One of Britain’s most arresting live performers, Martyn Joseph’s mixture of striking guitar work, challenging lyrics and emotional vocal delivery, have one him many fans in the UK and North America. This album features the very best of his talents with his distinctive ‘up-close’ sound creating a genuine immediacy to the 10 new songs collected here.
It’s impressive that he keeps the intimacy and connection between himself and listener so well in an album that features a good range of instrumentation – here bass, percussion, piano, violin and some fantastic banjo all add the soundscape, but your focus is always drawn to his vocals and guitar.
‘Lonely Like America’ shows the political bent to his songs that has been an ever-present through his career, but there’s a good mixture of songs here with from the fragility of ‘Seahorse’, through to the up-beat ‘You’re the Moment’, and the friendship evident in the fantastic final song ‘Brothers in Exile’.
‘Under Lemonade Skies’ demonstrates why Martyn has remained one of the very best over the past couple of decades, this is a carefully crafted and constructed album that rewards on every level.
1 Always Will Be
2 So Many Lies
3 You're the Moment
4 Seahorse
5 There's Always America
6 Lonely Like America
7 One Step Up
8 No Peace
9 On My Way
10 Brothers in Exile
