My Morning Jacket's latest release Z marks a change in form for the band. Previous albums like At Dawn and It Still Moves, while excellent albums, had the feeling of a loose collection of songs. Z, at just over half the length of those albums, has a tighter, more cohesive feel, despite experimenting with several different styles of music throughout the album.
Liz Phair's latest release is lyrically very different from her previous work. Gone is her desire to be someone's 'blow-job queen.' Instead, she wishes to be part of somebody's fairy tale as in the title track, or to have someone who means everything to her as in the first single, 'Everything to Me.' Similar themes of longing and regret give this album'heavier on ballads than Phair's previous work'a more adult alternative feel. It is thankfully not as poppy as her last album, Liz Phair, but, much to the chagrin of many hardcore fans, not the stripped-down sound of her much lauded debut, Exile in Guyville.
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