{"id":8173,"date":"2011-05-11T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2011-05-10T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:03:22","slug":"midweek-music-break-my-morning-jacket-circuital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/midweek-music-break-my-morning-jacket-circuital\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: My Morning Jacket, “Circuital”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the category of bands building a career while I was looking the other way… I offer you the subject of this week’s music break: the title track of My Morning Jacket’s upcoming album Circuital<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I stumbled upon the band and this pretty static video while looking for something else. Whatever one makes of the lyrics (there’s some dispute as to what the lyrics actually are<\/em>), the instrumentation and the vocal harmonies and effects, umm, well, they mesmerized<\/em> me. Great, great sound. Won’t surprise me if I’m tapping out this rhythm on the steering wheel and the floor beneath my desk for days, without even being aware I’m doing so.<\/p>\n

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Lyrics (to the extent that anyone seems to have pieced them together):<\/p>\n

Circuital<\/em><\/strong>
\n (My Morning Jacket)<\/em><\/p>\n

Spinning out, gracefully
\nGoing nowhere, quickly
\nI am older, day by day
\nStill going back to my childhood way<\/p>\n

Circuital
\nRound and round patiently
\nGetting lost by the guide
\nAnd I’m all worked up over nothing<\/p>\n

Circuits
\nAll in and out
\nConnect my body
\nDeep into the ground<\/p>\n

Circuits
\nConnect the Earth to the moon
\nAnd link our heavenly bodies
\nNot a moment too soon<\/p>\n

Well you can fling open the windows
\nOr you can board them up
\nSatan’s jeweled crown
\nOr Christ\u2019s humble cup<\/p>\n

You think you’ll find yourself out there
\nOut in the lion\u2019s den
\nIn somebody’s battle
\nOver belief systems<\/p>\n

Or disappear into the vacuum
\nTotal neutrality
\nWell you can’t lose nothing
\nBut nothing can be gained<\/p>\n

Well anyway you cut it
\nWe’re just spinning around
\nOut on the circuits
\nOver the hollow grounds
\nOut on the circuits
\nOver the hollow grounds
\nHeading right back in the same place
\nThat we started out
\nRight back in the same place
\nRight back in the same place
\nThat we started out<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About the band themselves I know little. Wikipedia<\/a> says they hail from Louisville, Kentucky, and first set themselves up in 1998. They’ve played with Neil Young, done the late-night talk-show circuit, and at the 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival (Wikipedia again) performed a four-hour<\/em> set — starting at midnight! — of thirty-five songs. No doubt the band members were exhausted afterward; on the evidence of “Circuital,” I bet a good chunk of the audience joined them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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