Love "1936", in part because I did the same thing as a six year old, stealing dimes out of a collection my dad had. Nothing as precious as the song's dime, but same theft, and feelings of guilt and regret. "Gustavo" and "Caroline", great tracks, too. Also agree with liking it more than the last few SKM albums.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 15 July 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
1936 crept up on me. Beautiful stuff. Seemed to get luke warm reviews, this.
― djh, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
Bubble to me is incredible - those building arpeggios
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
posted this before, but here are my thoughts on the wonderful Bridge album: http://walkingthelongmileshome.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/and-it-feels-so-wonderful-to-swim-in-our-fear-red-house-painters-bridge-1993-track-by-track/
i am really quite obsessed with By the Time that I Awoke from the latest one.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
New song: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/a-love-song-to-mom-from-me-and-bonnie-prince-billy/?_r=1
― djh, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 06:48 (ten years ago) link
I loved that (article & song). I wish I got to read something like that about every one of his songs and all the rest of my favorite music.
― Evan, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Nice song (although it's always a bit creepy when people contrast their lovers and their mothers).
― djh, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
He's a funny bugger, isn't he?
Just received "Mark Kozelek & Desertshore" and the "Malmo" live CD. Such an incongruity between him being an arse to the crowd in the latter and the compassion in "Brothers" from the former.
― djh, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
pfork review of the desertshore record tried to recast kozelek's recent stream-of-consciousness lyrical moves as a general characteristic of his total body of work which made me :\
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
guy has always had a weird out-of-nowhere diaristic detail once in a while in his lyrics (i'm thinking maybe the judas priest reference in "glenn tipton" and "my erotic brown eyed toy") but now that shit dominates his work and i find it excruciating
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Sun Kil MoonRelease Date: January 14, 2014(Caldo Verde Records) Recorded between March and August 2013, Mark Kozelek sings about his childhood yearsand his life today. Mark is joined by guest musicians Steve Shelley, Jen Wood, Will Oldham and Owen Ashworth. Album title and song titles to be announced in December.
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
He's prolific, isn't he?
Listening to the Desertshore album, there were times when I wanted him to edit out some of the detail about touring/travel.
― djh, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Being a superfan of this guy is stressful because if you don't act immediately you miss out on owning all of the limited releases he churns out. Bonus tracks on limited versions, exclusive live bonus discs, even regular releases that quickly go out of print...
― Evan, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
i long ago gave up on doing that. but I do like this desertshore record, way more than the album leaf one.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Well it's not even about completeness for the sake of collecting its just I'd love to own all these alt versions of my favorite songs. Desertshore project is great, yeah.
― Evan, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Down Colorful Hill. Every September.
― Mule, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
does he really hate nels cline?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
New Sun Kil Moon is called "Benji"
http://www.caldoverderecords.com/images/Benji.jpg
Release date: February 4, 2014
― Evan, Thursday, 26 September 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
So, can Kozelek "play like Fripp or Johnny Marr/And [I can] play circles 'round Jay Farrar"?
― djh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
"Perils from the Sea" probably still my favourite album from this year.
― djh, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
lately, my favorite from the "kozelek cannon" is this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaN5DuFA82o
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 14 November 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Love this, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JamTWxG4pM
― djh, Friday, 15 November 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
That song is crushing. I've been listening to that album non-stop for months now.
― Evan, Saturday, 16 November 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
Fairly certain that "Perils" is my album of the year and "Gustavo" my favourite track.
― djh, Friday, 22 November 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
perils is crushing me right now
― ciderpress, Sunday, 1 December 2013 05:51 (ten years ago) link
Hmm ...
Sings Christmas CarolsRelease Date: November 10, 2014(Caldo Verde Records)
All songs performed by Mark Kozelek November/Decemeber 2013in San Francisco.
TRACK LIST:Christmas Time Is HereDo You Hear What I Hear2,000 MilesO Come All Ye Faithful (Listen)O Christmas TreeAway In A MangerSilent NightHark The Herald Angels SingWhat Child Is ThisI Believe In Father ChristmasGod Rest Ye Merry GentlemenO Little Town Of BethlehemThe First NoelThe Christmas Song
― djh, Monday, 30 December 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Don't really know this dude's stuff very well but I find his persona pretty hilarious. Yes, he's a singer-songwriter who writes pretty sensitive songs but also he's MACHO because he swears at audiences and sings about fucking young women. I saw him last year in a normal club with a quiet reverential audience and as soon as he got on stage he started complaining about how it was too cold on stage and made someone from the club go to the dressing room and get his jacket while he sat on stage and complained.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
He's got a great voice though.
You mean at Music Hall of Williamsburg? He did this there.
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
he seems like a real tool bag
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
No this was at Lincoln Hall in Chicago.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Someone pin a reminder to his shirt to bring his jacket on stage with him.
he certainly seems like a prickly pear and i'm not gonna say glib shit like "#teamkozelek" because for all i know he could be a truly monstrous person ("where there's smoke, there's fire" etc) but i love that one of these indie cult dudes being praised for all the heart-on-sleeve shit he did in the 90s had a moment where they said "fuck it, you want heart on sleeve shit? Here ya go" and started spewing cranky road tales
― da croupier, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
djhPosted: November 22, 2013 at 5:20:15 PMFairly certain that "Perils" is my album of the year and "Gustavo" my favourite track.
gustavo is really great, having said that I was just listening to an album in my recently added folder and then the new sun kil moon came on and he is so depressed and talking abt someone dying and im all oh gosh man
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
the degree of attention his rudeness is getting reminds me of the last panel of this: http://www.pipeline.com/~biv/FallNet/comix/gpt1.html
― da croupier, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure where the comedy ends and the rudeness begins ... which is good, I suppose.
― djh, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
relevant:
The Fake Mark Kozelek (Sun Kill Moon, Red House Painters, Etc.) Tour Story Thread
― Heez, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
LOL
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Koz enters his Eminem phase
http://www.sunkilmoon.com/hesbad/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 24 July 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
dnftt
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 24 July 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Anyone care to suggest a post-Perils CDR80?
― djh, Monday, 1 April 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
*post* Perils? heavens no.
― Simon H., Monday, 1 April 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
A mini-CD?
― djh, Monday, 1 April 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
I've a vague idea that the Kozelek/Album Leaf collaboration is "definitely a one-off" but what's the story there?
― djh, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
Okay but slightly unnecessary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG5imSIR8B0
Album in October:
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/178497-mark-kozelek-petra-haden-joey-always-smiled
― djh, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
ghosts of the great highway and april are necessary imo
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
And Admiral Fell Promises
― Evan, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
and Perils!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
"Perils" is incredible.
― djh, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link