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