Waterfall Ii

My Morning Jacket are releasing their new album, on August

28. Out via ATO Records, The Waterfall II was massively

inspired by the band's idyllic surroundings in Stinson Beach, CA

-- and a sense of charmed isolation that frontman Jim James

likened to "living on our own little moon." There, the Kentuckybred

five-piece ended up creating over two dozen songs at the

mountaintop studio known as Panoramic House. Though they

flirted with the idea of putting out what would have been a

triple album, the band ultimately decided that less would be

more at the time and divided the project into two halves,

releasing the first segment as The Waterfall: a 2015 full-length

that earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative

Music Album. My Morning Jacket are now set to share the

second half of the project as The Waterfall II, an unforeseen

and timely continuation of a psychic and sonic journey begun

long ago.

Like its predecessor, The Waterfall II mines its mood of dreamy

contemplation from certain heartbreak James had recently

experienced, including the demise of a monumental

relationship. Unfolding in a loosely threaded narrative of loss

and recovery, the album conjures an indelible pain but never

drifts into despair, gracefully conveying James's message that

"there is hope beyond the pain and loss, if you learn to flow

with life like water."