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Evil Urges
words by Matt Warwick
Whoa there, horsey. Epic country cowboys MMJ have gone a bit MGMT on our asses. No wonder, perhaps, as a lot of their fifth studio album was recorded in New York, while they looked to a totally different environment for inspiration. ‘Highly Suspicious’, then, is an ambitious Talking Heads-style funk-out as the Jacket take their six-shooters and chaps to the city, injecting their original schtick with the crystal meth and rotting vomit from the toilets of CBGB, to come up with stuff like the mega country-soul of ‘I’m Amazed’.7/10 in stores now
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