My Morning Jacket frontman and all around musical messiah Jim James has announced his debut album, "Regions of Light and Sound of God," along with the first single, "Know Til Now."
The album, inspired by the 1929 novel "God's Man" by Lyn Ward, "chronicles an artist's struggles with temptation and corruption, along with finding true love," according to a press release.
According to James:
"I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time. Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense—like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old days of just being a simple robot."
This will be James' first venture into solo original work but not the first time he's temporarily parted ways with the boys from MMJ--in 2009, under the name, Yim Yames, James released an EP of acoustic-based George Harrison songs. Just from the sound of "Know Til Now," James seems to take every musical influence he's ever come under to make one of the most innovative compositions in both the MMJ and Yim Yames catalogue combined. Check out the track above via Soundcloud.
"Regions of Light and Sound of God" will be released February 5, 2013.
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