- Record Label: Mama Bird Recording Co.
- Release Date: Apr 12, 2019
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MojoMay 1, 2019These 10 compact songs work both as intimate affirmation of Jurado's current brilliance and a hushed elegy for his too-soon-departed friend. [Jun 2019, p.89]
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Apr 16, 2019Flourishes of soft rock and soul-pop have completely fizzled out. It's just Damien Jurado now, his thoughts laid bare, his voice perpetually trembling on the verge of collapse. It's deeply moving.
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Apr 12, 2019Here, there are some of the sweetest songs Jurado has ever recorded.
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UncutApr 5, 2019It's a gorgeous and gutting return to Jurado's Rehearsals For Departure-era roots, wandering and bare, wielding only guitar and voice and recorded in one afternoon. [May 2019, p.30]
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Apr 5, 2019Although the songs were not conceived as an album and, therefore, don't carry quite the weightiness of some of the Jurado's most profound works, In the Shape of a Storm still seems essential as a showcase of his songcraft at its most elemental.
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Apr 5, 2019Jurado possesses a gift for elevated simplicity, and this quality graces In the Shape of a Storm and gives its ten songs a pleasingly rounded shape.
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Apr 9, 2019Although the switch to stark monochrome from the blazing multicolour of the Maraqopa trilogy can seem underwhelming and slight at first, further listens reveal In the Shape of a Storm--boosted by Jurado’s hypnotically committed, intimate performances--to hold together surprisingly well considering the disparate origins of the material.
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Apr 5, 2019In the Shape of a Storm is an album’s worth of that feeling. In grief many cloak themselves in distractions, or hide away entirely: Jurado treats it as an invitation to look closer, feel deeper.
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Apr 12, 2019It Took the Shape of a Storm may turn out to be a stop and restart album in Jurado's career, a compass point between significant bearings. If it is, it is both a worthwhile, fitting pause and a promise of new adventure to come.
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Apr 10, 2019As with so much of Jurado's work, In the Shape of a Storm is simple in its construction, but panoramic in its impact.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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Apr 21, 2019
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Jan 20, 2021I count this record as a dear companion I intend to keep close for the rest of my days.