Joshua James: Build Me This (Reviews)
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With his opaque, inviting lyrics and his awareness of song dynamics, James is an original voice.
Joshua James’s first album, The Sun Is Always Brighter, while frequently lovely, ran the risk at times of disappearing into the oceanic whisper of other breathy male singer-songwriter product. Many of the songs had a gloriously dark edge, but the arrangements were too pretty for the bitter pills to take effect. The harder edge of the songs on Build Me This should ensure that James’s dark tales send their messages more effectively. There is still much smoothness, though. The album opens with the intensely catchy "Coal War", which builds, gospel-style, from James’s vocal refrain accompanied only by light percussion, through…
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