Saint Bartlett [Digipak]

Rating

Album: Saint Bartlett [Digipak]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Cloudy Shoes	More Info...	0:04
2)	Arkansas	More Info...	0:03
3)	Rachel & Cali	More Info...	0:03
4)	Throwing Your Voice	More Info...	0:03
5)	Wallingford	More Info...	0:02
6)	Pear	More Info...	0:02
7)	Kansas City	More Info...	0:04
8)	Harborview	More Info...	0:03
9)	Kalama	More Info...	0:02
10)	The Falling Snow	More Info...	0:04
11)	Beacon Hill	More Info...	0:03
12)	With Lightning in Your Hands	More Info...	0:02

Album: Saint Bartlett [Digipak]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Cloudy Shoes	More Info...	0:04
2)	Arkansas	More Info...	0:03
3)	Rachel & Cali	More Info...	0:03
4)	Throwing Your Voice	More Info...	0:03
5)	Wallingford	More Info...	0:02
6)	Pear	More Info...	0:02
7)	Kansas City	More Info...	0:04
8)	Harborview	More Info...	0:03
9)	Kalama	More Info...	0:02
10)	The Falling Snow	More Info...	0:04
11)	Beacon Hill	More Info...	0:03
12)	With Lightning in Your Hands	More Info...	0:02

Performer Notes

Recorded over the course of a week with only the help of producer/musician Richard Swift, Damien Jurado's 2010 album finds the singer/songwriter aiming all the more clearly for the stately, somewhere between the Band at its most formal and the later Flaming Lips at their most controlled. Starting with the keyboards and handclaps of "Cloudy Shoes," Saint Bartlett plays with any number of elements of rock and pop history -- not for nothing does a classic Phil Spector drumbeat appear on "Arkansas" -- but ultimately there's a sense of solitude in vast spaces (and especially vast American spaces) that dominates. At its most gently beatific, on numbers like the serene guitar-and-bells blend of "Rachel & Cali" and the steady piano-and-keyboard blend of "The Falling Snow," it seems like all will be well, even though the songs suggest darker shades in the music alone. Lyrically, Jurado's portraits of questioning souls and contemplation perhaps never get so intense as with the combination of yearning singing, acoustic guitar, and distant sonic sludge and disturbance on "Kansas City" (though "Kalama," in its tale of a dying soul speaking to his mother wondering about what happens next, comes close). Blasts of feedback and other dissonant elements crop up at points, but otherwise this is an album of focused calm in both singing and playing, a vision of concern and empathy amid unease. ~ Ned Raggett

Professional Reviews

Pitchfork (Website) - "[A] striking departure....With meditations on 1950s girl-group balladry, thorny Neil Young-esque guitar rock, and cavernous chamber-pop."

Uncut (magazine) (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Jurado is on more well-trampled territory on 'Pear' and 'With Lightning In Your Hands,' all acoustic guitars, Bonnie Billy-like whispers and soft incantations."

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