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  • Summary: The theme of family is the focus for the 14th full-length solo release for the Ohio singer-songwriter.
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You Keep Hanging On
I love you more than my pain Says I should I love you more when you're rain Than the desert would You say life's in the past When we were strong But... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Magnet
    Aug 9, 2016
    90
    Just like one's real family, Arthur's Family will lift you up, tear you down, make you face your despair and allow you a glimmer of hope. [No. 133, p.52]
  2. Mojo
    Aug 9, 2016
    80
    The whole shebang is a lovely thing to bring back to Real World, the label that first signed Arthur back in 1997. [Aug 2016, p.96]
  3. Aug 9, 2016
    70
    The Family isn't a grand statement, but an intimate one. Despite the dark threads that run through it and bind it, this collection is as moving as it is harrowing, as tender as it is tenacious. It's an album Arthur had to make, and as such is completely redemptive.
  4. Uncut
    Aug 9, 2016
    70
    The album unfolds like a fever dream, the instruments bleeding into each other, awash in echo, as Arthur layers metaphors much as he layers the parts of the self-performed album. [Aug 2016, p.71]
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