Misfit's Jubilee
2020 studio album by Jim White
Misfit's Jubilee is an album by Jim White released in 2020. U.S. record label Fluff & Gravy hyped the release stating that "The ever-elusive Americana maverick Jim White returns with his most upbeat, hallucinogenic record to date" while European and U.K. label Loose Music touted that the album was "Quickly being recognised as his most intriguing and unruly album to date ... a scrapbook of ideas, images, colours and sounds gathered over White's illustrious career, bound together to form his latest studio album." Notably, Indie Music reviewers tended to agree with the assessments of White's record labels and the album received overall favorable reviews, with comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Chicks, Neil Young, the Go-Go's, and the Violent Femmes.
Critic David Schuster summarized that White " . . . is someone with something interesting to say, based on a wealth of gritty experience, and it's going to be said with a sprinkling of humour. That in a nutshell is Misfit's Jubilee, his eighth studio album," comparing the album to a " . . . road trip across one of the southern states . . . " and proclaiming the album "pure Americana, rooted in the same influences as Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and Johnny Cash's last, great album in his lifetime, When the Man Comes Around." The same critic stated that " . . . White has evolved country-folk into something far quirkier and given it an edge." White, himself, referred to the album as "sonic Kool aid." A review in British newspaper, METRO, called White's effort "baroque cowpunk" with a "faux-naiveté" highlighting that "His favorite subject remains, as ever, the joys and the alarms found in the cracks of human imperfection." The review notes that "Each song is a study in how a wayward or broken life - and of this he presumably has wide experience - can deliver wisdom or beauty in its own curious way," with stories from White's own adventures. One gets the feeling that it doesn't matter whether the stories in the songs are real or fabricated for purposes of entertainment or something grander, like figuring out the meaning of life.
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