My Morning Jacket Announce is: Listen to “Time Waited”
The band's 10th studio album will arrive March 21 via ATO Records.
Photo by Silvia Grav
Yesterday, My Morning Jacket announced their 10th studio album, simply titled is. The new record is their first in over three years, marking the long-awaited follow-up to their 2021 self-titled LP, and arrives March 21 via ATO Records. My Morning Jacket served as a pseudo-homecoming for vocalist Jim James and the rest of the band, revitalizing the group’s love for both live performances and their eclectic, easy-going take on rock and roll. Now, the band is hungrier than ever, deviating creatively from their usual self-produced approach and instead collaborating with three time Grammy Award winner, Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam) throughout each song on is.
“I like how the word indicates a sense of presence in the now—there’s no logic or rationale behind this record; it just is,” James said in a press statement. “All these songs came into existence out of an attempt to connect with something beyond the human experiment, which for me is one of the most beautiful things about music—that connection with something larger than us, yet something we are all equally a part of.”
Pairing perfectly with the announcement of is came the album’s lead single “Time Waited,” a classic love song that puts James’ reverb-drenched vocals on full display and lifts its tearful, piano sample from a Buddy Emmons’ tune. James continued, “I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk, and all these melodies started coming to me. For a long time, I didn’t have lyrics, but then I had a dream where I was in a café and a song was playing, and the lyrics to that song became the lyrics to ‘Time Waited’—the melodies just fit perfectly. And the lyrics are about how flexible time is, how we can bend and warp time, especially if we are following our hearts, the universe and time itself can flow to work with us.”
is arrives as the band celebrates the 20th anniversary of their acclaimed record Z, a defining moment in a storied career. Watch the music video for “Time Waited” and check out the is artwork and tracklist below.
is Artwork:
is Tracklist:
Out In The Open
Half A Lifetime
Everyday Magic
I Can Hear Your Love
Time Waited
Beginning From The Ending
Lemme Know
Squid Ink
Die For It
River Road