Let's Just Be - Joseph Arthur
User Score
5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 5 out of 16

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  1. BobW
    Apr 17, 2007
    10
    A great listen. Joseph at his best....
  2. Brynn
    Sep 22, 2007
    9
    I live for live music and i love the loose feel of this album. hearing these new songs at the shows made me fall in love. i guess everyone sees things differently.
  3. RockQuark
    Apr 17, 2007
    10
    Better than the last one....
  4. Matt
    Apr 17, 2007
    9
    While not as deepy personal/ poetic like other of his efforts, this album hold its own special place in Arthur's ever-growing catalogue. Oh, and the Lonely Astronauts...there are not enough adjectives in the dictionary to describe their musical bliss. 'Let's Just Be' is what music is all about...letting loose and having fun.

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Metascore
59 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Paste Magazine
    70
    A chaotic mix of gorgeous T. Rex acoustic reveries, cheeky Stones-inflected rockers and studio-jam goofiness. [Apr 2007, p.55]
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Unfortunately, Arthur drags his backing players through a good deal of hoarsely hollered filler between [the] peaks. [20 Apr 2007, p.62]
  3. Los Angeles Times
    75
    Some more outré passages could have benefited from mad-scientist tinkering. But the mad-Mick Jagger that Arthur affects on the nasty "Cocaine Feet" and elsewhere is still nicely twisted.
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