We recently shared the news of Damien Jurado‘s17th album The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania. The self-produced album is to be released on his new label Maraqopa Records – named after the mysterious place which featured in his tenth studio album produced by the late Richard Swift. That news was accompanied by his first new album single, the upbeat Helena and today he returns with more homespun ambience.
With his new single, “Tom”, Jurado’s slight baritone glides over the effortless rhythm section with his subtle, dewy, guitar picking driving the song. The album’s ten songs are described as intense stories of people determined not to be broken by dire circumstances. With Helena he sang ‘You were never as big as you were told‘ while on Tom he sings of ‘your audience is leaving‘…around those lyrics of doubt he paints a surreal dreamlike world…it’s been described as his own Twilight Zone and that seems most apt here “Traveling the fairgrounds, and deciding who’s failed you at best“…
Can you not see that your audience is leaving
They were crushed in the foyers, unable to find seating
The ushers in protest for the tears they planned on keeping
Will soon turn to rivers not worthy of drinking
The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania was self-produced by Jurado and sees him backed by multi-instrumentalist Josh Gordon on bass, guitar, drums, percussion and keys. The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania will be released on Damien Jurado’s Maraqopa Records on May 14th.
DAMIEN JURADO’S EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
July 3 – VIDA festival, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
July 14 – OLT, Borgerhout, Belgium
Oct 28 – Gent – Belgium at Handelsbeurs
Oct 29 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
Oct 30 – Paterskerk, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nov 01 – Kulturkirche, Cologne, Germany
Nov 02 – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, Germany
Nov 03 – Heimathafen, Berlin, Germany
Nov 04 – Pop Seasons @ Christianskirche, Hamburg, Germany
Nov 10 2021 – Teatro Lara, Madrid, Spain
Nov 11 2021 – Rambleta, Valencia, Spain
Nov 12 2021 – Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain
Nov 14 2021 – Teatro Apolo, Barcelona, Spain
Nov 18 2021 – EartH, London, UK
Nov 19 2021 – C-Mine, Genk, Germany
Nov 20 2021 – De Spil, Roeselare, Germany