The world may be ending, but singer-songwriter Jim Keller is pretty OK with the whole thing; that’s if the title track from his 7th album, End of the World, is anything to go by anyway. “No more fighting, no more pain,” he sings in a tone that can only be described as joyous, against a backdrop that features everything from pedal steel to marimba. “No more calling everybody names / Nothing but red skies day after day / Nobody talking when they got nothin’ to say.” Which, like the album, sounds pretty good indeed.
Optimism in the face of hardship is something of a theme throughout the record, and that’s demonstrated no where better than on the infectiously uplifting ‘Love One Another’ as Keller insists that, no matter the trials…