having agreed to steer clear of posting about josh tillman for the month of january i don’t think i’m breaking any rules by posting another damien jurado track am i?

pah, well screw you because here is it.

if you check the band’s myspace blog you’ll already know this but…

“a new song has been posted on the page called “ferocious chorus”. the song was written and recorded for the “on my way to absence” album but was never used. so here for the first time is the out take with scratch vocals and all. this song will be up for one week only and replaced by another rare track.. i will most likely continue doing this for a while so check back often.”

as these rare tracks aren’t downloadable just listenable (and not that there’s anything wrong with that) to i figured you might want to hear the demo version of ferocious chorus (when it was called ‘black boys’) and keep it all for yourself…

this is a song i’ve loved long and well.

its appeared on mixtapes and playlists galore because there’s just something about the lyrics which send my whistful mind to places its nice to be in.

pictures of balmy summer nights with the french doors flung open, tinny stereos and the pre-itunes thrill of piles of records stacked up ready to play so we can dance round the garden, drinking vodka tonic in our barefeet….
damien jurado - ferocious chorus (demo)