Some American

damien jurado / peter wolf crier

Damien Jurado, fresh off his Hoquiam project with Jurado hermano, Drake, has his own album coming out this May - Saint Bartlett - and his label Secret Canadian has just made available a preview from said release, the song “Arkansas”. A new, more “grandiose” sound is thanks to Richard Swift’s throwback production, emphasized on this track by tinkling ivories straight from the early 1960s. The song has a stately feel, accompanying Jurado’s lyrics of love lost, swaying gently between sad and sweet.

Damien Jurado - “Arkansas”

Also out now is a single from Peter Wolf Crier, newly-added to the Jagjaguwar stable. Home-recorded and produced by Minneapolis denizens Peter Pisano (songwriter, guitar) and Brian Moen (drums, production), Inter-Be will be released this May, and sounds like it could be a charmer based on the evidence of this single, “Crutch & Cane”. Though it begins as if Bon Iver had recorded “Flume” in June on a southern porch, in the throes of the early stages of romantic desire, not the shittier tail end, jaunty guitar lines and and tumbling drum fills pair with Pisano’s snapshots of the earlier, more pleasing stages of love, not the shittier tail end that Mr. Vernon came to know so well.

Peter Wolf Crier - “Crutch & Cane”

Damien Jurado’s Saint Bartlett and Peter Wolf Crier’s Inter-Be are both out on May 25th.