The cover of Santi White’s third album features the Philadelphia singer shrinkwrapped alongside consumer desirables and reduced to a product. The commodification of art is a theme she picks up inside, too, most notably on Chasing Shadows, but her political statements are always sugarcoated by big pop choruses. Throughout, she displays a lighter touch than on 2012’s Master of My Make-Believe, with Banshee and the gorgeous Rendezvous Girl working particularly well. Elsewhere, Big Boss Big Time Business sounds like MIA stripped of the dissonanace and geopolitics. Some of the sparkle fades as the album goes on, with Run the Races and Outside the War especially ponderous, but this is another sure-footed set aimed as much at the head as at the hips.
