Highly Suspicious? Give in to your Evil Urges anyway.

Today’s pick comes from My Morning Jacket’s new album Evil Urges, which is set to drop on June 10th.

The unexpectedly funky, Prince-esque Highly Suspicious, rife with kick drum beats, riffs and falsetto, could make any indie kid want to throw an impromptu dance party/rave in his or her living room–which is saying something significant. No idea if the song itself is saying anything significant; I can’t understand what Jim James is singing (do I hear something about peanut butter pudding surprises? Uhh.. possibly?)–just know that he sounds cool singing whatever it is. Think Beck’s Midnite Vultures meets Stevie Ray Vaughan (Or “some kind of metal musical starring Michael Jackson,” as a good hipster friend of mine put it), then listen to it here:

In their upcoming release, the Kentucky-based alternative rockers will pick up where they left off on ‘Z’, continuing their evolution towards a more eclectic mix of genres. While it’s a bit more experimental than what we might expect from My Morning Jacket, the new album has a little something for everyone, from the country-tinged rock single I’m Amazed for the older fans, to riff-heavy tunes like Remnants and Aluminum Park for fans of MMJ in the One Big Holiday vein, to more low-key, atmospheric numbers like Touch Me I’m Going to Scream and the uncharacteristically narrative Librarian. Like its predecessor, Evil Urges is an all around must-have album.

You can preview the entire album at My Morning Jacket’s myspace or check out more at http://mymorningjacket.com/

This Is the First Day of Our Blog

Yours was the first blog interface that we saw, WordPress.
We think we were blind before we met you.

And yet, here we are, blogosphere. We apologize for our delay in beginning our deliciously superior posts, but it seems we were held up donating our parents’ trust fund money at a recent Obama rally. We love his platforms. I mean, we’re totally into telling our friends how deck being green is–sure, we don’t recycle or reduce our carbon footprints by turning our Macs off or anything, but nothing shouts irony like riding down the street on a bicycle with a reusable tote filled with sustainable and locally grown organic goodies. And we find nothing more ironically stimulating to our cynical souls than all his talk of hopes, dreams and aspirations.

Hipsters Ironically for Obama ‘08.

Anyway–our bloggings should begin shortly.
We are overconfident that you will enjoy them.