Jim James is the frontman of the band My Morning Jacket, plus he's been involved in interesting collaborations like Monsters Of Folk and The New Basement Tapes. As a solo artist, he's been releasing EPs and studio albums since 2009. James is best known as a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist, but he's a multi-instrumentalist and producer as well. He plays a lot of guitar on his new album, Uniform Distortion. Like many artists these days, Jim James is finding inspiration in the current cultural climate, as he explains: "I feel like there is this blanket distortion on society/media and the way we gather our 'news' and important information...and more and more of us are feeling lost and looking for new ways out of this distortion and back to the truth."
Here are the Top 30 new releases played on Studio One Tracks for the week ending Aug. 5, 2018:
1 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever- Hope Downs
2 Dirty Projectors- Lamp Lit Prose
3 Gorillaz- The Now Now
4 The Jayhawks- Back Roads And Abandoned Motels
5 Jim James- Uniform Distortion
6 Courtney Barnett- Tell Me How You Really Feel
7 Let's Eat Grandma- I'm All Ears
8 Melody's Echo Chamber- Bon Voyage
9 Ty Segall & White Fence- Joy
10 Natalie Prass- The Future And The Past
11 Lake Street Dive- Free Yourself Up
12 Father John Misty- God's Favorite Customer
13 Snail Mail- Lush
14 Johnny Marr- Call The Comet
15 Beach House- 7
16 Shannon Shaw- Shannon In Nashville
17 Angelique Kidjo- Remain In Light
18 Peach Kelli Pop- Gentle Leader
19 Hannah Gill- Lost In Words (EP)
20 Neko Case- Hell-On
21 The Record Company- All Of This Life
22 Cowboy Junkies- All That Reckoning
23 Arthur Buck- Arthur Buck
24 Dawes- Passwords
25 Hatchie- Sugar & Spice (EP)
26 La Luz- Floating Features
27 Ray LaMontagne- Part Of The Light
28 Astronomique- Sharp Divide
29 Speedy Ortiz- Twerp Verse
30 Eleanor Friedberger- Rebound
