With "God Save The City", Bay Area artist Brad Brooks makes a triumphant return with the most direct, soulful record of his life. Just as the songs for "God Save The City" started to take shape a routine trip to the dentist revealed a lump in Brooks’ throat, which turned out to be cancer and the treatment he discovered, might rob him of his voice altogether. as well as fighting for his life. "God Save The City" explodes with Brooks screaming “Come on!!!” and the record never loses that urgency. From the Hall and Oates slow burn of “Feel The Might” to the classic Hi Records groove of “Why Do You Hurt” and “The Chance,” this is Brooks’ soul album, one he has earned the right to make. Brooks sings here like a man with a second chance, raw and vulnerable. Not surprisingly, Brooks’ journey and the country’s wild descent into partisan rancor show up all over "God Save The City". Brooks tackles wealth displacement in the title track, his own mortality in “Sacred Was I”, and recalls a hilarious encounter with “Lee Marvin’s Uzi,” and on perhaps the album’s standout track “Strange Fruit Numb,” what started as a band jam evolves into a civil rights anthem for the 21st century. Now, armed with health, purpose, a sense of urgency, and the most immediate music of his career, he is ready to burn down any stage he can find. Help Brooks save your own city by giving this wonderful record a spin.