The second album collecting the soundtrack from the popular U.S. TV series "Scrubs" features Joseph's "In The Sun". - release date May 9th 2006.



"The descent into somber themes continues with singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur's powerful "In The Sun", a song you may have heard on the radio but never really been able to place."

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"The second Scrubs soundtrack gives us a solid collection of singer-songwriters leaning squarely towards the folk end of the musical spectrum and providing quality music that leaves you wondering why hip-hop and R&B dominate the musical charts when we've got talented performers like these making music."

(from The Trades)

One of the elements that makes Scrubs such an endearing program is its use of music to accentuate certain scenes. Rather than resorting to canned orchestral arrangements, Scrubs leans heavily on alternative pop/rock with an ever-frequent hint of neo-psychedelia. (...)

(...) The Coral gives us "Dreaming of You" which starts with a bassline suspiciously similar to "You're the One That I Want" from the "Grease" soundtrack and quickly evolves into an early '60s style doo-wop ditty.

(...) The descent into somber themes continues with singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur's powerful "In The Sun", a song you may have heard on the radio but never really been able to place. Fresh artist Joshua Radin gives us th

(...) The second Scrubs soundtrack gives us a solid collection of singer-songwriters leaning squarely towards the folk end of the musical spectrum and providing quality music that leaves you wondering why hip-hop and R&B dominate the musical charts when we've got talented performers like these making music. (...)

(from The Trades)

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The notion of romantic entanglement and confusion recurs throughout the album (after all, songs that fit within that category aren't exactly hard to come by), as with Citizen Cope's "Sideways" and The Mavericks' glossy set-opener "I Want To Know," but it's thankfully not all sensitive gentlemen lamenting with laser-guided focus. There are also sensitive gentlemen waxing more esoterically, like Joshua Radin in his wispy "Winter," or Joseph Arthur's "In The Sun," which is now itself ubiquitous in another rendition thanks to Michael Stipe and Chris Martin. Arthur's composition is the centerpiece of the album, a bittersweet ode that retains its optimism even as its writer doesn't seem completely sold on his own prospects.

Compilations can be a tricky business. Often times, coherent themes can be undercut by the presence of corporately-mandated singles that don't fit the overall vibe, or sets that are sequenced like they were chosen by a hundred monkeys who were simultaneously trying to type Shakespeare, but this collection is doggedly diligent, sometimes almost to a fault. With hard-bitten, world-weary contributors like Arthur and Hay countering the flow of their younger, less experienced peers, Scrubs Vol. 2 finds a nice balance, especially for those who can appreciate a solid, earnest romantic ditty for what it is.

Reviewed by
Luke Daniel Rush - June 30th, 2006
(from soundthesirens.com)