Marketing calls My Morning Jacket’s new album “a return to the band’s roots,” but marketing also said the same thing about the Strokes new CD. Circuital is certainly more focused than 2008′s wildly uneven Evil Urges, but still retains much of the experimentation that pervaded that album. “First Light,” however, is about as retro as MMJ can be nowadays, complete with a barn-burning coda that sends the song off in anthemic fashion.

My Morning Jacket – “First Light”