Redemption's Son - Joseph Arthur
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

  • Summary: The only "rock" act signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World label, Akron, Ohio native Joseph Arthur returns with his third album.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. In the current pop singer-songwriter renaissance, Arthur's art stands out as the most emotionally naked and musically ambitious. [3 Jan 2003, p.64]
  2. 80
    A four-course meal of a record. [July 2002, p.108]
  3. 80
    This time around, Grammy-bagging mixer Tchad Blake has replace T-Bone Burnett as producer and brought added intimacy without sacrificing dreamy magnetism. [Sep 2002, p.103]
  4. 60
    There are moments when this third album is blissfully gorgeous--just not enough of them to make his song of himself interesting to others. [#11, p.125]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. ClydeR
    10
    Simply gorgeous.
  2. JennieC.
    10
    I love it, his music is so personal. He is such a talented artist, a treasure amidst the fake "pop" music of right now. Joseph Arthur is a genious!!
  3. stevep
    10
    One of the best albums ever recorded. No exaggeration.
  4. robinv
    9
    take a blender...throw in your first love affair, your angst of reaching adulthood, your reminiscence of your youth, triumphs and tragedies, a little bit of bob dylans influence, with a sense of humor....it would come out sounding somewhat like this album....... Expand

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