Damien Jurado - The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (New Vinyl LP)

Vinyl LP pressing. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Damien Jurado gathers up ten stories of people determined not to be broken by their dire circumstances. Dire circumstances have long been fixtures of Jurado's songs, which are filled with ghosts, killers, cruel lovers, and the occasional UFO cult or false messiah. But here, the scenes are earthy, drawn from ordinary but no less immense calamities: hurricanes moving toward town, strained connections, amnesiacs in the front yard. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, he offers up his own Twilight Zone, 'a middle ground between light and shadow 'a dimension of imagination, of half-remembered dreams and people reaching out to cross into that liminal space between heartbreak and wholeness. Jurado knows the territory well. He knows the secret words to whisper at the right time. Press your eye to the speaker, tune your ear to the horizon.

 Tracklist

A1     Helena     
A2     Tom     
A3     Dawn Pretend     
A4     Song For Langston Birch     
A5     Minnesota     
B1     Johnny Caravella     
B2     Joan     
B3     Hiding Ghosts     
B4     Jennifer     
B5     Male Customer #1