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 stuff, and he sings it from his gut. Such is the magic of Damien Jurado. Features many familiar faces including Crooked Fingers frontman Eric Bachman.