Ok, we have a lot to cover here as far as My Morning Jacket is concerned and how impressive The Mixtape Club really is/are. Let’s begin with MMJ shall we?

By now, most of you should’ve heard Evil Urges and if not, read many of the reviews. We haven’t really discussed this here on the site, and that’s a shame. It’s a damn fine record that has a misstep or two. -cough-HighlySuspicious-cough- Still you can’t really blame a band for getting a little experimental 6 releases into their career, (See U2’s Achtung Baby, Zooropa, & Pop) especially when said band puts out songs like “I’m Amazed”, “Aluminum Park”, and “Look at You”. Try listening to the album on your front porch or in your car when the sun begins to set, see how you feel about it then.

As for The Mixtape Club. Well, damn if they aren’t just killing it with each project they get their hands on. What’s not to like about their ‘quality over quantity’ aesthetic approach?Something that our boy Ace Norton might be forgetting as of late. As they reveal, “The jungle world was built entirely from elements painted digitally.” The time and care taken into the video, as well as the consideration of a wide array of influences from Where the Wild Things Are to BBC’s Planet Earth only solidify the caliber of such a piece of work. Of course if the name sounds familiar, you’re probably thinking of their work on J Dilla’s shot for “Nothing Like This“. We were fans then, and from the looks of this most recent work, look to be fans of theirs continuing on into the future.