Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo reviews
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| Avclub |
 The alt-country label is more meaningless now than ever: Jeff Tweedy shifted from Uncle Tupelo's neo-Depression dirges to Wilco's AM-rock without losing the tag, which speaks volumes. Jim White's latest finds him successfully navigating all the bases on an increasingly amorphous field. Channeling label boss David Byrne's knack for musical assimilation, White moves from micro-genre to genre: It's just a three-song jump from the warm, loping shuffle of "A Town Called Amen" to the Dandy Warhols-baiting "Crash Into The Sun," with its "Woo!" shouts and taut horn arrangement....full text |
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| Villagevoice |
| Given that he was raised Pentecostal in Pensacola—and has a fascination with painful interactions between God and men—it's easy to understand why Jim White's work is often described as Southern gothic or alt-country. Yet his first three albums only superficially employed Southern or country styles; like some pedal-steel-wielding, cracked-crooning Brian Eno, White specialized in indescribable music that seemed to emanate from, to quote one of his own album titles, No Such Place....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Jim White tends to take his time between albums -- Transnormal Skiperoo was only his fourth in over a decade, arriving an ample few years after 2004's Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See. By the time of its release, the Southern-souled transplant and perennial wanderer, who was then fifty, had settled down in a backwoods Georgia farmhouse and was reportedly experiencing "a strange new feeling...after years of feeling lost and alone and cursed." His name for that sensation is the endearingly off-kilter title phrase of the album, but judging from his description it sounds suspiciously similar to contentment. And Skiperoo is certainly his lightest, breeziest record to date, a turnaround from the frequently melancholy Substrate, musically as well as lyrically....full text |
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