Kev Carmody’s third album concludes with the Murri songwriter’s best-known tune, the Paul Kelly collaboration “From Little Things Big Things Grow.” Inspired by the Gurindji strike that started in 1966 and ultimately led to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, a version of the song was first released by Kelly and his band The Messengers in 1991. Carmody shares his own version of the co-write here, with Kelly guesting on vocals for the stirring protest-minded sing-along about how small decisions can make an outsized impact. But there’s plenty more to recommend on Bloodlines, starting with the passionate call for equality on opener “Freedom.” As on Carmody’s 1990 album Eulogy (For a Black Person), vivid flashes of rock, reggae, and folk mingle with traditional Indigenous instrumentation here. The title track recounts the Dreamtime with dramatic spoken word and theatre-style staging, while its later reprisal focuses more on entrancing rhythmic flourishes. If wide-open moments like those can feel quite timeless, other turns like “Living South of the Freeway” are very up-to-date for the early 1990s, reflecting on the inequity of modern city life over heavy rock riffing. Here and across his later work, Carmody’s ability to convey powerful social messages across a variety of genres would prove to be an ongoing point of distinction.