Artist: Damien Jurado Album: Caught In The Trees Release Date: 27/10/08 Label: Secretly Canadian Link: www.myspace.com/damienjurado Jurado's album is nicely schizophrenic. He plays the country boy, the pessimistic poet, Neil Young, Kurt Cobain…and that's only in the first five tracks. We get to see every facet of his personality in song form. All thirteen remind me of a different artist,.
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New Wax Seattle's Damien Jurado has cemented himself as a veteran of indie folk-rock and his recent releases have been predominantly somber journeys so the more upbeat feel of his new album Caught In The Trees seems like a sensible respite for the songwriter. Background vocalist Jenna Conrad adds an interesting element to the material and the rock-out knob is turned a few notches up from ...
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DAMIEN JURADO's newest release, "Caught In The Trees", is now available for pre-order on both CD & LP from Secretly Canadian. "Caught In the Trees" is not a major departure from his past minimalist folk albums, but lyrically Jurado shows strides of maturity with his new release. Best known for his first person (fictional) tales, Jurado now invites [...]~~
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Artist: Damien Jurado Album: Caught In The Trees Release Date: 27/10/08 Label: Secretly Canadian Link: www.myspace.com/damienjurado Jurado's album is nicely schizophrenic. He plays the country boy, the pessimistic poet, Neil Young, Kurt Cobain…and that's only in the first five tracks. We get to see every facet of his personality in song form. All thirteen remind me of a different artist,.
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I was listening to a 9/30 edition of a WNYC Soundcheck podcast featuring a live performance by Damien Jurado playing songs from Caught in the Trees. Although he's a fantastic song-writer, the interview is what I found more intriguing (see link below). As the story goes Jurado, over the years has written primarily in character form; however, due to some tough and dark times over the past year ...
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New Wax Seattle's Damien Jurado has cemented himself as a veteran of indie folk-rock and his recent releases have been predominantly somber journeys so the more upbeat feel of his new album Caught In The Trees seems like a sensible respite for the songwriter. Background vocalist Jenna Conrad adds an interesting element to the material and the rock-out knob is turned a few notches up from ...
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Seattle songwriter Damien Jurado will release his next album for Secretly Canadian on September 9. The record is called Caught in the Trees, and it features writing collaborations with Jurado's bandmates Jenna Conrad and Eric Fisher.All three members of the band will head out on tour this month in anticipation of the new record. Their first few dates are in the UK, but Damien and company will h...
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In this, the most recent and only clip, from Damien Jurado's newest LP Caught in the Trees (Secretly Canadian), Damien, band mates Eric & Jenna, and little brother Drake Jurado get their There Will Be Blood on in a major way. The video was directed by Matt Daniels/Thinklab Productions and it's incredibly beautiful to put it bluntly. Really, it's one of the most aesthetically pleasing musi...
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DAMIEN JURADO's newest release, "Caught In The Trees", is now available for pre-order on both CD & LP from Secretly Canadian. "Caught In the Trees" is not a major departure from his past minimalist folk albums, but lyrically Jurado shows strides of maturity with his new release. Best known for his first person (fictional) tales, Jurado now invites [...]~~
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Well not really, you'll have to wait till Friday to see the actual video that was directed by Thinklab (aka Matt Daniels). This here is just a teaser but definitely worth a look. The actual video is breathtaking and this behind the scenes footage is a nice little glimpse into the making of Matt's art. [...]
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Normally, I don't post a lot of commentary as of late because I am wading through so much PR stuff, I can't wrap my head around it all. Two weeks ago, we migrated to a new server, so in...
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