{"id":4246,"date":"2012-05-22T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:14:29","slug":"jim-white-where-it-hits-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/05\/22\/jim-white-where-it-hits-you\/","title":{"rendered":"JIM WHITE &#8211; Where It Hits You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4247\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/05\/22\/jim-white-where-it-hits-you\/jim-white-where-it-hits-you\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4247\" title=\"Jim-White--Where-It-Hits-You\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jim-White-Where-It-Hits-You-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.10616102954372764\">Here we go! Jim White\u2019s fifth album is a breezy alt-country affair, filled with the usual darkness and then a few odd upbeat numbers to balance things out.<!--more--> Fifteen years since his debut, <em>Wrong-Eyed Jesus<\/em>, and still melancholic? Understandably so. While writing the album, White\u2019s wife (and mother of his children) left him for another man, which probably explains the nature of songs like \u201cThe Way of Alone\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/islands-1\/jim-white-epilogue-to-a\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cEpilogue to a Marriage.\u201d<\/a> The hour long <em>Where It Hits You<\/em> begins with the reflective sombre hopefulness of \u201cChase the Dark Away\u201d and into the perfect Sunday afternoon tune, \u201cSunday\u2019s Refrain.\u201d At midway, White delivers an unexpected series of delightfully cheerful songs, even using flutes, chimes and triumphant stuck-in-your-head whistling (\u201cWhat Rocks Will Never Know\u201d), only to bring us back down just as unexpectedly with the last third of the album. It feels a bit meandering at times, but \u201cWhat Rocks Will Never Know\u201d and \u201cHere We Go!\u201d sure are a lot of fun. \u00a0(Yep Roc Records,<\/span><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.10616102954372764\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yeproc.com\"> yeproc.com<\/a>) <strong>Cole Snyder<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go! Jim White\u2019s fifth album is a breezy alt-country affair, filled with the usual darkness and then a few odd upbeat numbers to balance things out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[360,453,1130],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-folk","tag-indie","tag-yep-roc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}