Jim White
's debut album is a cinematic collection of Appalachia-inspired
country-folk
rendered with a gothic sensibility and junkyard atmospherics (the inclusion of
Tom Waits
collaborator
Ralph Carney
on several tracks lends the record a distinctly
Waits-ish
veneer). Drawing on his bizarre life experiences and troubled Pentecostal upbringing,
White
's narratives are surreal and crazed, shot through with disturbing spiritual imagery and backwoods dementia; a strangely beautiful record,
Wrong-Eyed Jesus!
is a fine introduction to a uniquely twisted talent. ~ Jason Ankeny