Cover My Morning Jacket/Songs: Ohia Split EP
On March 19th, 2002 the My Morning Jacket/Songs: Ohia Split EP was released. The EP is the third release in record label Jade Tree's split series. It contains four songs by My Morning Jacket and one by Songs: Ohia
- "O is the One That is Real" - 3:39
- "How Do You Know" - 4:48
- "Come Closer" - 4:59
- "The Year in Review" - 2:34
- "Translation" - 10:08
Band quotes
"Jade Tree approached us, and since they're such a great label, and Jason [Molina] is such an excellent songwriter we thought it would really be a neat way to reach a crowd we normally wouldn't reach."- Jim James
(Pitchfork interview, August 2002)
Interviewer: Why does the sped-up track on that split "The Year in Review" exist?- Jim James
James: To make people laugh. To make people think. Maybe every release doesn't always have to be cut-and-dry. Maybe some things can be funny or stupid or not make sense at all. That topic kind of makes me bummed because from some of the reviews I read I could tell people clearly don't understand what we're trying to do. Regarding "Cobra", they say things like "twenty-four minutes is too long," or, regarding "The Year in Review", "Why was there a sped-up version of all the songs?" Or back to "Cobra", "Why is there weird-sounding eighties rhythms and no reverb"? We just want to try everything there is to try and we think EPs are the best place to try weird things out. Sure, not all of them work, but I always try to not let experimentation get in the way of still giving people their money's worth when they buy something. I think on both the new EPs, there is a lot of really good music on there, even though some of it may be really fucked up.
(Pitchfork interview, August 2002)
