Damien Jurado-And Now That Im in Your Shadow

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Damien Jurado's records are like little outposts on a desolate Midwestern highway: overgrown filling stations, dilapidated barns, canted trailers. They have that abandoned and futile quality; rustic and battered by time, they can make us gasp with nostalgia for lives we've never lived. In Jurado's songs-- tunes for falling asleep behind the wheel with a bottle between your thighs and nothing but sky on the horizon-- you can feel his accumulated fatigue.

But if you'd spent your entire musical career trawling the same highway, always stuck between gears, you'd be tired, too. "Lover, I am still here breaking chairs," he sings on "Hoquiam", wallowing, as ever, in romantic stagnancy. Jurado's never quite in love and never quite out; he's always desperate, losing, and not too proud to beg. He's spent the better part of a decade falling for variously unavailable women-- wives, teen runaways, and people who've just moved on. It wouldn't be a Damien Jurado album if there wasn't a sense of endless return: And Now That I'm in Your Shadow finds him wearing his rut a little deeper into the road. "Does your husband know I call you sweetheart?" he asks on "What Were the Chances", going so far as to ask, "Would you change your last name to mine?" Jurado is joined by a new band on this album-- Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad-- and it's Conrad, whose voice is as lovely and self-effacing as Jurado's, who answers him amid an icy, slow-mo swirl of acoustic guitar, clicky mechanical drums, and forlorn keys: "I think my kids would mind." Has this guy ever gotten a break?