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As might be presumed from the CD title, Jim White is one weird dude. On song after song, White comes across as a guy who is trying real hard to communicate something, but he’s just too twisted to be understood, and that isn’t a bad thing. He combines a backwoods hayseed sensibility with an artistic self awareness that hovers on clairvoyance, and although it might not make perfect sense, it does make you want to figure out what in heck he’s trying to convey.
His obsession with biblical themes is stirred into a dark black-humor vision of a world gone crazy, resulting in such twisted epics as "When Jesus Gets a Brand New Name" and "Burn the River Dry." Each song is accompanied by textural arrangements that confound as much as they clarify. Cellos, warped harmonies and treated percussion all combine in making White sound like a cowboy who spent a few too many hours in the hot sun. You might not get it, but his unique outlook provides White with a podium that is his alone. Rave on.
Grade: 
 
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