An Evening with Joseph Arthur March 25, 2010

For his entire, decade-long recording career, Joseph Arthur has been a gushing fountain of creativity, and he doesn't show any signs of slowing down. While he's now releasing four EPs as a prelude to the full-length album All You Need Is Nothing, he's actually done this once before, releasing his four Junkyard Hearts EPs to prepare the way for his well- received 2002 full-length Redemption's Son. Arthur is a prolific visual artist as well, with the paintings that decorated his 2000 Vacancy EP earning him a Grammy nomination for package design.

"I don't really believe in ‘writer's block,'" the artist notes, chuckling and doodling as he talks. "Because I'm always looking for a way to get what I've recorded and written released. I have ‘releasing block.'"

Arthur is both lyrically inventive and musically restless. His two previous full lengths, released just nine months apart-Let's Just Be and Nuclear Daydream- showcased two different sides of his musical leanings-raw, Stones-y swagger on the former, and meticulously produced atmospheric pop on the latter. And now, thanks his independent label, Lonely Astronaut Records, Arthur has something of a cure for ‘releasing block,' with much more freedom to offer his limitless creativity to the world.

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