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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Oct 10, 2006
- Summary: The singer-songwriter's first recording sessions with a full band were so productive, there was enough material for two albums. 'Shadow' will be followed by the second (and more upbeat) batch of songs in early 2007.
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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It is, in a word, magnificent.
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Shadow simply holds together better than recent Jurado efforts.
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UncutThere's something curiously inviting about this understated music. [Nov 2006, p.120]
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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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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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The feel is late night, on the edge of quiet, and full of pathos.
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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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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ZacchaeusCOct 23, 2006
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StevenGOct 19, 2006
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BenGOct 23, 2006After Jurado's last album, I wasn't expecting much from this one, but I think it's his best yet.
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JakeTOct 25, 2006
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madslDec 4, 2006
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