There's a palpable boldness throughout My Morning Jacket's fifth album Evil Urges. Down south, they call them "balls." Unsatisfied with having dominated the jam-band circuit, the alt-country rock band turns up the weirdness to 11 with an album as unpredictable and experimental as their Birkenstock-toting fans would allow. Beginning with the titular song, singer Jim James' Prince-ly falsetto instantly positions this as an album intent on getting listeners in the mood. And with songs serenading sexy librarians ("Librarian") and soulful come-ons praising unprejudiced love-making ("dedicate your love to any woman or man/No racial boundary lines, no social subdivisions" from the aforementioned title track), the bedroom best not be far from the stereo. However, all this unrepentant soul is not to suggest that My Morning Jacket is targeting the R & B charts. This album does indeed have its sublime moments of pure classic rock—heck, "Aluminum Park" even sounds like vintage Springsteen—but

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