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Download My Morning Jacket's New Seven-Minute Epic 'Circuital'

MMJ's new album hits stores on May 31st

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My Morning Jacket have released the title track to their new LP Circuital as a free download. The seven-minute epic song was created after the group jammed for a single day in frontman Jim James' basement. Much of the album was cut at a church in the group's Kentucky hometown. "We want people to have almost the exact opposite experience they had last time [with Evil Urges]," James told Rolling Stone. "I definitely had some goals of wanting to make this one warmer and somehow more contained and more concise of a statement."

My Morning Jacket Find Killer New Groove on 'Circuital'

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