prince/MMJ hybrid. They bring a lot of funk and energy on almost every track, and have pretty much eliminated the heavy reverb on the vocals (Which was getting a little old IMO). I still like the old MMJ sound, but this album is loaded with creativity and groundbreaking/genre-blending music.