“Like his fellow chameleon Richard Buckner, Damien Jurado moves between pop, rock, folk, lo-fi experiments, and Oldhamesque Americana. Despite those stylistic shifts, Jurado's dolorous tenor and elliptical narratives-- his songs resonate with the verbal economy and hallucinatory clarity of Raymond Carver's short stories-- have been constants. Also like Carver, Jurado has undertaken a dystopian surv”