Sixteenth studio album from prolific singer-songwriter.
Pipe Records: 15 November 2005
Last updated: 20 November 2008
Now on his 16th studio album (his 22nd in total, including live collections, compilations and collaborations), Martyn Joseph's Deep Blue retains the no-frills, few overdubs policy established on his previous album Whoever It Was That Brought Me Here.
- Some Of Us
- Can't Breathe
- Six Sixty Six
- How Did We End Up Here
- I Would Never Do Anything In
- This World To Hurt You
- This Fragile World
- Yet Still This Will Not Be
- Proud Valley Boy
- Turn Me Tender
- Can't Breathe (Acoustic)
It leads to a live, often intimate sound based around a core of guitar, piano, drums and vocals.
In the devil-baiting Six Sixty Six, the anti-war How Did We End Up Here and the weary despair of Yet Still This Will Not Be, there's a thread of repugnance running through Deep Blue. Martyn even laments the changing face of Wales, in Proud Valley Boy where "Health spas where the body shines/Have now entombed the dripping mines". But there's hope at its heart, most notably in the search for salvation and better days in Turn Me Tender.
One of his finest releases to date, Deep Blue will be loved by Martyn Joseph's ever-growing and loyal following. And with the likes of James Blunt and David Gray making a mint from sensitive songs, there's clearly a bigger prize for the taking. Major labels? Who needs them anyway?
Words: Joe Goodden
