Joseph Arthur’s busy. As we mentioned when taking “Rages Of Babylon” for a spin, 2008′s the year of five Joseph Arthur releases. To recount: The Could We Survive EP came out in March, followed by this month’s Crazy Rain EP. Then, before we see the full-band, JA & The Lonely Astronauts Temporary People full-length on August 5th, two EPs — Vagabond Skies and another yet untitled — enter the world on 5/13 and 6/24. Someone call Robert Pollard! Anyhow, we’re getting ahead of JA’s release schedule. He’s still entrenched in EP the second, which is where you’ll find the electro guy and gal flirtations of “I Wanna Get You Alone.” We don’t mean to be nosy, but how’s dude have time for sex?
The female voice is Jen Turner. Quite a pace change from politically-angled, acoustic and harmonica driven “Rages In Babylon.” This is more of a party rager. As you may know, Arthur’s also a painter. If you’re in the NYC area, he’s throwing a party at his gallery (the Museum of Modern Arthur, har har) in Brooklyn in celebration of the release of Crazy Rain. It’ll be a solo performance and art exhibition. The deets:
04/26 – Brooklyn, NY @ Museum of Modern Arthur (25 Jay Street), 8-11PM
It’s solo acoustic, and a party for Crazy Rain. More info here.
The Crazy Rain EP is out 4/15 on Lonely Astronaut.
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Mister Arthur used to be so good. SO so good.
I agree K. Without a doubt he was my favourite singer/songwriter in the world 2 or 3 years ago. But his last few releases have been lazy and….well, just not great at all. This song is unbelievably bad. Of course, someone else may think this is the best thing he’s done in his career, but personally, I fear that Nuclear Daydream may well be the last great release we see from Joseph Arthur. A real shame that he seems to have gone down this road.
The latest offering from Joseph urges me to hop in my car and find the nearest rave!
Seek out an underground venue
Go back to my roots,
Dance so primal?
The drive
Home,
I?ll pop in
?Could We Survive?
Let it drift and spin,
Somehow locate
When listening?
Hail to the Artist
Of Variation–
arthur is amzing and this song rocks
love it
I agree this song totally rocks. Its awesome.
Come on people…this song is awful
I hate to agree that this is a lazy piece of songwriting from someone who is usually light years better. But it does rock….