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And Now That I’m In Your Shadow by
Damien Jurado (Domino)
Seattle-based singer-songwriter (and kindergarten
schoolteacher) Jurado surfaces again with his seventh
full-length album in as many years, and it’s
a career high to rival 1999’s Rehearsals
For Departure. One of his main themes has always
been the transience of much American life, and the
consequent fragility of relationships, which is explored
again here on tracks like ‘Denton, TX’,
‘I Am Still Here’ and ‘Gas Station’.
Poignant, quiet, mostly acoustic, with added cello
from Jenna Conrad, this is an album to treasure, and
keep safe some place in your heart.
First published in Magill, February 2007