{"id":19481,"date":"2013-11-18T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T23:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=19481"},"modified":"2013-11-18T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T23:45:32","slug":"watch-damien-jurados-official-video-for-new-song-silver-timothy-off-impending-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-11\/watch-damien-jurados-official-video-for-new-song-silver-timothy-off-impending-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Damien Jurado&#8217;s Official Video for New Song &#8220;Silver Timothy&#8221; Off Impending Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-19484\" alt=\"DJ2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ2-650x365.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ2-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ2-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DJ2.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/damienjurado.com\/\"><strong>Damien Jurado<\/strong><\/a> (that would be us) will be excited to learn that Jurado&#8217;s new album, <em><strong>Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son<\/strong><\/em>, will be released in January on <strong>Secretly Canadian<\/strong>.\u00a0 Once again <strong>Jurado<\/strong> has teamed with producer <strong>Richard Swift.\u00a0 <\/strong>And now<strong> Jurado <\/strong>has dropped the official video for the first released song, <em><strong>Silver Timothy<\/strong><\/em>, which you can watch below.\u00a0 <strong>Jurado<\/strong> and <strong>Swift<\/strong> have not let us down before, and we expect the same from the new album.\u00a0 <em><strong>Silver Timothy<\/strong><\/em> is an audio-overload that smacks of various &#8217;60s movie soundtracks, but with Jurado&#8217;s signature vocals lighting the way.<\/p>\n<p>After the video, read a well-written piece by <strong>Father John Misty<\/strong> on <strong>Jurado\u2019s<\/strong> new album, amongst other things.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A4sQz6Y5g88\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Father John Misty writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Damien is out of his goddamn mind.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a recent development, but it\u2019s an important aspect of his work that often goes ignored. In place of this key element is the idea that his music is a sober and in-depth excavation of the American landscape and rural psyche. Well, folks, I\u2019m sorry, but it\u2019s not. In other words: there is no railway station east of Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Abandoned motels, barren highways, magazine killers, Chevrolets backing out of driveways in the middle of the night, wedding photos, intoxicated hands, bleary-eyed circus clowns, barstool salvation, yeah, yeah, yeah, we get it: \u201cAmerica.\u201d We\u2019d all like to live there, but we don\u2019t. No one does. We\u2019re stuck with Jamba Juice and the internet, occasionally a charming, aesthetically pleasing dilapidated monument of the pre-Air Conditioned Nightmare on the side of the road. For a minute we can marvel and say \u201cWow, there\u2019s nothing out here!\u201d Nothing except a huge fucking interstate freeway and a massive telecommunication network on which we can Instagram bucolic isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Out there is nowhere, but inside is endless.<\/p>\n<p>You know what else they have a lot of in \u201cAmerica\u201d? Religion. Don\u2019t leave out that old-time relijun or your souffle of polite, revisionist, fantasy America is going to fall flat at the foot of the Cross. When \u201cfolk\u201d comes up in their iTunes genre column, them lily-white champions of gravel-voiced, hard-won-wisdom-shilling, Millennial old-timin\u2019 expect some goddamn symbolic imagery, man! Not actual faith per se, I mean, c\u2019mon now, what are you: fucking insane?<\/p>\n<p>Damien Jurado is every character in every Damien Jurado song. He is the gun, the purple anteater, the paper wings, the avalanche, the air show disaster, Ohio, the ghost of his best friend\u2019s wife. It is a universe unto its own, with its own symbolism, creation myth, and liturgy. You might go as far as to call it a religion, and your religion is a character in his religion.<\/p>\n<p>Level with me. You\u2019re reading this because of Damien Jurado\u2019s new album, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (produced by Richard Swift). You are a progressive minded, left-leaning person who in parlor-style conversation regarding the globo-political ramifications of Sky Person relationships laughs knowingly so as not to be judgmental and very reasonably concedes \u201cWell, I don\u2019t believe He\u2019s some old man with a beard sitting up in the clouds\u201d at which point everyone agrees on [insert benign middle-ground] and moves on.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this: What if the only way to understand a religion is to create your own?<\/p>\n<p>Who is this Silver community? Where the hell are they in the Bible? Is this heresy? Agnostic reference? Isn\u2019t this sun business a little, I don\u2019t know, animistic? Pagan? Go ahead and answer that question for yourself. I\u2019ll give you a second.<\/p>\n<p>Do you understand the music any better?<\/p>\n<p>Faith is like theater: it isn\u2019t meant to be read, or analyzed it is meant to be performed and inhabited. Upon being asked if he believed in Gawd or not, Norman Mailer replied, \u201cSure, why don\u2019t you and make him better?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You know that adage we all use so we have something to say while we shrug our shoulders? \u201cPeople change\u201d? That one. Is that applicable to Jesus Christ? Maybe he\u2019s been on a personal journey of discovery since he ascended. He went through the 60\u2032s, 70\u2032s, he turned on, tuned out, got disillusioned. Why can\u2019t we talk about that Jesus? Does it have to be the old-timey one all the time? American folk Jesus, ugh. The one who\u2019s always winning Best Soundtrack Oscars for people. Rarely do stories of faith make us identify with Jesus. It\u2019s Abraham, Satan, Silver Timothy, Salome, Dr. J, Saul of Tarsus; divinely imperfect brothers and sisters who give Gawd something to do.<\/p>\n<p>Damien Jurado made up his own Jesus because a Damien Jurado album needs a beautiful Jesus. Some freaky space Jesus that I don\u2019t recognize. The name is the same, a lot of the imagery is the same, but he\u2019s reborn. Born again, I mean. Yeah, as if Jesus got born again. That\u2019s what this album sounds like.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is out of his goddamn mind, and I want to live in Damien\u2019s America.<\/p>\n<p>Sign me up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Father John Misty; 09-20-2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Damien Jurado (that would be us) will be excited to learn that Jurado&#8217;s new album, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, will be released in January on Secretly Canadian.\u00a0 Once again Jurado has teamed with producer Richard Swift.\u00a0 And now Jurado has dropped the official video for the first released song, Silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}