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The Horizon Just Laughed
Folk · 2018 · 11 tracks

The Horizon Just Laughed

Damien Jurado

A warm, tape-saturated travelogue of the mind. Intimate acoustic sketches and literary vignettes wrapped in the soft hiss of a Pacific Northwest morning.

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It's like a collection of short stories you can listen to while watching the rain.

A gentle, literary exploration of memory and place that feels like a warm blanket on a cold day.

The Horizon Just Laughed · vs · Damien Jurado
Rainy Day+1.0σ

Rainy Day saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
Allocate
4:43
02
Dear Thomas Wolfe
3:18
03
Percy Faith
2:57
04
Over Rainbows and Rainier
4:10
05
The Last Great Washington State
6:20
06
Cindy Lee
0:54
07
1973
2:52
08
Marvin Kaplan
3:04
09
Lou-Jean
3:49
10
Florence-Jean
2:26
11
Random Fearless
2:45
Moments Worth Waiting For
The hypnotic repetition of the word 'Allocate' as the arrangement slowly swells with warm, rounded bass notes.
The sprawling six-minute narrative of 'The Last Great Washington State' where the instrumentation feels like a slow-motion panoramic sweep.
The sudden, haunting brevity of 'Cindy Lee' where the vocal feels like a transmission from a distant, stormy radio station.
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