Iowa singer-songwriter William Elliott Whitmore self-released two albums in the late 90s and early 00s, but he really burst onto the scene with his 2003 Southern Records debut, Hymns for the Hopeless. Though he was a young man then, his voice sounded ancient and timeless, which made this fierce, beautifully grim album feel like he […] The post William Elliott Whitmore confronts death by making the most of life on Silently, the Mind Breaks appeared first on Chicago Reader.