My Morning Jacket was content to let the music do the talking Thursday night. Stepping onstage at the Factory in Deep Ellum and making, from all I could discern digging around prior to the show, its first appearance in Dallas proper in 14 years, the band — led by wild-maned...
My Morning Jacket let the music speak for itself at the Factory in Deep Ellum, April 28, 2022.Stepping onstage at the Factory in Deep Ellum and making, from all I could discern digging around prior to the show, its first appearance in Dallas proper in 14 years, the band — led by wild-maned Jim James and his intergalactic falsetto — simply plugged in and let it rip.
There’s also the matter of creative retrenching on the band’s self-titled ninth studio album, released last year. The 11 songs there recapture some of the woolly brilliance of the band’s unimpeachable early run, downplaying some of the funkier, more esoteric impulses found on efforts like 2008’s Evil Urges or 2011’s Circuital.
James and Broemel frequently dueled, heads bowed and nearly touching as their fingers raced along the fretboards, sending flurries of notes spiraling through the air. Hallahan’s senses-rattling backbeat meshed with Blankenship’s nimble rhythms, as Koster’s keyboard flourishes knit everything together. The band, simply put, was locked in tighter than a bank vault.
The opening six-song run, moving from the just-released “Regularly Scheduled Programming” to “Circuital” to “It Beats 4 U” to “Wordless Chorus” to “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2” to “At Dawn” was a breathless survey of the breadth of My Morning Jacket’s capabilities, stacking one epic atop another and capturing the arc of the band’s evolution.
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