Joseph Roberts - Something Beautiful Won't Come Out
Singer-songwriter Joseph Roberts recently released a hauntingly beautiful track, entitled “Something Beautiful Won’t Come Out.”
Joseph Roberts
The song revolves around re-memory, the glow of new love and its ensuing loss. Full of elusive memories and tantalizing wisps of recollection, it’s a poignant tune that’s simultaneously devout and intensely passionate.
Currently based in Los Angeles, Roberts cites musical influences such as James Taylor, Michael Franks, The Smiths, and The Sundays. Roberts’ sound merges filaments of dream-pop, pop, and velvety electro-pop. Legendary producer, Rupert Hine (The Fixx, Howard Jones, and Rush), calls Roberts "an artist with something to say."
“Something Beautiful Won’t Come Out” opens on dreamy streaming synths exuding smooth textures and pale gleaming surfaces. The flow of the music, radiant, tender, and buttery, projects the redolence of grief or perhaps regret. The melody releases polished layers of dream-pop instilled with savors of sophisticated, elegant electro-pop. There’s an intriguing field of suppressed energy to the music, as if a few nodes of fact are enveloped in the ambiguity of the luminous brush of reminiscence.
Roberts voice, exquisitely rich and under delicious lilting control, infuses the lyrics with misty lingering flavors, as well as susceptibility and low-level, restrained urgency.
Roberts' voice, exquisitely rich and under delicious lilting control, infuses the lyrics with misty lingering flavors, as well as susceptibility and low-level, restrained urgency. It’s a captivating, evocative voice, rife with gorgeous timbres.
“You wash up / Part of you at sea / Clouds are a signal / You’re into deep / Wait inside your mind / Find some place to hide / When all across the sky / Is an all-out war / But something beautiful won’t come out / Something beautiful won’t come out.”
The mood of “Something Beautiful Won’t Come Out” is complex: cool melancholy, almost fugitive insistence, along with a substratum of doubt and foreboding, all the product of seminal circumstances: subtle emotional responses, the security provided by connection, and the fact he can’t conceive of any emotional recourse.
“Something Beautiful Won’t Come Out” is enchanting, beguiling, and wonderfully appealing, both harmonically and vocally.
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