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Feb 21, 2012It results in his most adventurous and fulfilling work to date.
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Alternative PressFeb 15, 2012The result is near-perfection. [Mar 2012, p.97]
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Feb 21, 2012While continuing to deliver the intimate songs of hopeless love and regret for his longtime fans, he stills finds ways to surprise as he works with his magician-like collaborator.
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Feb 15, 2012One of Jurado's strongest albums in an encouraging line of strong albums.
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Feb 21, 2012These songs are probably Jurado's most ambitious portraits yet in terms of ideas and eclecticism.
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Feb 21, 2012Jurado still seems fully intent on liberating his music while evading expectation.
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Feb 29, 2012Maraqopa is melodious, sprawling in all the right ways, even a little ramshackle.
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May 2, 2012It's just wonderfully consistent, satisfyingly familiar.
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Feb 23, 2012Maraqopa spans genres, production techniques, and songwriting styles, all while retaining an overarching and unifying aesthetic: a cohesive haze of distance.
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Feb 21, 2012The risks that Damien Jurado and producer Richard Swift take on Maraqopa are small and subtle adjustments to those already made on Saint Bartlett, but they are small steps which reap exquisite rewards for the listener.
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Feb 16, 2012Jurado and Swift are onto something in the conjunction of rough-hewn folk and atmospheric electronics, and if anything, they have gotten better at integrating the two elements into a whole.
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MojoMar 23, 2012One of the most compelling [albums of his 15-year career]. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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Feb 22, 2012Maraqopa is, at times, a sumptuous sigh of a record, the sound of a man exploring a territory he's earned the right to claim as his own.
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Feb 29, 2012Despite minor quibbles what you have here is one hell of a late-night record, with plenty of wistful longing and just enough sunshine to keep you off the suicide hotline.
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Feb 21, 2012Maraqopa's experimentations aren't those of a young musician set loose in a studio full of new toys. Rather, with this newest release, Jurado demonstrates that, at this late date in his career, he may just be hitting his stride.
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Feb 21, 2012This album is more of a mood piece, its melodic rewards teased out over time and drenched in the type of steady rain that his home state is known for.
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Feb 15, 2012The more these songs scratch at that dried surface, the more fertile soil they reveal underneath.
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Q MagazineFeb 22, 2012Maraqopa sounds like the place he's been searching for all along. [Mar 2012, p.105]
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Feb 21, 2012Fittingly, Maraqopa finally puts Jurado in a position to shine.
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Feb 21, 2012Maraqopa is a shooting star, an album bursting with presence of mind, a testimony to emotional rebirth buoyed by recurring themes of freedom and transcendence.
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UncutFeb 15, 2012Here the pair [Richard Swift and Damien Jurado] resume roles for an equally enchanting follow-up. [Feb 2012, p.96]
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Under The RadarMar 21, 2012His tenth studio record retains the open-air dreaminess of Saint Bartlett, but it also keeps his sacred sense of songwriting, his careful guitar fixtures, and his understated demeanor. [Mar 2012, p.84]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 13
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Mixed: 0 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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Apr 26, 2012