Regions of Light and Sound of God by Jim James

Regions of Light and Sound of God, which ATO Records put out on February 5, 2013, is the first solo album from Jim James, the Louisville singer who fronts and writes for My Morning Jacket. He found the title in Lynd Ward's Gods' Man, a wordless novel from 1929 that someone handed him while he was still mulling over whether to make a record on his own.

It's a head-in-the-clouds affair, all reverb, soul grooves and cosmic yearning, with James' high, haunted voice floating over the top like it's calling from the far end of a cathedral. "State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.)" is the funky, restless one, and "A New Life" the sweet, swaying ballad. It opened at 34 on the Billboard 200 and at number ten on the Top Rock Albums chart on 17,000 first-week sales, and had moved 56,000 copies in the US by late 2016.

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