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Nuclear Daydream by Joseph Arthur

Joseph Arthur

Nuclear Daydream

Release Date: Sep 19, 2006

Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Singer-Songwriter

Record label: Megaforce / Lonely Astronaut

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Album Review: Nuclear Daydream by Joseph Arthur

Excellent, Based on 1 Critic

AllMusic - 80
Based on rating 8/10

The flagship release on Joseph Arthur's own Lonely Astronaut label, Nuclear Daydream is a lushly produced and exquisitely delivered collection of 12 new songs, linked by his never-less-than florid eye for sometimes-'60s pop arrangements, and a lyricism that would put you in mind of a host of other performers, if you didn't know that the likes of Michael Stipe and Chris Martin are as influenced by Arthur as he is by them. The single "Too Much to Hide" opens the set on a blustering wall of symphonics; elsewhere, Nuclear Daydream aims for a more stripped-back approach, just Arthur's curiously vulnerable vocal against an acoustic guitar, or the sounds of a blues band, rehearsing in another room. Occasionally, it does get a little too calculated -- the half-falsetto that strains through "Slide Away" puts one in mind of the preposterous squawking that Mick Jagger layered through the Stones' "Emotional Rescue.

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