- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Oct 10, 2006
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The feel is late night, on the edge of quiet, and full of pathos.
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Flavorless.
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It is, in a word, magnificent.
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MagnetAnd Now That I'm In Your Shadow finds him at another peak. [#74, p.98]
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While Jurado's records often alternate between vanishing ballads and melancholy pop-rockers, Shadow revolves entirely around the former-- the songs are unstintingly slow, delicate, and sparse to the brink of abstraction.
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It’s a minimalist album that builds from the ground up: a voice, a guitar, a piano, maybe a violin.
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Shadow simply holds together better than recent Jurado efforts.
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Where Jurado differs from someone like Jason Molina is in the vibrancy of the actual music.
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Jurado does downtrodden and mournful better than most, but concentrated strings of songs about being "restless 'til my death," "sadness in her eyes," and a hotel hospital add up to a tearstained emotional assault delivered with virtually no relief.
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Individually, the tracks are every bit as good as anything else he’s ever written; as a whole, however, the album is too much of the same thing, as one glum tale follows another.
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UncutThere's something curiously inviting about this understated music. [Nov 2006, p.120]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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madslDec 4, 2006
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JakeTOct 25, 2006
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ZacchaeusCOct 23, 2006