Regions of Light and Sound

Storytelling goes beyond words and the audio experience, and for his first solo album 'Regions of Light and Sound of God' My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James found inspiration from 'God's Man', a wordless 1929 woodcut novel by Lynd Ward, which "chronicles an artist's struggles with temptation and corruption, along with finding true love," according to a press release. "Some of the things happening in the book were happening to me in real life, in a very strange and painful, then a very beautiful way," James said in a press release.

James plays every instrument and engineered the album himself. "I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time. Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense - like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old days of just being a simple robot".