Browsing Posts tagged Joseph Arthur

Best of 2012, 30-21

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Well, before I start, I should mention that one of those little milestones I was looking forward to was passed earlier in the week.  I have no idea what constitutes good traffic on one of these things but I have to say that when I started this I neither expected nor was looking for anyone [...]

Sunday Whatever

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After a week where I did two live reviews (the Afghan Whigs in London and Mark Lanegan in Wolverhampton), I’m reminded just how much a pain it is to review live shows.  Records are easy by comparison, because they can be written about while comfortably experiencing them and trying to locate the feel of something, and [...]

I’m not sure if it was just me who was in the dark about this one, but the first I heard about a new album from Joseph Arthur was through his Twitter feed on Sunday evening, which stated simply and cryptically “Redemption City 011812″.  The following day, a further tweet announced that this is a [...]

Best of 2011, 40-31

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And now for the next bit.  This is a good one to expose the utter unfairness in doing these things, as there’s one in this section that I have had for a few days that would probably have placed much higher if I had more time to listen to it, and another that has had [...]

This is swiftly becoming “Not really heard their older stuff, but…” month.  Then again, it’s the 31st so hopefully that’s all out of the way now. Latest, and hopefully last for a bit, in a line of slightly guilty posts about artists whose work has gone a bit on the under-appreciated side over here, is [...]

It seems a bit curious that there were loads of quality tribute albums released in the early nineties featuring acts from the Sub Pop roster and their peers dedicated to bands who had influenced their respective career paths, yet now we are one generation on from this, and these artists remain largely without tribute albums [...]