During an interview with BBC6 Music, Jim James discussed what the future looks like for My Morning Jacket and Monsters of Folk. Spoiler Alert: MMJ is slowly working on a few tracks but minus any real pressure and MoF will probably do another album someday. You can read the interview blurbs below:
On My Morning Jacket:
“We toured so much over the last couple of years and really have run ourselves ragged, so we’re trying to learn how to take bigger stretches of time off, just getting together for a week or two here and there to work on new songs. We’re working on stuff but we’re just trying to keep it real stress free, real low key. I’d say we’re knocking around three or four songs but they’re still pretty rough and the rest of it’s pretty rough, I feel like sometimes you take your normal situation for granted. Being in the band with the guys is such a wonderful thing but we’ve done so much touring and stuff you kind of start to take this for granted, but then when you do something else like this Monsters of Folk thing, you realize all the things you love about your other thing as well.”
On Monsters of Folk:
“I think it’s one of those things we’ll always want to do,” he said. “We always want it to be very stress free, so we’re not going to try and rush and kill ourselves to keep making it happen quickly but yeah, I think we all have so much fun together that we’ll probably get back together and do it again. I always call it the ‘beginner’s magic’, or ‘high school magic’, we felt like we were starting our first band because we made a rule that only the four of us would play all the instruments so we all played things we didn’t normally play. There was a lot of fun, beginners’ energy. Getting to sit around with just no pressure, no egos, no fighting was great, it was just really fun to sit in there and play. The sound of us playing on tape is a fresh, new sound because a lot of us were in that new space of mind, so I think after that first week in Omaha we all knew it was something really special.”
Via JP’s Blog
Ugh. Paste’s profile of Free Energy made me kind of hate them. So does your review. It’s this unctuous defense of good-time rock-and-roll ("we’re just here to party, and we’re awesome!") that seems more self-serving than fun-loving.
by beth on Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 09.41 pm from the entry: Foreign Born + Free Energy - The Knitting Factory (Brooklyn, NY; Mar. 12, 2010)
that inescapable feeling you are referring to, is that like when you hear something and you could have sworn you heard it before because of the nostalgic catchy quality? or is is like when you’ve heard a band exactly like said band?
great post by the way!
by paul on Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 03.15 pm from the entry: The Novel Ideas - "The Sky Is A Field" - Borrow It
Whoa! I had no idea she was enegaged. You would never know with the way she behaves! Wow!
by art on Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 09.48 am from the entry: Nikki Darlin and John McCauley: 1+1=1
This comment stream is so meta. Great review Kelly.
by chris on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 07.50 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
no prob. The whole album is excellent, combining some of the harder sonics of Los Angeles with the meat of his debut and obviously difficult to summarize in only 50 words… 
I’d say it’s on par with the debut, but better than Los Angeles.
by kelly on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.23 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
By the way, I really liked the mp3 posted. Thanks.
by Joshua H on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.17 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
WHO WROTE THIS...PUKE ! “WHO WROTE THIS...PUKE ! “Picture yourself coasting your bike past space funk palm trees, homeless harpists, vintage video arcades, electronic drum circles, and 60s psychedelic singers who’re waiting for the bus. Cosmogramma is kinda like that if someone suddenly tripped you just as you’re starting to enjoy the ride. But in a good way.””
by Joshua H on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.17 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
Love that picture… I could eat Jim James for breakfast lunch and dinner.