★★★★★
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Diplo's Major Lazer project lends itself to the EP format. Its spastic, booty-shaking, dancehall-tinged music is best in brief doses, and it usually struggles when it is tasked to maintain momentum and attention for thirty-plus minutes...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2014-03-11
★★★★★
His eleventh studio album (and also his third collaborative effort with Richard Swift behind the mixing desk), Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Flame continues in the same vein as the previous two Damien Jurado / Swift productions but delves even deeper into the darkly psychedelic territory set out on 2010's St. Bartlett and 2012's Maraqopa. Here Swift's musical influence is even more evident than before and boy does it work well...
- www.state.ie
2014-01-30
★★★★★
There's always been a hint of spirituality to Damien Jurado. The Seattle-born singer/songwriter's solo recordings tend to bathe in chiming melodies and puritanical lyricism, creating deep and soulful psalms flushed with introspection. For album number 13, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, Jurado takes his musical piety one step further, creating a record that focuses on the inner workings of a self-made religious community. Thankfully, Jurado has lost none of his knack for a song...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2014-01-25
★★★★★
Music Reviews
Damien Jurado Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
(Secretly Canadian)
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With his eleventh album under this belt, Damien Jurado has paved a versatile and storied path, encapsulating everything from a coffee shop soundtrack to a full-blown psychedelic revival...
- www.noripcord.com
2014-01-25
★★★★★
Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son is Damien Jurado's 11th album, but more importantly it's the third piece in a Richard Swift-produced triptych that began with 2010's St. Bartlett and continued on 2012's Maraqopa. If those first two are linked by the psychedelic experimentation and other studio stamps unique to the Jurado-Swift partnership, Brothers and Sisters is a no-bones-about-it sequel to Maraqopa; several tracks reference the mythical locale conjured from one of Jurado's dreams, and...
- pitchfork.com
2014-01-23
★★★★★
Five days before Damien Jurado released his new album, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, the sun went to sleep. "I've been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I've never seen anything quite like this," reported the head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In the absence of a firm scientific explanation for the lull, Jurado's release may appear more than coincidental...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-01-22
★★★★★
Since partnering with Richard Swift on 2010's Saint Bartlett, Damien Jurado's music has diverged from that of the somber singer/songwriter he has come to be known as--leaving behind airy, sparse recordings for a world of thick reverb and echoing choirs. On Brothers and Sisters of The Eternal Son, Jurado and Swift step further away from those roots to create an otherworldly experience...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2014-01-22
★★★★★
Over his nearly 20-year career, singer-songwriter Damien Jurado has managed to bounce from one genre to the next, displaying incredible versatility but never losing his characteristically intimate and honest voice. From the timeless pop songwriting in 1999's Rehearsals For Departure, to the churning, crunching rock in 2002's I Break Chairs, and the understated, tender folk ballads of 2008's Caught In The Trees, no matter what he releases, it still manages to sound like Jurado...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-01-22
★★★★★
http://www.secretlycanadian.com/
BY LEE ZIMMERMAN
Damien Jurado has always been one to explore his every option, and if that's meant allowing his freak flag to fly, then so be it. Although not widely known to the world at large, this Seattle-based singer/songwriter has always demonstrated consistently creative intents, vetted in a string of albums that affirm his imagination and his aptitude...
- blurtonline.com
2014-01-22
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