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Jim James — tackling violence and hatred with love and peace

The My Morning Jacket frontman's latest is Eternally Even

Jim James's Eternally Even is darker with a lo-fi quality of funk and soul.
Jim James's Eternally Even is darker with a lo-fi quality of funk and soul.

Jim James is up to his usual tricks on his second solo album, Eternally Even, and it’s just what humanity needs.

Video:

"Same Old Lie"

...off of Jim James's <em>Eternally Even</em>

...off of Jim James's Eternally Even

The My Morning Jacket frontman looks to heal the world through his latest collection. Tackling violence and hatred with love and peace — and maybe some ’70s psych-fi mixed with a touch of soulful R&B. “Oh I hate to burst your bubble/ Times change/ Entire lives reduced to rubble,” sings James over a tangible bass line and drowning synth on opening track “Hide in Plain Sight.”

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Eternally Even is delightfully different from James’s previous album Regions of Light and Sound of God (and any MMJ album, for that matter). It’s darker with a lo-fi quality of funk and soul. Songs such as “True Nature” take you back to 1974 on a stroll through the streets of Chicago with Curtis Mayfield — shuffling drums, horns, fuzzy keyboards — the whole shebang.

James delivers musical healing through his instrumentals, but he also does so lyrically. Reaching out to mortality, the 38-year-old unites the relationship between life and death on closing track, “Eternally Even,” softly speaking over spacious instrumentals, “Truth be told/ There’s gold in growing older/ We open like the roses to the sun/ or the hand of a child/ Reaching up to mother over time.”

  • Record: Eternally Even
  • Artist: Jim James
  • Label: ATO, Capitol
  • Songs: (1) Hide in Plain Sight (2) Same Old Lie (3) Here in Spirit (4) The World's Smiling Now (5) We Ain't Getting Any Younger Pt. 1 (6) We Ain't Getting Any Younger Pt. 2 (7) True Nature (8) In the Moment (9) Eternally Even

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Jim James's Eternally Even is darker with a lo-fi quality of funk and soul.
Jim James's Eternally Even is darker with a lo-fi quality of funk and soul.

Jim James is up to his usual tricks on his second solo album, Eternally Even, and it’s just what humanity needs.

Video:

"Same Old Lie"

...off of Jim James's <em>Eternally Even</em>

...off of Jim James's Eternally Even

The My Morning Jacket frontman looks to heal the world through his latest collection. Tackling violence and hatred with love and peace — and maybe some ’70s psych-fi mixed with a touch of soulful R&B. “Oh I hate to burst your bubble/ Times change/ Entire lives reduced to rubble,” sings James over a tangible bass line and drowning synth on opening track “Hide in Plain Sight.”

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Eternally Even is delightfully different from James’s previous album Regions of Light and Sound of God (and any MMJ album, for that matter). It’s darker with a lo-fi quality of funk and soul. Songs such as “True Nature” take you back to 1974 on a stroll through the streets of Chicago with Curtis Mayfield — shuffling drums, horns, fuzzy keyboards — the whole shebang.

James delivers musical healing through his instrumentals, but he also does so lyrically. Reaching out to mortality, the 38-year-old unites the relationship between life and death on closing track, “Eternally Even,” softly speaking over spacious instrumentals, “Truth be told/ There’s gold in growing older/ We open like the roses to the sun/ or the hand of a child/ Reaching up to mother over time.”

  • Record: Eternally Even
  • Artist: Jim James
  • Label: ATO, Capitol
  • Songs: (1) Hide in Plain Sight (2) Same Old Lie (3) Here in Spirit (4) The World's Smiling Now (5) We Ain't Getting Any Younger Pt. 1 (6) We Ain't Getting Any Younger Pt. 2 (7) True Nature (8) In the Moment (9) Eternally Even
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