JOSEPH ARTHUR & THE LONELY ASTRONAUTS
Let’s Just Be
Lonely Astronaut/ Indica
· Every year thousands of good records go unreviewed. This was almost one of them.
The truth about music critics is that it’s much easier to shred that chump from Canadian Idol or complain about teen-pop-diva overload than it is to work out a review for a good, but ultimately average record.
Take Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts. I’ve been listening to Let’s Just Be for a month now and I can’t seem to hammer one out. There are some great twangy moments reminiscent of Beck’s Mellow Gold, some summertime rockers that sound like Wilco B-sides and some chug-heavy drug anthems that get your head nodding along in easy approval. The whole album is loaded heavy with shimmy, swagger and shaker and still, all I can muster up is:
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