Hoots & Hellmouth

William Elliott Whitmore

Well it’s a goddamn shame what’s going down How we got to this I do not know There’s a sick sick wind that is blowin’ ‘round And the captain’s got to go Sung over a martial drumbeat comes the first lines of “Mutiny,” the opening track on William Elliott Whitmore’s ANTI- Records debut Animals In The Dark, and it is immediately apparent that this is not simply a continuation of his Southern trilogy that spanned his last three releases. Rather than a reflection of life and loss and the world surrounding his Iowa horse farm on the idyllic banks of the Mississippi, “Mutiny,” and others of its ilk such as “Old Devils,” find Whitmore’s focu...