What's New, Tomboy?

Damien Jurado - What's New, Tomboy?
Critic Score
Based on 13 reviews
2020 Ratings: #488 / 871
User Score
Based on 78 ratings
2020 Rank: #797
Liked by 4 people
May 1, 2020 / Release Date
LP / Format
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
musicOMH

At times it may seem like he’s destined to remain on the periphery but What’s New, Tomboy? is one of his best albums and deserves better, confirming Damien Jurado to be an artist operating at the peak of his powers.

80
Exclaim!

One of Jurado's greatest strengths is his ability to express emotions, truths and transcendent moments through brief character studies.

80
Gigwise

What’s New, Tomboy? is Jurado’s fifteenth album and finds the prolific Seattle native unsurprisingly in fine voice and form - rarely does anything in his extensive catalogue fall short of expectations.

70
AllMusic

Taken together, What's New, Tomboy? is another moving collection of American snapshots from the troubadour, if likely less memorable than his higher-contrast outings.

66
Beats Per Minute

Taken as a whole, Tomboy is a success, but its short runtime and somewhat underdeveloped arrangements leave the impression that Jurado was more concerned with just getting this set of songs released, rather than making sure they expand his extensive catalog in a meaningful way.

60
The Telegraph

It is sensitive and intimate, his soft tone and tender picking evoking the dreamy melancholy of Nick Drake on the lovely Fool Maria, with touches of Harvest-era Neil Young on Francine.

60
The Arts Desk

What’s New, Tomboy? is as much about mood, about the easy musical sunlight emanating from its quiet enigma, and many will find much to explore in its unforced lack of adornment.

wanderingstar
40

1. First off...I haven't heard anything else from Jurado, or at least not in memory. I've heard of him from friends, a few of whom are avid fans. He has an enormous body of work; 18 albums in total. However, even my friends agree with me that this, his latest work, is not his best by any stretch.

2. "What's New, Tomboy?" is a painfully dull listen. The basic composition is, on paper, what you'd expect from an indie folk record: acoustic guitar strumming? Check. Mellow vocals, ... read more

LUI4OTY
61

This album have few songs, but it seems to have twenty.
It is not an incredible job, it can be classified as good, but also as boring.

Everything on this album is similar to everything, it seems to be a discarded project or a demo leaked on the internet

FrancescoFranze
70

i really like his voice. Good songs

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Added on: March 2, 2020