My Morning Jacket

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Over the last 12 years, My Morning Jacket have gone through the kind of perfect, organic growth that you wish every band would go through. Starting as a ragtag bunch of longhairs from Louisville, Kentucky that loved Skynyrd and Neil Young alike ("Southern Man" be damned), the band proved early on that they could balance warm folk balladry in front of a wall of Marshall stacks, with singer Jim James' heavenly voice suited perfectly to either speed. While the band could easily have stayed in that comfortable territory and made a decent run of it, they've constantly pushed themselves into exciting, beautiful, and just plain weird sonic lands. Their newest LP, Circuital, is a playful, soulful album full of anthemic rockers and torchy slow burners and finds James stepping out from behind his trademark wall of reverb, letting the guitars and keyboards provide the colorful, swelling atmospherics that make seeing My Morning Jacket a massive and ethereal experience. GREGORY FRANKLIN
Sun., June 26, 7 p.m., 2011