'Z' - My Morning Jacket

[den]

After a few listens, I agree, it's quite good. Albums like 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' and 'Soft Bulletin' are the type that grow on you anyways.

Scott, did you mean that 'Z' is the album-of-the-year like "YHF' and 'SB' were and/or that it actually sounds like those albums? I could see it both ways. It does have that similar emotional yet powerful sound, and the semi-falsetto vocals remind me of the Flaming Lips and even Coldplay, but this album has more balls. I only have 'It Still Moves' which I like very much (Golden is just perfect). I think 'Z' moves away slightly from MMJ's "southern rock" label towards more straight rock (rock as in a weird Flaming Lips sense).

I second the reccommendation. I bet we'll be hearing more about this when it's released in the fall.