Damien Jurado

Damien Jurado - In The Shape Of A Storm

Released 12th April 2019. Damien Jurado has always worked fast, but In the Shape of a Storm came ...

Released 12th April 2019. Damien Jurado has always worked fast, but In the Shape of a Storm came together with unprecedented speed. Recorded over the course of two hours om one California afternoon, it's Jurado's sparsest album to date. Gone are the thundering drums and psychedelic arrangements that defined the trilogy of concept albums he made with his longtime collaborator and close friend Richard Swift. Gone even is the atmospheric air that hovered above his early albums for Sub Pop. Here,...

Damien Jurado - The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania

Released 14th May 2021. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Damien Jurado gathers up ten stori...

Released 14th May 2021. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Damien Jurado gathers up ten stories of people determined not to be broken by their dire circumstances. ‘The world is a liar, the stars are a must,’ he sings over brushed drums, a circling bassline, and acoustic guitar on ‘Helena,’ which opens his 17th album, the first release from Damien’s own Maraqopa Records. Dire circumstances have long been fixtures of Jurado’s songs, which are filled with ghosts, killers, cruel lovers, and t...

Damien Jurado - What's New, Tomboy?

Released 1st May 2020. 'What's New, Tomboy?' is an album that seeks respite in bare minimums and ...

Released 1st May 2020. 'What's New, Tomboy?' is an album that seeks respite in bare minimums and barren revelations: sometimes frail, sometimes affirming, sometimes wry, and usually a threadbare mix of all those sentiments.