DECENT American rock bands are like buses: you don't get one for ages, then loads turn up at once.
It is difficult not to feel sorry for Kentucky misfits My Morning Jacket.
Usually their arrival would have generated more interest, but their thunder is being stolen by Kings Of Leon and The Strokes. Shame, because It Still Moves is another album to cherish.
Melding country melodies and expansive rock, it is full of surprises. Run Thru is wonderfully arranged and sounds like Spiritualized playing 1970s rock, while Steam Engine has great soothing guitars.
Most of the songs last six minutes or more, so a full play-through is too much, particularly as Jim James's vocal similarity to Neil Young soon becomes irritating.
Updated: 08:47 Thursday, October 16, 2003
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