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The cumulative result is an exhilarating, bone-deep experience--a true album, built for sustained listening.
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Evil Urges represents the creative peak of a band that has shown glimpses of greatness in the past and will hopefully continue to evolve in the future.
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Evil Urges is easily MMJ's most accomplished and ambitious record, masterfully sifting through genres.
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This is an excellent release from an already accomplished band.
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Evil Urges furthers the reveal with confident and imaginative strides, now with 100% less burning kitten jokes.
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Evil Urges explodes the band's sound with the same kind of creative leap that Wilco took on "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and Radiohead took on "Kid A."
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The My Morning Jacket frontman cackles, croons, wails, wallops and stomps through the band's fifth and latest great album.
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Evil Urges has a little something for everybody, and at a time when albums often consist of a few peaks and a lot of filler, it’s remarkably consistent, mostly lacking extreme highs and lows.
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Picking up where "Z" skidded off, Evil Urges is like a carnival, like life (after all, My Morning Jacket is in cahoots with The Band), like cigarrons, discarded cigarettes dredged from the Cimarron River, and cinnamon sticks in a pot of boiled apples on the stove.
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The resulting monster is alternately charming and schizo. [July 2008, p.71]
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Evil Urges ultimately ends the same way it began--with a willingness to explore, to challenge, to poke and prod at My Morning Jacket's past work while creating something entirely new.
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With so many stylistic shifts, there's no easy description for the kind of album My Morning Jacket has created, so let's leave it at this: Evil Urges is the sound of a great band that's only getting better.
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Southern rock merchants capture the energy of their live shows on accomplished fifth album.
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As of right now though, Evil Urges is on the top of the heap for 2008.
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Although Evil Urges never reaches the gut-tickling peaks of 2001's "At Dawn," it still reiterates My Morning Jacket's ability to make music that sounds like everything and nothing at all.
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FilterUrges is front-loaded with the "new direction" material.... The second half of the album largely abandons techno trickery and soul balladry for the lush alt-country fans have come to expect. [Spring 2008, p.91]
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Under The RadarEvil Urges is bound to wound some listeners, but with a little dedication there are new pleasures to be found within. Submit. Explore. Enjoy. [Summer 2008]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 73
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Mixed: 16 out of 73
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Negative: 6 out of 73
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Jul 27, 2020What an album. You got some cool psychedelic, ballads, and hard rockers for all to enjoy.
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Jul 3, 2015
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May 7, 2015