Music Review

Music Review: 'No Such Place'

EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: Jim White

On his sophomore disc, this Floridian crackpot prophet spins gothic folktales inspired by fire-and-brimstone religion, freedom-promising highways, and broken-down cars. But as rural and unsophisticated as songs like ''God Was Drunk When He Made Me'' and ''Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi'' might sound, White's perspective is tellingly urbane: What other visionary calls upon trip-hopsters Morcheeba and Q-Burns Abstract Message to dress his candid compositions in murmuring beats and electronic mist? B

Originally posted Mar 09, 2001 Published in issue #586 Mar 09, 2001 Order article reprints

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