Jim White No Such Place Slip Sleeve / Jacket Smith built up a following

Smith built up a following on the strength of the band's trance-inducing live shows and her thrillingly liberated vocal style

Todd Rundgren (guitar

" "If It's Lovin' That You Want

as pop tunes became modernist soundscapes

" any lingering element of the hip-hop affectations of Born to Die have been banished and so have the shade and light Dan Auerbach brought to Ultraviolence

Jim White No Such Place Slip Sleeve / Jacket Smith built up a followingJim White was a magical realist country singer. He had been a cab driver, male model, short order cook and a 1000 other things (but never a performing musician!), when we signed him. This record was produced by the UK band Morcheeba who saw Jim open on a David Byrne tour in London and fell for him. Jim was and is a character who literally has an amazing story for every moment of the day. In fact that used to be a high point of seeing him, beset by a