| Artist |
Joseph Arthur |
| Album Title: |
Our Shadows Will Remain |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Indie |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
10/12/2004 |
| Label |
Vector Recordings |
| Catalog No |
70000-2 |
| Bar Code No |
1 84697 0001 4 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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In Ohio (0:46)
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| 2.
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Can't Exist (4:08)
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| 3.
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Stumble and Pain (4:43)
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| 4.
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Devil's Broom (4:46)
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| 5.
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Echo Park (2:51)
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| 6.
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Even Tho (4:47)
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| 7.
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Puppets (3:53)
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| 8.
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Wasted (4:13)
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| 9.
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Failed (4:22)
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| 10.
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I Am (4:14)
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| 11.
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A Smile That Explodes (3:21)
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| 12.
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Leave Us Alone (3:47)
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| Date Acquired |
02/04/2005 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Electric Fetus - Minneapolis |
| Purchase Price |
16.19 |
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Notes |
Standard jewel box with clear tray housed in slipcase
+36 pages booklet (paintings by Joseph Arthur, thanks & credits)
Arranged By [Strings] – Andrew Sherman (tracks: 3, 5, 6)
Drums – Ethan Eubanks (tracks: 4, 6, 7, 9)
Engineer – Dawn Landes, Jaraj Durovic, Mike Napolitano, Rick Will
Mastered By – Ted Jensen
Mixed By – Joseph Arthur, Rick Will
Mixed By [Assistant] – Andy Sarroff
Piano, Clavinet, Organ, Synthesizer – Andrew Sherman
Producer – Joseph Arthur, Mike Napolitano (tracks: 2, 3, 6 to 10, 12)
Producer [Additional] – Andrew Sherman, Ken Rich
Programmed By – Joseph Arthur, Mike Napolitano
Strings – The City Of Prague Philharmonic (tracks: 3, 5, 6)
Vocals, Guitar, Guitar [Dobro], Bass, Piano, Synthesizer, Organ, Percussion, Omnichord – Joseph Arthur
Written-By – Joseph Arthur (tracks: all tracks)
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Analyzed: Joseph Arthur / Our Shadows Will Remain
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -2.35 dB -15.30 dB 0:46 01-In Ohio
DR5 -0.08 dB -7.32 dB 4:09 02-Can't Exist
DR5 -0.29 dB -7.19 dB 4:43 03-Stumble and Pain
DR5 -0.30 dB -7.46 dB 4:46 04-Devil's Broom
DR8 -0.30 dB -10.96 dB 2:52 05-Echo Park
DR5 -0.30 dB -7.33 dB 4:47 06-Even Tho
DR5 -0.29 dB -7.41 dB 3:54 07-Puppets
DR6 -0.30 dB -7.73 dB 4:14 08-Wasted
DR8 -0.30 dB -9.95 dB 4:23 09-Failed
DR5 -0.30 dB -6.93 dB 4:15 10-I Am
DR9 -0.30 dB -11.26 dB 3:22 11-A Smile That Explodes
DR5 -0.29 dB -9.69 dB 3:48 12-Leave Us Alone
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR6
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 6
Bitrate: 843 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Thom Jurek
Joseph Arthur, who had been a critic's darling since his debut in 1998, scored a kind of sleeper hit on the fringes with 2002's Redemption's Son. His searing poetic lyrics and quirky, left-of-the-dial rock and pop sensibilities shone like a flickering beacon from the underside of human emotion and vulnerability. On Our Shadows Will Remain, he takes a further left turn from the heart of isolation and darkness into the broken heart of humanity, seeking to reveal the commonality of experience on the emotional and societal fringes via a sonically labyrinthine tapestry that is by turns raucous, tender, brash, and beautiful. On "Can't Exist," the glissando pop layers of organ and electric guitars underscore his broken, unapologetically confessional lyrics -- "Well I can't exist when you disappear/Disintegrate and I swallow everything/Sister don't be scared, a thousand times or more, I've walked away alive/On my feet again." As the chorus comes roaring from the center, a wall of squalling guitars ushers in a chorus of voices singing a mutant, netherworld gospel of determination and tears. On "Stumble and Pain," a muddied bass and drum pulse plods from the heart of the mix, as a fuzzed-out electric guitar and a forlorn, wasted bluesy acoustic carry Arthur's sung poetry over a string section played by the Prague Philharmonic -- though they sound like they are a forgotten string quartet playing for its life at the end of time itself.
The spidery rock of "Devil's Broom" is more straight-ahead at the front but somehow more ominous: "In the time when I can't enough to make it/Give me back half the sense that I used to have/Waking up in the sun face down on the pavement/Everything I own in a garbage bag" -- but by the time the refrain slides around everything becomes lush, nightmarishly euphoric, and utterly strange and beautiful. Another standout is "Echo Park." The wonderfully arranged strings provide a patchy cushion that is elegant, graceful, and nearly pastoral, as they hover above and float though Arthur's poignant yet hopeful love song. "Even Tho" is a mutant pop song, with drum loops, wispy, shimmering keyboards, and a killer falsetto soul vocal from Arthur. The muscular drum loop "Wasted" undercuts the vulnerable vocal and dubby organ and electric piano lines. And so it goes on into the nocturnal, narcotic faux R&B groove of "Failed," the fractured overdrive lullaby that is "I Am," and the spindly, skeletal tenderness that is "A Smile That Explodes." The set closes with the spooky, harrowing narrative of "Leave Us Alone," closing the record on a fractured note. But the fragmentation, disintegration, and outsider narratives that are at the heart of the protagonists in Arthur's songs are familiar, too. Though they may live on the stiletto edges, they speak our language in that they bravely and even innocently articulate the most hidden of emotions, the ones we are afraid to admit let alone speak. And in doing so they bring them into the scope of the reachable, the mentionable, and their weight can be shared even among those of us lucky or fearful enough to never experience their consequences. Arthur is in a class of his own and Our Shadows Will Remain is a monstrous, memorable outing, his finest moment in a career that is thus far full of them.
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