Kilonova

"The whole rationale behind an album of covers is that there is more than one way to hear a song. Whitmore doesn't just offer other versions here. He makes these songs distinctively his own through his varied approaches to the material. Kilonova is an astronomical term about what happens cosmically when two stars collide and create an energy larger than simple addition would suggest. That seems an apt metaphor for what happens here".

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"Singer, songwriter, and farmer William Elliott Whitmore has always played in punk clubs. As a result, he's been deeply influenced by acts ranging from Bad Religion and Jesus Lizard to Bad Brains and Magnetic Fields. Kilonova is his first album in three years and his debut for Bloodshot. Whitmore didn't write a thing on it. These ten tunes were penned by songwriters who include Bill Withers, Johnny Cash, Harlan Howard, Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz, Jimmie Driftwood, and Captain Beefheart, to name a few. His approach doesn't differ all that much from the way he records his own songs; his impassioned, raspy baritone carries their historical weight almost effortlessly".

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