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Z by My Morning Jacket
Z is an album by My Morning Jacket, released in 2005. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 41 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Off The Record”, on 23 lists with a best position of #30.
Z, My Morning Jacket's fourth album, came out on ATO in 2005 with John Leckie producing, and it's the one where the band cleared the fog. The cavernous reverb that swallowed their earlier records is mostly gone, the songs are shorter and tighter, and in its place come synthesizers, space-age polish and a loping reggae and dub pulse.
It still sounds like a psychedelic rock band, just one that has figured out how to aim. "Wordless Chorus" floats in on a cloud of keyboards and falsetto yearning, "Off the Record" skanks along on an off-kilter dub groove, "Gideon" swells like a hymn in a canyon, "Lay Low" and "Dondante" take their time and let the guitars bloom. The double live album Okonokos, recorded at the end of the Z tour, came out in 2006 with eight of Z's 10 songs on it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Z on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Off The Record | 23 | #30 | – | 2005–2025 | |
| 2 | Wordless Chorus | 6 | #157 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 3 | Gideon | 6 | #246 | – | 2009–2024 | |
| 4 | Lay Low | 4 | #404 | – | 2014–2024 | |
| 5 | Dondante | 2 | #313 | – | 2014–2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.