Jim James

BIOGRAPHY

In a modern world wired for constant astonishment, Jim James is searching for another kind of wonder. The fifth solo LP from the Kentucky-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Wowed Out’s unlikely genesis closely mirrors its underlying themes of reclamation and rediscovery. After unearthing a vast archive of music he’d composed for two major film-scoring projects in the early 2010s, James experienced a sudden rush of inspiration and transformed those fragments into an immersive work of soulful psychedelia. His first new solo album in eight years, Wowed Out arrives as a visionary new offering from one of the most adventurous artists in 21st century rock music: a radically sincere statement against disillusionment, one that argues for tenderness as resistance, nature as refuge, and awe as a counterforce to dread and despair. [FULL BIO]