If there were prizes for song titles, Benny Bleu would be a Grammy winner. Reflecting his day job as a geologist, in addition to the title-track we also get the likes of ‘March of the Mollusk’ and ‘Fairy Shrimp’. They form a concept album of original songs, fitting covers and meditative instrumentals about a changing planet and how the Anthropocene age – defined by human impact – could end in a mass extinction of our own making. Playing clawhammer banjo augmented by Jake Blount sideman Gus Tritsch on fiddle, guitar and mandolin, and an old-timey, swinging rhythm section, he not only warns of the man-made pressures driving climate change but also suggests we might yet find salvation in living simpler, more grounded lives. Bleu apparently spent ten years…

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