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
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Aladdin Theatre
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El Perro Del Mar - 2/28
Doug Fir Lounge
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Mississippi Studios
Avey Tare was in attendance, along with Angel from Dirty Projectors.
by David on Mon Feb 8, 2010 at 08.35 pm from the entry: Atlas Sound + Neon Indian - E&L Auditorium (New York, NY; Feb. 4, 2010)
Good catch, oh masked marvel.
by Ari Sommer on Mon Feb 8, 2010 at 02.42 pm from the entry: St Vincent + Wildbirds and Peacedrums - Doug Fir Lounge (Portland, OR; Feb. 6, 2010)
St. Sincent...ha.
by anonymous on Mon Feb 8, 2010 at 02.04 pm from the entry: St Vincent + Wildbirds and Peacedrums - Doug Fir Lounge (Portland, OR; Feb. 6, 2010)
Aan was amazing.
by jarrod on Mon Feb 8, 2010 at 01.02 pm from the entry: Blue Horns + Morning Teleportation + Aan - Doug Fir Lounge (Portland, OR Jan. 30, 2010)
I’d like to clarify that for this show they cut off the back half of Neumo’s floor with a curtain and had the upstairs bar closed. It made Neumo’s obviously seem much smaller than it is. Unfortunately, now having seen Neumo’s fully open at another show I can say that this show was very empty. Still White Denim and Brazos rocked.
by Chris on Mon Feb 8, 2010 at 01.57 am from the entry: White Denim + Brazos - Neumos (Seattle, WA; Jan. 24, 2010)
I agree, it’s very good. Way to deflate their balloon.
by colin on Mon Feb 8, 2010 at 01.03 am from the entry: Third Annual Portland Music Awards - Crystal Ballroom (Portland, OR; Jan. 28, 2010)
Love the photos. And that “Walkabout” song is the drugs.
by Beth Doreian on Sun Feb 7, 2010 at 01.14 pm from the entry: Atlas Sound + Neon Indian - E&L Auditorium (New York, NY; Feb. 4, 2010)
Love that picture… I could eat Jim James for breakfast lunch and dinner.