The same goes for Jurado’s stark and affecting new album, In The Shape of a Storm, out April 12. Though Jurado self-produced the LP and wrote the songs a year before his death, his friendship and bond with Swift still weigh heavily throughout its tracks. Richard Swift passed away in the summer of 2018, just after Jurado released his excellent LP The Horizon Just Laughed. But most of all, they all sound fucking great and adventurous. Inspired by a dream Jurado had of a fictional town, the narrative he tells over the three LPs is heady, full of spiritual and sci-themes and full of emotional gut-punches. That collaboration, which Jurado says allowed him to finally sound like himself, sparked one of the best musical tandems of the 2010s, specifically with Jurado’s ambitious and affecting Maraqopa album trilogy: 2012’s Maraqopa, 2014’s Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son and 2016’s Visions of Us on the Land. That changed with 2010’s Saint Bartlett, the first album he recorded with the late producer and musician’s musician Richard Swift. Highlights included the avant-garde Ghost of David from 20’s personal collection Caught In The Trees.īut while many of the songs on Caught In The Trees hold up, Jurado was creatively drained and in a personal rut. Following his first efforts in the late ’90s as a Sub Pop-signed folk singer (his 1999 LP Rehearsals for Departure features one of his most enduring songs in “Ohio”), Jurado was staggeringly prolific into the aughts, putting out a total of eight albums that decade. Over 14 albums and almost 25 years of making music, Damien Jurado’s career has been one of quiet reinvention.
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