Themes of surviving life's firestorms, respecting the planet, and karmic justice sit alongside the spectre of death that has occupied Whitmore's music over the years and coloured it with anger.
The more optimistic perspective on this album marks his maturing as a man and writer, and is accompanied by the corresponding lift in energy that comes from enlisting a band for several of the beefier tracks.
• William Elliott Whitmore. Radium Death. Anti-Records.
• Three stars (out of five)
Single download: Healing To Do
For those who like: Seasick Steve, Scott H. Biram
- Jeff Harford
