Vagabond Skies

Infobox Album |
Name = Vagabond Skies
Type = EP
Artist = Joseph Arthur


Released = June 10 2008
August 12 2008 (Canada)
Recorded = 2008
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 22:22
Label = Lonely Astronaut Records
Producer = Joseph Arthur
Mathias Schneeberger
Mike Napolitano
Reviews = *AbsolutePunk.net (80%) [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=411161 link]
* Allmusic (not rated) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dvfexzujldte link]
* Comfort Comes (7.8/10) [http://comfortcomes.com/?page=reviews&id=2411 link]
* Pitchfork Media (3.8/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/51438 link]
Last album = "Crazy Rain (EP)"
(2008)
This album = "Vagabond Skies (EP)"
(2008)
Next album = "Foreign Girls (EP)"
(2008)

"Vagabond Skies" is an EP by singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur, released June 10, 2008, and is the third in a series of four EPs released in anticipation of Arthur's seventh studio album, "Temporary People". According to Arthur, this EP is "more stripped-down, more acoustic and slower...it's more of a late-night type of music." [ [http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/review.asp?rid=13590 Orlando Weekly - Music Review - Could We Survive] ]

The EP also marks the first studio recording of "She Paints Me Gold," a song Joseph has often played at his live shows since November 2004. [ [http://lonelyastronauts.com/song/song.php?title=She%20Paints%20Me%20Gold&id=166 LONELY ASTRONAUTS - SONGOGRAPHY (She Paints Me Gold)] ] A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIse7stipw music video] made for "She Paints Me Gold" features a sequential collection of still photographs, taken by Cerise Leang on New Year's Eve 2007, documenting one of Joseph's all-night paintings. [ [http://stereogum.com/archives/video/joseph-arthur-hijacks-a-billboard-paints-all-night_010245.html Joseph Arthur...Paints All Night - Stereogum.com] ] Another [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNBaGY1sk0g music video] was also produced for "Second Sight," directed by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel, featuring video footage of Joseph lip-synching the song projected onto a billboard over Lafayette Street and Grand Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. [ [http://stereogum.com/archives/video/joseph-arthur-hijacks-a-billboard-paints-all-night_010245.html Joseph Arthur...Paints All Night - Stereogum.com] ]

Track listing

# "Slow Me Down" - 3:01
# "Even When Yer Blue" - 3:17
# "Pretty Good Company" - 3:05
# "She Paints Me Gold" - 5:33
# "Second Sight" - 3:58
# "It's Too Late" - 3:28

Notes

* All songs written by Joseph Arthur.
* Produced by Joseph Arthur, Mathias Schneeberger, and Mike Napolitano.
* Musicians:
** Joseph Arthur: vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, drums, keyboards, programming
** Mathias Schneeberger: electric guitar
** Kenny Siegal: acoustic guitar, piano
** Joan Wasser: violin, background vocals
** Greg Wieczorek: drums
** Ethan Eubanks: drums
** Rene Lopez: drums
** Cat Martino: background vocals on "She Paints Me Gold"
* Art direction and packaging design by Joseph Arthur.
* Photography by Danny Clinch.
* Lonely Astronaut Records #LA005.

External links

* [http://stereogum.com/archives/video/joseph-arthur-hijacks-a-billboard-paints-all-night_010245.html Videos of "She Paints Me Gold" and "Second Sight" on Stereogum.com]

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