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Damien Jurado’s Private Hospital arrives as a unique book and download package, concluding his “Reggae Film Star” pentalogy. The combination of song lyrics and photo essay (Jurado is an avid collector of ‘found photos’) is abstract but powerful, creating a sense of wistfulness, melancholy or the uncanny. It is a cinematic, poetic collection that starts like a dream but reveals deep emotional resonance upon repeated listens.

Damien Jurado is releasing his new album, “Private Hospital,” in an innovative book format. The album is the final instalment of his five-part “Reggae Film Star” pentalogy. Jurado is moving away from traditional physical formats like vinyl, citing environmental concerns and a desire to release music in more “constructive, fun, and environmentally conscious ways.”

Damien Jurado visits Amoeba Music Record Store in Hollywood and selects some of his favourite albums including Scott Walker, Jessica Pratt, Fugazi, King Crimson and more.

Damien Jurado’s ‘Reggae Film Star’ is an album that owes much of its thematic muscle to the cinema. The musical diversity is all the more striking given the album’s conceptual clarity. It’s an addictive listen, full of faded beauty and lit by distant hope.

The fabric of Damien Jurado’s finely woven universe looks set to expand even further. We chat to him about his latest album, his big plans for 2022, disconnecting and slowing down in an age of information overload & 24-hour news, gratitude and more.

Listen to “Tom’, the new single from Damien Jurado taken from his forthcoming new album “The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania”, one on which he offers up his own Twilight Zone.

Damien Jurado announces his 17th album ‘The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania’. The self-produced album is to be released on his new label Maraqopa Records. An album with a dry, homespun ambience, listen to lead single Helena.

Jurado is the perfect songwriter for these strange times. He is wistful without ever wallowing in nostalgia, and he balances heartbreak with hope in a way that few artists can. This represents some of his finest work to date.

Having spent several restless years in search and motion, it would seem Jurado has finally found a shore on which to set anchor and land, the fact that he wrote these songs many years ago fittingly echoing the sense of waiting for time to unfold its plans.

Damien Jurado has revealed his video for his latest single Percy Faith, taken from his album The Horizon Just Laughed  (out now on Secretly Canadian), his first self-produced album in a 20+ year career.

Damien Jurado has revealed his new video for ‘Qachina’, the second single from his forthcoming album ‘Visions of Us On The Land’. It was filmed over 4 days wandering the desert everywhere from Joshua Tree to Salton Sea.

Damien Jurado unveils his new video for ‘Exit 353’ from his forthcoming new album Visions of Us on the Land, due out in March. UK and European Tour kicks off in April.