My Morning Jacket - Okonokos

Okonokos

by My Morning Jacket

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Released
09/06/2008
Music Genre
Rock
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On the double-disc concert album OKONOKOS, My Morning Jacket harnesses its considerable live energy into an impressive set. Drawing primarily from IT STILL MOVES and Z, the 2006 release features a few of the Louisville, Kentucky-based act's quieter tunes ("I Will Sing You Songs," "Golden"), but focuses primarily on gloriously rocked-out performances, including the surging shoegazer "Gideon" and the searing "One Big Holiday," which conjures up thoughts of the Allman Brothers Band and Mogwai in an on-stage choogle session. While many live records call attention to weaknesses in an ensemble's sound, OKONOKOS plays to MMJ's strengths (particularly frontman Jim James and guitarist Carl Bromel's bold, up-front six-string work), proving that the group is an arena-rock band in the best possible sense.

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Product Details

Artist
My Morning Jacket
Number of Discs
1
Recording Environment
Live
Label / Studio
ATO
Media Content Format
Album
Original year of release
2006
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
2008
Cast & Crew
My Morning Jacket (Music Performer)

Press Reviews

This is an impressive representation of the MMJ live experience..." -- Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly (p.81)

3 stars out of 5 -- "OKONOKOS lacks nothing in great songs or celestial playing... Mojo (Publisher) (p.118)

They get almost funky during 'What A Wonderful Man', and the way they fold in a southern-rock guitar riff, voiced in thirds, illustrates how cunningly they manage to update the whole post-Allman Brothers tradition without making a big deal of it. No Depression (p.101)

3 stars out of 5 -- "OKONOKOS is a heroic performance...Jim James's unlikely celestial holler is revealed as no studio trick... Q (p.147)

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "OKONOKOS swaggers along with lean guitars and big keyboards, cherry-picking tunes from MMJ's early records. Rolling Stone (p.72)

4 stars out of 5 -- "An aesthetic- and career- defining set, it's the album they were destined to make. Spin (p.103)

Ranked #08 in Spin's "The 40 Best Albums of 2006" -- "[A] hairy, old-fashioned rock outfit that does everything right. Spin (p.61)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Wordless Chorus (4:14)
  2. It Beats 4 U (4:26)
  3. Gideon (3:48)
  4. One Big Holiday (5:56)
  5. I Will Sing You Songs (8:38)
  6. Lowdown (4:14)
  7. Way That He Sings (5:08)
  8. What a Wonderful Man (2:59)
  9. Off the Record (6:54)
  10. Golden (4:51)
  11. Lay Low (6:20)

Disc 2:

  1. Dondante (11:18)
  2. Run Thru (9:35)
  3. At Dawn (3:01)
  4. X-Mas Curtain (5:02)
  5. O Is the One That Is Real (3:36)
  6. I Think I'm Going to Hell (5:16)
  7. Steam Engine (11:07)
  8. Dancefloors (5:15)
  9. Anytime (4:03)
  10. Mahgeetah (7:08)

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8/7/2010
 
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I wish they toured Australia more!

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Pros

  • Engaging
  • Original

Cons

    Best Uses

    • In The Car
    • On my mp3 on the bus

    Comments about ATO My Morning Jacket - Okonokos:

    Great recording of a great concert by a great band - this is how live recordings should sound - as good as, if not better than in the studio.

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    Excellent speed of delivery & quality - as always with CD Wow

    Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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