Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (Deluxe Edition)

by Damien Jurado

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soggy_turnips some nice songs about interesting people.

Charlie Moonbeam On tour with my funk band back in 2014, putting in a 13 hour shift at the wheel, and was looking for something by an artist I had never checked out before.

I put on Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son and, to my supreme delight, I found myself immersed in the world of the Silver Community.

Each song a portrait, colored brilliantly by Richard Swift's production, and told in the soft and smoky tones of Damien Jurado's unique voice.

And thus began my love affair with this artist and his work Favorite track: Silver Timothy.

hailhumanists Time reveals substance over the ephemeral and here it reveals a work by a master artist hitting his aesthetic stride. Jurado's second album in his trilogy, a paradoxical "tale of an individual who has had to disappear from society in order to discover some universal truths" is full of quirky imagery, nuanced hooks and poignant lyricism. While the neo-evangelical Jericho Road may not appeal to all, the album on the whole is charming.
Favorite Tracks: Metallic Cloud, Silver Malcolm Favorite track: Silver Donna.

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1.	Magic Number 03:08	buy track
2.	Silver Timothy 03:16	buy track
3.	Return To Maraqopa 02:48	buy track
4.	Metallic Cloud 03:25	buy track
5.	Jericho Road 03:40	buy track
6.	Silver Donna 06:06	buy track
7.	Silver Malcolm 03:21	buy track
8.	Silver Katherine 03:25	buy track
9.	Silver Joy 03:07	buy track
10.	Suns In Our Mind 02:10	buy track
11.	Plains To Crash (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 03:09	buy track
12.	Return To Maraqopa (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 02:55	buy track
13.	Silver Timothy (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 02:56	buy track
14.	Metallic Cloud (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 03:21	buy track
15.	Silver Malcolm (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 03:20	buy track
16.	All For You (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 02:21	buy track
17.	Jericho Road (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 04:35	buy track
18.	Silver Katherine (feat. Sisters of the Eternal Son) [Bonus Track] 03:21	buy track

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Damien is out of his goddamn mind.

This isn’t a recent development, but it’s 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’m sorry, but it’s not.

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’s wife. It is a universe unto its own, with it’s 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.

Level with me. You're reading this because of Damien Jurado’s 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 “Well, I don’t believe He’s some old man with a beard sitting up in the clouds” at which point everyone agrees on [insert benign middle-ground] and moves on.

Consider this: What if the only way to understand a religion is to create your own?

Who is this Silver community? Where the hell are they in the Bible? Is this heresy? Agnostic reference? Isn’t this sun business a little, I don’t know, animistic? Pagan? Go ahead and answer that question for yourself. I’ll give you a second.

Do you understand the music any better?

You know that adage we all use so we have something to say while we shrug our shoulders? “People change”? That one. Is that applicable to Jesus Christ? Maybe he’s been on a personal journey of discovery since he ascended. He went through the 60’s, 70’s, he turned on, tuned out, got disillusioned. Why can’t we talk about that Jesus? Does it have to be the old-timey one all the time? American folk Jesus, ugh. The one who’s always winning Best Soundtrack Oscars for people. Rarely do stories of faith make us identify with Jesus. It’s Abraham, Satan, Silver Timothy, Salome, Dr. J, Saul of Tarsus; divinely imperfect brothers and sisters who give Gawd something to do.

Damien Jurado made up his own Jesus because a Damien Jurado album needs a beautiful Jesus. Some freaky space Jesus that I don’t recognize. The name is the same, a lot of the imagery is the same, but he’s reborn. Born again, I mean. Yeah, as if Jesus got born again. That’s what this album sounds like.

Jesus is out of his goddamn mind and I want to live in Damien’s America.

Sign me up.

--- Father John Misty; 09-20-2013

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released January 21, 2014

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