"[6] 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.

[7] Another critique by Justin Cober-Lake noted that "White likes to keep his listeners off balance, and he comfortably does so through odd characters, surprising lyrical moments, or sonic oddities" in the perfect contemporary setting where "As society collapses, even the misfits can't truly celebrate, but they can see a little extra from their outsider status."

[8] The Journal of Roots Music offered a similar review, calling White's work "A cross between a hysterical lunatic and a road-weary sage, Jim White really lets loose on the electrifying Misfit's Jubilee, the latest installment in his ongoing quest to make sense of reality in all its dazzling weirdness" and labeling the album as "soul searching" "southern gothic" in which " .

A promotional video for the song "The Divided States Of America" was released October 21, 2020 on Jim White's YouTube channel.

At this moment in our collective history it makes sense that voices normally content to remain silent should be lifted in outrage, howling, exhorting our minds and hearts to focus on a singular goal---higher ground for all, not just the rich folks."

The album ends with the song, and White noted in the video post that "My sincere prayer is that my fellow Americans will wake up and once more hunger for a kinder, saner compass, one that'll lead us back to the pursuit of nobler intentions, ideals of freedom and fairness that were once our theoretical guideposts as a people."

Earlier promotion included the first advance single for the album, "Sum Of What We Have Been," which was released in the publication Americana Highway, and announced via a social media post from White.

his latest album creates a stir by assembling a series of tracks that the major labels rejected in their desire to make him accessible," "White is willfully expressing his own views, unafraid of the consequences.

White recorded these tracks at Studio Caporal in Antwerp, Belgium, with drummer Marlon Patton, Geert Hellings on banjo and guitar, and Nicolas Rombouts on bass and keyboards.