Damien Jurado is the sort of songwriter who straddles rock's past and future, and with each record contributes a new chapter to an ever-fruitful body of work. His latest offering, Where Shall You Take Me? is his fifth full-length, and it's a beautiful collection of ten Raymond Carver-esque vignettes of terror and bliss in Middle America. Two decades after Springsteen's "Nebraska," Jurado puts the darker, more complicated side of the heartland back on the map with his tales of young love (some requite   [ read more ]

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In the rush to embrace the latest next-big-things, it's artists like Damien Jurado who much too often get lost in the shuffle -- once upon a time, a singer-songwriter of Jurado's depth and grace would have been anointed "the new Dylan," but today he's lucky if his brand of darkly beautiful folk-pop gets noticed at all. Rehearsals for Departure, Jurado's second full length effort for Sub Pop, deserves a much better fate -- a gifted lyricist with a comparable knack for melody, his songs are    [ read more ]

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In Holding His Breath, the new EP edited by Acuarela Discos, Damien gives us five delicate songs. "I Am the Greatest of All Liars" reveals his enigmatic and elusive side, a catalogue of what we feel but can't see. "Oh Death Art With Me" evokes the memory of Nick Drake, tarnished by the Yankee touch of Damien's voice and guitar; warning us that the Devil keeps an eye on us form the moment we set foot on Earth. "Big Let Down" is solitude and abandonment, turned into music by the rhythmical echoes of wh   [ read more ]

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With On My Way To Absence, Damien Jurado has made a break from the public, and left us all behind in the creative process. He hung up the phone and left it lying there on the counter, and in the process has created a quintessential Jurado piece of work; a masterpiece by one of today's most incredible voices. It's a dark portrait that would fit well on the plaster walls of a Fassbinder home, right next to Lou Reed's Berlin in terms of sheer emotional audacity. He finds the quick truth, the good   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Throughout his career, Jurado has released a mess of singles, EPs and three previous full-length albums, and with I Break Chairs, a new batch of songs comes to light. In what's quickly becoming the only true Jurado style, the record heads off in new directions, with a full band called Gathered in Song filling out and styling his folky lyrical approach and straightforward guitar playing into perfect pop gems. Thematically, Damien visits ground fans will be familiar with: friends disappoint   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of On My Way to Absence and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. With On My Way To Absence, Damien Jurado has made a break from the public, and left us all behind in the creative process. He hung up the phone and left it lying there on the counter, and in the process has created a quintessential Jurado piece of work; a masterpiece by one of today's most incredible voices. It's    [ read more ]

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Just In Time For Something is a beautiful little postcard from Damien's neck of the woods. Self-recorded during a long weekend using a '67 tube-powered reel-to-reel which Damien picked up especially for this EP, these new tunes sound like Alan Lomax field recordings from the mid-60's. You can hear him catch his stride and lose himself in these beautiful songs. His voice is that of an angel. Just as Nick Drake was able to convey that complicated sense of uplifting sorrow in his songs and in his voice,   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Best known for his dark yet fragile first person fictional tales, Damien Jurado now unlocks the door and invites us into his own enigmatic world with an energy and intensity that is all consuming. Close friends and band mates Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad collaborated on the compositions - some more rocking than Jurado fans are used to, but as intense as ever.

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Where Shall You Take Me and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Damien Jurado is the sort of songwriter who straddles rock 's past and future,and with each record contributes a new chapter to an ever-fruitful body of work.His latest offering Where Shall You Take Me? is his fifth full-length,and is a beautiful collection of ten Raymond Carver-esque vignettes terror and bliss in Mid   [ read more ]

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On his new album And Now That I'm In Your Shadow, Jurado once again is calling us out to meet him. With the help of now permanent members Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad, Damien has taken on a new side to his career. No longer is Damien Jurado just another solo artist but a band. Rarely from now on will any live performance just include a man with his ideas and guitar but a continuous collaboration in lyrics and sound creating a backdrop to a world that is filled with desperation and blessings, life dis   [ read more ]

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Best known for his dark yet fragile first person fictional tales, Damien Jurado now unlocks the door and invites us into his own enigmatic world with an energy and intensity that is all consuming. Close friends and band mates Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad collaborated on the compositions - some more rocking than Jurado fans are used to, but as intense as ever.

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While Damien Jurado's fans already know what an accomplished and thoughtful singer/songwriter he is, on "I Break Chairs" he also proves that he can rock with the best. With his band Gathered in Song (named after one of his EPs), Jurado puts his finely crafted lyrics in a completely different setting, matching his wound-up emotions with cranked-up guitars.

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