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Jim James has shared another taste of his new album UNIFORM DISTORTION, and this time it’s the fuzzy, nostalgia-driven “Throwback.”

Echoing the line “When we were young…” the My Morning Jacket frontman looks backwards on this release. As he says in an official statement:

“I wrote this song doing pretty much what you are probably doing right at this very second: scrolling thru social media.

“It struck me as SO wild – how, as you scroll back in time through someone’s account, you watch their face grow younger…but as you do this, REAL TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!! The clock is ticking…instead of doing good work or creating love or taking a walk in nature, I am here STARING AT MY FUCKING PHONE!!!! ha ha ha. Don’t get me wrong – social media is an amazing tool…but I think we should look at it more like a tool, like a hammer you pick up for a little while to do a job, and then you PUT IT DOWN. You don’t sit there and keep hammering away or else pretty soon your entire world would be destroyed and fall apart! And I feel like that is exactly what is happening right before our very eyes to this precious real beautiful human-filled earth.

“So lets WAKE EACH OTHER UP PEOPLE! Lets stand up against injustice and use this tool of social media to fight for peace and love and equality! Let’s throwback for a minute, but try and live in the NOW for a better future.”

UNIFORM DISTORTION is out June 29 on ATO Records.

Listen to “Throwback” below: