At the conclusion of the majestic Maraqopa trilogy, and four consecutive records with Richard Swift behind the boards, Damien Jurado returns to a previous form on his upcoming, self-produced lp, The Horizon Just Laughed. This week witnessed the second taste from the album with the stripped down, minimally-orchestral “Allocate.” The album title almost feels like […]

2016 was a good year for Damien Jurado fans. In addition to Sub Pop Records reissuing two of his sought after early albums, Rehearsals for Departure and Ghost of David, Jurado released the final album in his Maraqopa Trilogy, the hypnagogic Visions of Us on The Land. Owing to psychedelic folk and dub influences, the […]

Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2016. Have at it.  – AD ____________________________________________________________________________________ Heron Oblivion –  S/T: For listeners whose love of exploratory, thunderous psychedelic rock is matched only by their jones for classic Britfolk, Heron Oblivion’s self-titled debut […]

Damien Jurado’s next full-length, Visions of Us on the Land, hits March 18th via longtime label home Secretly Canadian. It’s Jurado’s 13th album, and marks the artists fourth collaboration with producer Richard Swift. As partnerships go, theirs has been – and continues to be – an increasingly fertile and spirited artistic marriage. The album also […]

Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2014. Have at it.  – AD _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground Super Deluxe: Mono mixes, closet mixes, 2014 mixes, whatever mixes. What makes the hefty price tag on this reissue […]

For most of his career, Damien Jurado’s records have been low key, sturdy things. There were stylistic outliers, sure – the crashing indie rock of 2002’s I Break Chairs and the minimal electronics of songs like “Big Decision” from 2005’s On My Way to Absence — but for a good, long stretch, Jurado albums were […]

Our obligatory year-end review. Aside from our album of the year, Father John Misty’s Fear Fun, the following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2012. Go nuts. Cheers – AD _____________________________________________________________________________________ Josh Tillman did more than relocate from Seattle to Los Angeles. He was reborn. Christening himself Father […]