For a solid month in the fall of 2005 I was completely infatuated with My Morning Jacket's Z. I made several posts about the album's greatness. Here, here and here. And then it got to the point where the voice of Jim James, the lead singer of My Morning Jacket, was beginning to tell me to do evil, malicious things, at which point I forced myself to put the album down for a while, mostly for the safety of those around me. Once I was able to regain my self-control I returned to the album and found that I was not suffering from some, delusional mental break - My Morning Jacket's Z was indeed a fantastic album, but there was no reason for me to listen to it over and over again for 18 hours a day. Z marked an amazing shift in My Morning Jacket's music, away from the spacey, folky, reverb soaked tunes into more rocking territories. The band closed out the decade with 2008's Evil Urges, which was good but no where near to wonders they brought with Z.
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