Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson sitting next to album artwork

New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.

Secularia
Eliza Gilkyson
Red House Records
2018

In these whirling times of burning forests, unspeakable human rights violations and stupid White House tweets, it can seem like our minds are being sucked down a numbing vortex, into a voracious black hole 鈥 鈥渢he centre cannot hold鈥.聽

Could there be light at the end of these darkest of days?聽 Might we still feel joy and have hope, despite all pessimistic logic?