My Morning Jacket / Jim James "Wowed Out" COLOR:BABY PINK homey form of ambient music

homey form of ambient music pioneered by Ernest Hood and perfected by The Books

Released in 2010

The innocent synth pop of youth was suddenly engulfed in a dark perverse world of bleak atmospherics and seedy lust

his deep baritone singing melodies and reciting spoken word while the Missingmen (Raul Morales and Tom Watson) wail on drums and guitar

their compositions reflect the light and dark in all of us and combined with bold experimental production that breathes life into their space-age-prog

My Morning Jacket / Jim James "Wowed Out" COLOR:BABY PINK homey form of ambient musicThe fifth solo LP from My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James explores the psychic fallout of the digital age. After unearthing a vast archive of music hed composed for two major film scoring projects in the early 2010s, James experienced a sudden rush of inspiration and transformed those fragments into an immersive work of soulful psychedelia. His first new solo album in eight years, Wowed Out arrives as a visionary new offering from one of the most