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 requited; som...   [ 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 sim...   [ 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 what cou...   [ read more ]

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