8 Tracks: Life's a mess, then it's over
8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time.
Jim White has probably played drums on an album that you love: 's , 's , and Warren Ellis' soundtrack for , to name a few. On a full kit or even just a snare and some brushes, his touch and textures just hit different. "You can hear the rainbow of his emotion in the swells, the dropouts, the attacks," Chan Marshall told in a . She should know: White can be heard on albums going back as far as 1998's . In his drumming, there's a restless wonder. To my ears, White's, but shot through with a punk abandon — his patterns root around the inside of a song, take a walk around it, uplift and upend its virtues and flaws.
