Music Review

Terra Incognita (1997)

Chris Whitley
Reviewed by Tony Scherman | Feb 21, 1997
EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: Chris Whitley

An endlessly inventive soundsmith, Chris Whitley piles layer upon layer of fed-back, distorted guitar; Terra Incognita is exhilarating, if sometimes harrowing. He also has a plangent, expressive voice. This original may be too idiosyncratic to break through to the masses — though ''Automatic'' and ''Power Down'' are as darkly urgent and hook filled as anything by Kurt Cobain, and then some.

Originally posted Feb 21, 1997 Published in issue #367-368 Feb 21, 1997 Order article reprints

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