Icy Songsmith Struggles With Sentiment, Ghost
By Brian Millikin | January 16Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son 3 Stars Joseph Arthur is one cool customer -- almost too cool. The little-known, critically acclaimed songsmith makes a studio-savvy brand of melancholic pop. Overstuffed with textures and synthesizers, each beeping and blipping soundscape is more icily detached and slickly postmodern than the next.