haaaa
― odysseus (imago), Friday, 19 February 2016 08:47 (eight years ago) link
oh my god
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 19 February 2016 09:02 (eight years ago) link
perfect
Can't believe the SKM/Jesu album seems to be getting a decent reception, it's unlistenable, especially when you consider how amazing that collab could/would have been a decade ago.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 19 February 2016 09:06 (eight years ago) link
Unlistenable? Why?
FWIW, it’s my favorite Mark Kozelek album since April.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 19 February 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
lmao
― ciderpress, Friday, 19 February 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
"...plugged in"
― ciderpress, Friday, 19 February 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
This is awesome.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 19 February 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
all right i'll call this bluff
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
I'd be happy for anything to match Perils From the Sea but I don't see that happening with the vocal+lyrical track he's on of late
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
yeah Perils is definitely the example of his storytelling style done well
― ciderpress, Friday, 19 February 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
I really liked the Mark Kozelek & Desertshore record as well, I think there's some really affecting music on it, and it's balanced between the stream-of-consciousness confessional stuff and more traditionally structured songs/lyrics. Benji has its moments, but in retrospect feels like the first steps into self-parody.
― intheblanks, Friday, 19 February 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
Under the Canopy is my favorite Koz release since Admiral Fell Promises
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
This is fantastic. Laughing uncontrollably.
― doug watson, Friday, 19 February 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
Regarding Under the Canopy, quote from the SadReminders forum:
"And it's not just the lyrics, every guitar trope is being represented, yes, all 4 of them : classical tremolos, non-sequitur noodling, the one song with the bluesier down-tuned riff, and the song in travis picking based on one chord with a descending bass."
He really did nail the impression on all accounts. So much so that it's (almost) completely convincing. The same way an over the top parody of Weezer would probably sound exactly like Weezer. Some dense self-parody among certain artists.
― Evan, Friday, 19 February 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
well i made it through the first track, and honestly: broadrick is still great at what he does, which makes mark kinda easy to ignore, so i may end up liking this!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
re: jesu/skm, not under the canopy, kozelek's self-aware masterpiece
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
there is a lyric on here about watching bubble boy
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, I'm still not sure whether you are talking about the parody or not
― Evan, Friday, 19 February 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
neither do i
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
the album with jesu is really good. father's day and america's most wanted. he sounds good with a drum machine imo
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 20 February 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Have you heard Perils From the Sea?
― Evan, Saturday, 20 February 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/17/11254368/tony-visconti-sxsw-2016-keynote-david-bowie
Visconti's genuine love for his life's work ended up softening some of his criticism of the industry, which tended toward the traditional and the strident. His devotion to rock 'n' roll ideals is resolute, and he has no interest in contemporary pop music; the idea of him listening to any of SXSW's many electronic acts is borderline laughable. (One artist he likes: Sun Kil Moon, to whom he was introduced by Bowie.)
― Evan, Friday, 18 March 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Suspecting it's the pre-2010 era material?
― Evan, Friday, 18 March 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
oh god Koz is gonna write such an insufferable song about finding out Bowie liked him
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 18 March 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, seems inevitable.
― Evan, Friday, 18 March 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
I haven't really kept up with Kozelek over the past few years, what are his best post-April releases?
I have Perils of the Sea, but nothing else.
― funk79, Thursday, 2 June 2016 04:35 (eight years ago) link
Mark Kozelek & Desertshore is good
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 2 June 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link
Perils of the Sea, Mark Kozelek & Desertshore, and Benji have similar songwriting. So you'd like the other two if you like Perils. But Perils and Desertshore benefit from the collaborations where Benji benefits from being shorter.
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 2 June 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
actually Benji is super long. I just don't listen to the full thing anymore.
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 2 June 2016 05:17 (eight years ago) link
Post-April?
Admiral Fell Promises! It's a gorgeous record that people write off because it is just him and a nylon guitar. Most of the time it's my all time favorite release by him.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 June 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link
yeah admiral fell promises
desertshore and the sea are good. I do not like benji or universal whats it or the Jesu collab at all.
― akm, Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
admiral fell promises is the correct answer
― cookware regression (Dinsdale), Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
can only stream admiral fell promises on amazon prime, though
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
This works, too:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjRXUugfcLVDHf3d74b6t38GLaoJfpsy
― Evan, Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
It's so sophisticated and tasteful and mature. Directly afterwards he just totally started down the complete opposite direction (in steps) and way way down that road we find Universal Themes. It's a shame in my opinion. It's the complete opposite of AFP in almost every respect.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
I've just got to say, with the debut a new Jesu collab song that I'm not going to bother linking here, the deterioration of Kozelek's musical sensibility, taste, talent & execution (last 2 could be simply lack of real effort) since 2011 until now is by far the most disappointing thing to happen in music for me personally.
― Evan, Friday, 5 August 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Just noticed that there is a new album in February.
Anyone bother to listen to the album with Jesu, "Sings Favourites" or last year's Xmas album?
― djh, Friday, 18 November 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
the jesu album was alright
― akm, Saturday, 19 November 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
not enough for me to bother going and seeing them together though
Not my thing at all. I'm very tired of his current sloppy diary approach.
However, this is nice:
http://www.stereogum.com/1910524/holly-throsby-what-do-you-say-feat-mark-kozelek/premiere/
― Evan, Saturday, 19 November 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
Found myself playing a 34 minute live version of the Jesu/Sun Kil Moon track "Beautiful You" on Youtube the other night. Kozelek seemed graceless and uncool and less funny than he thinks he is and you'd only really want to listen to half of it ... which is basically a metaphor for where we're at with him these days, isn't it? And yet ... I was strangely impressed. He must know he looks awkward and uncool ... and at least he's not just replaying Red House Painters songs forever. The album itself is strangely frustrating. It could be great and interesting but it's partly cringe-worthy and needs editing - Kozelek needs a "critical friend". Have been playing "Perils from the Sea" tonight - one of my favourite albums *ever*.
― djh, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link
apparently this is old news but new to me: there's a double (!) album titled Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood out this month
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah and it fuckin sucks
http://www.sunkilmoon.com/commonaslight/
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
it fascinatingly sucks, so i'm still listening to it despite finding every song exhausting. highlights:
- at one point in "philadelphia cop" the music stops dead and kozelek starts a dialogue with himself in which he plays both a music journalist and someone who's really psyched about music journalists. it goes like this:
"oh my god you're a music journalist? do you get to go to south by southwest?""yeah pretty much every year, i mean the magazine i work for sends me out there""oh my god that sounds like such a blast""yeah it's a lot of fun, i mean it's super hard to get into the vip after show parties but i don't know maybe if you tag along i might be able get you in""oh my god you get to meet the bands?""yeah totally i'm friends with jim james, doctor john misty, bunch of people. hold on a second sufjan stevens is texting me right now""oh no way i love him. do you get to wear a laminate?""yeah i mean it makes me feel a little self conscious but you sort of have to in order to get into certain shows""oh my god that's so cool"
- there's a section of "lone star" that sounds like admiral fell promises, his last good album. then he undercuts it by saying "this part of the songs sounds like part of a cameron crowe film score." peak of the last three or so skm records lol. the rest of "lone star" is him raging against the transgender bathroom law which is well-intentioned but the language is pretty...imprecise
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
I kind of want to hear it badly now
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
props to whoever added the "Musical Comedy" tag to his rym page
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
Ok looool
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
brad you still should really try perils from the sea
yeah perils is his 3rd best post-RHP album after ghosts/april imo
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
I will admit to legit loling at the ending of "he's bad"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:19 (seven years ago) link