After spending a couple of years looking back on his long career with a reworking of his classics, Luka Bloom begins book two of his musical history with the aptly titled This New Morning. The Kildare native takes the traditions of Irish musical storytelling to heart on this album, using the folk medium to comment on the issues of our time and in the process, leave an archive for the next generation. Bloom continues to shake up the genre with clever chord sequences and arrangements, while still retaining folk's core values of story-telling and commentary.