My Morning Jacket’s leader Jim James has announced that in February he will release his first full-length album, Regions Of Light And Sound Of God.  While the magnificent and magnanimous James has previously released a gorgeous EP of  George Harrison cover songs under the Yim Yames moniker, this will be his first solo album.

According to Pitchfork, James’ press release states that the album “chronicles an artist’s struggles with temptation and corruption, along with finding true love. Some of the things happening in the book were happening to me in real life, in a very strange and painful, then a very beautiful way.  I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time. Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense—like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old days of just being a simple robot.”

Evidently James engineered and played all the instruments on the album.  You can pre-order and download new track Know Til Now HERE.  Or you can listen below as James evokes a soul-and-synth motif on the new song.   We can’t wait.  A track list follows below.

Regions of Light and Sound of God:

1 State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U)
2 Know Til Now
3 Dear One
4 A New Life
5 Exploding
6 Of the Mother Again
7 Actress
8 All Is Forgiven
9 God’s Love to Deliver