Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts "Let's Just Be"


The strangely noisy, "let's just be" is Mr. Arthurs second record with the Lonely Astronauts. A unpolished, difficult record that will take a little while to sink in(and ultimately take its place in heavy rotation on my player). At times beautiful yet unafraid to get ugly, it bounces back and forth between trance inducing repitition and a rough noise. Moments of bliss slide in thru the disarray and back out again perhaps in parallel to the current state of our world with small moments of beauty eclipsing a sad dark reality. There is a freedom to be found here seperate from the beautiful sadness and hope I find in his other recordings.






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