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April 9, 2008

New Joseph Arthur - "I Wanna Get You Alone"

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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?

Joseph Arthur - "I Wanna Get You Alone" (MP3)

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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k

Mister Arthur used to be so good. SO so good.

Posted by: k profile link at 04/10/08 12:20 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: Stephen profile link at 04/10/08 2:29 PM | Reply
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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--

Posted by: Brenda at 04/11/08 12:50 PM | Reply
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arthur is amzing and this song rocks

Posted by: cutie at 04/11/08 1:01 PM | Reply
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love it

Posted by: cutieknocks at 04/11/08 1:02 PM | Reply
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I agree this song totally rocks. Its awesome.

Posted by: Jess at 04/11/08 4:55 PM | Reply
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Come on people...this song is awful

Posted by: BERGSON at 05/04/08 4:47 PM | Reply
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I hate to agree that this is a lazy piece of songwriting from someone who is usually light years better. But it does rock....

Posted by: Progressive Patriot at 11/08/08 1:42 AM | Reply
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