My Morning Jacket - Lay Low
Holy shitfuck its indie rock! Only, unlike a whole lot of that stuff, MMJ mastermind Jim James/Yim Yames can actually sing. Witness his gruff throat croons over a fat, wierdly accented Bonzo-meets-breakbeat; the riff, the whole momentum of the riff driving forward, stop, forward... Undoubtedly a southern-inflected anthem for chilling.
Well, for like two and a half minutes. Because what follows Yim's beautiful, tube-screamingly piercing hammer on lead is a fucking masterclass in the field of magnificent double lead guitar jam breakdown... ology. Not overly complex, technical, or pyrotechnic, but not blindly simple in that "basically just playing the melody" 80's pop sax solo way, either--no, this is the double guitar solo of two skilled, stylin' axemen who are actually listening to each other. Rather than just trading licks or shredding back and forth everywhere (which I love too, don't get me wrong), Yames and Carl Broemel work together, sending and harmonizing melodic bits and lines back and forth and ultimately building the whole into a crushing, head-banging climax of awesome worthy of the goddamn Allman Brothers.
Indie bands take note: annoying as it its ever looming, Clear Channel FM-approved boomer-spectre is, this is the kind of shit you can learn from "classic rock."
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