Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Classic rock devotees My Morning Jacket have made it to double figures. The Kentucky-formed band\u2019s new album is their 10th. Is (stylised is) represents a fresh start following 2021\u2019s My Morning Jacket, a 60-minute sprawler recorded amid uncertainties about their future. That one featured tracks dredged from jamming sessions with titles such as \u201cComplex\u201d and \u201cLucky to Be Alive\u201d. This one has jaunty songs called \u201cEveryday Magic\u201d and \u201cBeginning from the Ending\u201d.The album is their first with an outside producer, Brendan O\u2019Brien, a seasoned hand at the top-end of the rock circuit whose previous credits include Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam. His role in the studio was previously taken by the band\u2019s frontman Jim James, the chief architect of their throwback sound. He and his bandmates evoke the liberated groove of a bygone era, back when hair was shaggy and riffs rang out like cosmic truths. They do so not in the style of epigones, but dreamers for whom the past is as vividly alive as the present.\u201cPlease take a message and put it to a beat,\u201d James sings on \u201cHalf a Lifetime\u201d. His own message boils down to the hippy credo that love is all, uttered in a mellow voice made bigger by reverb and double-tracking. Unexceptional phrasemaking about time waiting for no one and life going on is made to sound warmer and more meaningful than it looks in the cold light of the printed page.\u201cOut in the Open\u201d finds the singer having a quasi-religious experience with a special someone as dawn breaks. Reminiscent of U2 and The War on Drugs, the music is epic in scope but tidier-sounding than the band\u2019s usual style. \u201cEveryday Magic\u201d brings a loose, funky sensibility to catchy soft-rock. \u201cI Can Hear Your Love\u201d is a feathery romantic song with a twee hint of doo-wop.The best moments come when they loosen the shackles. \u201cSquid Ink\u201d is uproariously old-school funk-rock, while \u201cDie for It\u201d unleashes a psychedelic blaze of guitars. Closing track \u201cRiver Road\u201d has a twisty, brooding intensity. It makes the genially upbeat mood of the earlier songs seem forced.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2018Is\u2019 is released by ATO Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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