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Reggae Film Star
Folk · 2022 · 12 tracks · 35m

Reggae Film Star

Damien Jurado

A cinematic collection of folk vignettes. Warm tape hiss and gentle strings frame stories of forgotten actors and fictional lives in a golden-hour haze.

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It's like a collection of beautiful, half-forgotten short stories told over a warm cup of coffee.

A gentle, cinematic nostalgia that feels like watching old home movies of people you've never met.

Reggae Film Star · vs · Damien Jurado
Golden Hour+4.0σ

Golden Hour saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 35m
01
Roger
3:21
02
Meeting Eddie Smith
3:38
03
Roger's Audition
1:59
04
What Happened to the Class of '65?
4:32
05
Location, Undisclosed 1980
2:19
06
Day of the Robot
2:23
07
Ready for My Close Up
4:01
08
Taped in Front of a Live Studio Audience
2:00
09
Whatever Happened to Paul Sand?
2:34
10
Lois Lambert
1:26
11
The Pain of No Return
1:34
12
Gork Meets the Desert Monster
5:17
Moments Worth Waiting For
the sudden bloom of strings on Meeting Eddie Smith that elevates the folk foundation into something cinematic
the way the percussion on Gork Meets the Desert Monster creates a slow, rhythmic trudge through a hazy landscape
the hushed, almost whispered delivery on Lois Lambert that feels like a secret shared across a kitchen table
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