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Rating: This is the stunning debut of Joseph Arthur, released by Peter Gabriel's Real World, a mature album composed of 12 special songs with incredibly poetic, ironic, and sharp lyrics.
Attempts have been made to compare Arthur's art to that of Jeff Buckley, Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen, but labeling someone like Joseph Arthur means not understanding him, and there are no better words than the ones he uses to define himself: "Someone who struggles to heal from an identity crisis by playing experimental folk-rock."
The sounds used by Arthur are astonishing; he uses sounds as if they were colors and paints his darkest visions and paranoias with notes. Through these tracks, finished loves, houses in flames, Kafkaesque mutations, faithless religious figures, heroin addicts, and shampoo bottles are reviewed.
Big City Secrets is the great secret of the magic of music, the quest for communicability, the union between the singer and his listener, and the entire album is imbued with this concept, this "sub-plot."
The concept of communicability is very strong in Birthday Card, one of the most beautiful songs on the album, which is set against the backdrop of a finished love story, where she and he exchange their feelings and sensations on pieces of paper without seeing each other.
The Secret (the magic of music) can thus take shape and substance, and in this sense, the beautiful verses of Haunted Eyes are quite emblematic, where the author's eyes become the eyes of the song, which becomes a mirror, also reflecting the gaze of the listener. All with the same eyes, we look at each other, but in reality, we look at ourselves, with our possessed eyes, our haunting eyes.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Mikel K (03:54)
I've been watching you
I liked you right away
Cause you looked like you
Might have something to say
That I would want to hear
Like you looked at me
And liked me right away
You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on
Well I'll follow you
Anywhere you wanna go
Cause you look like you
Might already know
A place we can be that feels better
Than the hole I have inside of me
You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on
You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on
You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on
You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on
06 Marina (04:03)
Marina coming off of methadone
Kickin and dreamin
And she's sleeping and screaming
Watching 90210
She'll be yelling at the screen
Until the late night show
I don't believe I'm alive she said
Everyday has something new
Aw baby with the moon I lie
And with the sun I will rise
It's all there in her eyes
You don't know how hard I try
Each time that Marina cries
It's like she's got no disguise
Marina is a human bicycle
She's riding in the park
Riding after dark
Spinning her wheels to make a psark
Hoping to change her blame into a plague
She plays guitar
She dreams and sings
She writes a song about what it means
That she never feels
Much like a human being
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