In its pursuit of unearthing previously unheard music from the planet’s four corners, Real World has never ignored Western rock and pop. No-one’s disqualified. And in Akron, Ohio, the label (or, rather Peter Gabriel himself) found Joseph Arthur, a singer-songwriter with high-proof creative juices oozing out of every pore. 2000’s Come To Where I’m From was his second album for the label. Produced by the mighty T-Bone Burnett, it’s a dense, attractively claustrophobic record, full of delightful contradictions: unnerving and reassuring, raw and yet meticulously compiled. Tracks: In The Sun/Ashes Everywhere/Chemical/History/Invisible Hands/Cockroach/Exhausted/Eyes On My Back/Tattoo/The Real You/Creation Or A Stain/Speed Of Light