god do you look pollable in the dark: red house painters / sun kil moon / mark kozelek albums poll

and this is the tracklist for the new one, out in june

01 The Possum
02 Birds of Flims
03 With a Sort of Grace I Walked to the Bathroom to Cry
04 Garden of Lavender
05 Cry Me a River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues
06 Ali/Spinks 2
07 Little Rascals
08 This Is My First Day and I'm Indian and I Work at a Gas Station

Can't imagine the critical resurgence will keep up if "The Possum" is any indication.

08 This Is My First Day and I'm Indian and I Work at a Gas Station

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I hope to hell that's an instrumental. (Incidentally, releasing a multitracked instrumental guitar album is probably the best thing Koz could do right now.)

Cry Me a River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues

I'm sure there's gonna be some trenchant cultural commentary in that one...

Fingers crossed for another cringeworthy account of his sex life.

"Garden of Lavender" obviously

song titles suggest more of that whole "stream-of-consciousness narrative" thing, but we shall see.

Visiting San Francisco earlier this week sent me back to the pre-stream-of-conciousness Kozelek albums. Such a shame there's so many people who haven't heard these album and won't even give them a chance. There's some deeply beautiful tunes on them.

Anyway, had the Mark Kozelek & Desertshore album been included here, I'd expect it'd have done well. And "Randy Quaid", on the first Desertshore album, really hooked me today. Lovely vocal over all that jangly swirl.

Oh, Ocean Beach wasn't as good as I remembered it, but Tiny Cities is still great.

I revisited Benji recently and enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, though one replay was enough to tide me over for a while. I think it’s the kind of album I should revisit maybe once a year.

April is my favorite if i'm being honest with myself. ghosts and perils from the sea are close runners up though

Been revisiting Mark's work and am now a convert to the brilliance of "Perils". As others have said, other albums are very nice but the emotional state required to listen thankfully doesn't come around very often.

Admiral Fell Promises all the way, though Ghosts scratches a different itch and becomes my favorite half of the time.

Been revisiting The Finally LP cover album most recently and it's really beautiful as well.

Album poll is a bit unsatisfying. I like a lot of the Red House Painters'stuff, but think he peaked with the early Sun Kil Moon stuff - April, Ghosts, and Admiral Fell Promises are three of his my favourites, and Tiny Cities is very enjoyable.

Is Kozelek ever going to get the full ILM tracks and albums poll treatment?

I probably totally overlooked this thread in 2012.

Would have been helpful if he retired the Sun Kil Moon moniker around 2013-14 and launched his unhinged blog raps project under a new name. It's exhausting to add a disclaimer every time I need to identify his music as some of my favorites.