Jim White No Such Place

3.5 stars out of 5 - "...These tracks ground themselves in White's flawless songcraft - melodies, hooks and choruses that are instantly memorable...freshened up by hip-hop beats and swirling atmospherics....transports the listener to the imagination's outskirts..."
"...Gothic folktales inspired by fire-and-brimstone religion, freedom-promising highways, and broken-down cars..." - Rating: B
3 stars out of 5 - "...Beatmasters Morcheeba and Sade's Andrew Hale give White and his cast of oddballs and ne'er-do-wells a multi-layered contemporary sheen....A few more crunching melodies and he would be genuinely flying, but this will most certainly do."
Ranked #11 in AP's "25 Best Albums of 2001" - "...an American treasure..."
"...Long on urban beats and electronic effects...The settings and imagery...remain straight out of the Southern gothic tradition and in the very human scale of hand-to-mouth living..."
"...Rural rock from outer space..."
"...Caustic country and slinky white funk, with acoustic guitars, banjos, synths and samples, and a vocal warping from Will Oldham at his most affecting to Johnny Dowd at his most pathological..."