On his 13th solo studio album, “The Horizon Just Laughed” (Secretly Canadian), Damien Jurado takes a journey to the past to explore what gave him comfort in his tender time of need: familiar television characters and easy listening music. He does so with disarming sincerity and no small dose of charm, seamlessly blending lyrical storytelling and skillfully arranged indie-folk music.
Serving for the first time as his own producer, his crisp, clean arrangements, many of which feature brass and strings, emphasize his linear...