Maraqopa

Maraqopa is the tenth studio album by American rock musician Damien Jurado, produced by Richard Swift. It was released on February 21, 2012, on Secretly Canadian.^[1]

Maraqopa
Studio album by Damien Jurado
Released	February 21, 2012 (2012-02-21)
Genre	Folk rock, indie folk
Length	36:12
Label	Secretly Canadian
Producer	Richard Swift
Damien Jurado chronology
Saint Bartlett (2010) Maraqopa (2012) Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (2014)

The story follows a man who disappears from society. He takes nothing with him except a couple hundred dollars and stumbles upon a mysterious place called Maraqopa. "He's discovering a lot of interesting things about who he is," Jurado explains. "He ends up leaving Maraqopa after a while, and then he gets into a car accident."^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nothing Is the News"	5:34
2.	"Life Away from the Garden"	2:51
3.	"Maraqopa"	3:41
4.	"This Time Next Year"	3:59
5.	"Reel to Reel"	4:31
6.	"Working Titles"	3:44
7.	"Everyone a Star"	4:21
8.	"So On, Nevada"	2:31
9.	"Museum of Flight"	2:49
10.	"Mountains Still Asleep"	2:18

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Alternative Press	[5]
The A.V. Club	A−[6]
Consequence of Sound	[7]
Mojo	[8]
musicOMH	[9]
Paste	8.0/10[10]
Pitchfork	7.6/10[11]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[12]
Uncut	8/10[13]