Album Review: Tonky by Lonnie Holley

This makes it all the more astounding that Holley leads new record Tonky with a straightforward directive of love; not boundless love, not unconditional love, but a pointed, militant caress of the hope our species can't shake. Hearing "Protest with Love" after the politically jaded, sumptuously empathic songs of his previous record Oh Me, Oh My instilled a fear that his decisive edges had been worn down. This is not an era of love, and certainly not the moment to have love come and be the antidote anyway; we're jaded with oligarchs and their government lackeys trying to half-heartedly unite us while looking down the barrel of what they've prepared for us.

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