Joseph Arthur
Painted Into Things (EP)
Self-Released
We’ve got a new friend in the US of A who sent me a bucket full of shiny new singles and EP’s over the weekend, well in real terms there were 6 downloads; but you know what I mean.
As you’d expect, some are better and more relevant than others and this three track EP entitled, Painted Into Things by Joseph Roberts who is not just a singer-songwriter by something of a renowned artist too, is as good a starting point as any.
All three songs are wistful, poignant and a little bit sad, and they have been the soundtrack to a wet Bank Holiday Monday morning as I catch up on a backlog of e-mails and editing photos.
The lead single Something Beautiful Won’t Come Out conjures up happy memories of my miserable younger, shoe-gazing days listening to the Lotus Eaters, Sundays and the like, with How Dull The Ache following a similar moody path to inner-happiness (?) while Firebreak has more than a bit of Leonard Cohen melancholia to it too; but with a cool DIY synth backing.
I’m looking forward to hearing more of the same very soon.
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