Staff Editor on July 6th, 2019

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My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and the Claypool Lennon Delirium brought their co-headlining tour to Southern California for two shows this week, with Tuesday’s outing at the House of Blues Anaheim proving to be exceptionally haunting, eccentric and sweeping.

James’ opening set plumbed heavily from “Uniform Distortion,” released last summer, before he went deeper into his catalog during the encore, performing songs from 2016’s “Eternally Even,” a couple of MMJ songs (including “Bermuda Highway”) and  “State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.)” from 2013 at the finish.

Claypool and Lennon mixed songs from the two Delirium albums, 2016’s “Monolith of Phobos” and this year’s “South of Reality” in a set that started with a Pink Floyd cover and ended with a Beatles song (“Tomorrow Never Knows”). Squarely in the middle was a linchpin of progressive rock, King Crimson’s “The Court of the Crimson King.”

Photos by Bryan Greenberg