Sep. 10, 2008 - Issue #673: Sex in the City 2008
New Sounds - Damien Jurado
Caught in the Trees
(Secretly Canadian)
Caught in the Trees is a very apt name for Damien Jurado’s latest, his third release for Secretly Canadian, one of the more reliable labels for folk and pop. On the one hand, it implies striving for something higher while getting mired in something more grounded, a theme that runs through many of Jurado’s slow, easy acoustic songs—”Paper Kite,” being a good example as well as a hauntingly delicate song. On the other, it could also be read as being lost in the forest, which also readily applies to Jurado: while his music is certainly pleasant enough, Jurado rarely does anything to seperate himself from any other number of quiet, acoustically inclined singer/songwriters. V
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