My Morning Jacket Announce New Album, ‘Is,’ Share Lead Single, “Time Waited”

My Morning Jacket announced on Wednesday (January 15) that they are releasing a new album titled, Is, on March 21, their first studio LP in nearly four years. MMJ also shared the album’s lead single, “Time Waited,” which features a sample from pedal steel legend Buddy Emmons’ classic tune, “Blue Jade.” “I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk, and all these melodies started coming to me,” frontman Jim James said. Is was recorded at Los Angeles’ Henson Recording Studios by acclaimed producer Brendan O’Brien, marking the band’s first time working with an outside producer in nearly 10 years. “Up until now I’ve never been able to let go and allow someone else to steer the ship,” James says. “It almost felt like an out-of-body experience to step back and give control over to someone who’s far more accomplished and made so many more records than us, but in the end I was able to enjoy the process maybe more than I ever have before.” (Rolling Stone)