sun kil moon?

'Make Like Paper' is fucking awesome, and I would listen to 90s kozelek's neil young impression all night long with a smile

agreed. i got to see him do a condensed, acoustic version of River, but it just wasn't the same without the Neil Young-isms.

So, logically, out of nowhere, we're getting a Mark Kozelek solo Christmas carol album. Enjoy?

http://caldoverderecords.com/christmas/mkscc2014.html

Kozelek has been particularly prolific these last few years so more material isn't surprising.

Personally I'm quite puzzled by pitchfork's stanning for Benji. Much more into the Koz with gravitas than the borderline rapping, teetering b/w sad and jokey Koz of Among The Leaves and beyond.

The Christmas carols album was actually announced about a year ago.

I think the pitchfork review is mostly based on their tendency to overestimate albums that are made by compelling characters. They seem to emphasize artists that would have compelling backstories over artists with without that attribute.

Think about how they treat very solid albums by not so distinct artists vs solid albums by very distinct artists.

Kozelek shifted from a incredible musician, singer and poet into a sloppier musician with an unedited, heart-wrenching and uncensored series of stories to tell and that's when pitchfork perked up.

lol revisiting pitchfork scores and april got an 8.3. pretty sure pfork were woke to kozelek

Right, they considered it solid but they didn't make a big fuss- no BNM etc.

Some albums just seem to come at the right moment. Never been able to figure out whether that was the result of zeitgeist or just a good PR team.

my thing is i think that a lot of early rhp lyrics had a stream of consciousness quality that's entirely distinct from benji and was way more rich than shit hanging on walls plus someone died man

which wouldn't be necessarily measurable by pfork scores. april being an 8.3/non-bnm is kinda right imo, it's a more discursive ghosts of the great highway and not as many people would be interested in that than, say, old white guy indexes memory, inevitably stumbles upon profound shit

mostly i'm thinking of "strawberry hill"

Honestly what's kind of funny about April though is that it may be (now after Benji, perhaps) the most heard album by SKM, and largely by demographics you wouldn't expect to care... all due to Heron Blue being used in that Gears of War trailer/commercial.

i can dig the destroyer-style arrangement, but i'm not into the rapping that he's doing or whatever. maybe i'm boring but i prefer serious koz to the post-admiral fell promises goofy koz.

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lol, turns out I made basically the same post in January

He was pretty deadpan hilarious at the show I saw a couple weeks ago. Also poked fun at the BNM designation.

i hope neil young will remember: a southern man don't need him around, anyhow

http://sunkilmoon.com/mkwod/index.html

"the whitest band I've ever heard" - says the guy who makes the whitest music I've ever heard. What a stupid ass-clown. "bridge and tunnel people" - gee, sorry we can't all afford to live in the city itself, you elitist fuck-face.

song is pretty lol

It’s way funnier than a song called "War on Drugs Should Suck My Cock" should be.

friends with the writer he called a "spoiled bitch rich kid blogger brat" :[

the part about War on Drugs is sorta funny I guess

I wouldn't mind being called names in a song if it meant Mark Kozelek. If Matt P is a singer that's probably the closest I'll get.

I do agree that War on Drugs edges ahead of Sun Kil Moon as far as whiteness goes. And he never said he wasn't a close second so there's that.

I don't know if anyone would have predicted that the guy singing Alesund in 2010 conjuring Segovia in the process would in 2014 be channeling Art Alexakis in some bitter asshole joke-song about some buzzband.

friends with the writer he called a "spoiled bitch rich kid blogger brat"

did not enjoy that line much at all, and though most of the rest of it was pretty funny, i really wish he would concentrate on doing something more worthwhile

i can't take it as anything other than a sendup of his current bitter crank persona

That line reads as sexist and ugly to me

yeah, that is spiteful however you slice it

could imagine warren drugs being able to laugh at the stuff aimed at him though

looking forward to his new album, Finally Getting Publicity

Warren Druggs vs. Sunkle Moone

that sounds like a dope outlaw country record

Some backstory: here and here (scroll down).

"spoiled bitch rich kid blogger brat"

fuck that

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10338687_10203176249983475_5380334911075845925_n.jpg?oh=4cbc450febcb8b098b9b9a82e4d837c6&oe=54BA6B0E&__gda__=1422514200_6e65ee504e398f9d5bdb6afcc8562f3c

this is the best song koz has done in years

This is completely horrible and lazy and not funny, no idea how anyone made it all the way through it

this is the best song koz has done in years

Yup, and therein lies the tragedy.

Although I will give Koz points for referring to it as the Ottawa Bleedfest. Thanks to the same management, we now have this flawed template for two of our biggest music festivals.

he's on some shia labeouf shit lately, nagl

Had he been to rehab before?

when he was 14

kinda feels like this is leading up to heading back there

I'm not sure any of this is drug/alcohol related. He's been saying this kind of shit at gigs for years. It's just now he's got Pitchfork etc. covering his every move.

^

Yeah honestly I can't tell if this is a sign of darker things or just a high-profile bored trolling

I'm not sure any of this is drug/alcohol related. He's been saying this kind of shit at gigs for years. It's just now he's got Pitchfork etc. covering his every move.

decades

i mean jeers to calling a woman a bad word, but cheers to an old crank making the internet's beef obsession work for him

don't really understand people saying this is far and away his best or worst song of late - pretty guitars with stream-of-conscious hyper-personal lyrics, seems fairly par for course

seems like the dude just comes up with a lick and then croons whatever's on his mind over it, be it they might be giants lyrics or his shopping list

i mean jeers to calling a woman a bad word, but cheers to an old crank making the internet's beef obsession work for him

otm

I think the anti-fan commentary is fascinating. When I was a teenager I wrote Mark a few letters, he always replied. In fact, I, for whatever reason, stopped our correspondence. I still order from Caldo Verde and the notes and knick knacks he includes strike me as sincere and personal gesture of gratitude.

He’s very much a pre-Internet performer. I think closeness for fans today is very different than it was when Red House Painters emerged. It’s far more personal for him. He’ll never retweet or reblog and I think that’s fine.

oh god the pitchfork article on this. STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO THE TROLL PEOPLE.

dunno, personally i would rather someone call out high-profile macho bullshit as such than just report it tmz-style

kinda hard not to pay attention to a troll who's this dedicated to not shutting the f--- up. yes he seems to have always been like this, and yes people are paying more attention now b/c outlets beyond the hipsterverse have discovered benji, and editors know that this crap gets clicks. but if it doesn't exist with this frequency no one writes on it. and for the record, if it's dumb trolly behavior, so what if it's only being covered with such frequency now? that doesn't make it less annoying, especially for someone who appreciates how good his music is independent of all this. if it didn't involve calling someone a stupid bitch and using homophobic language, it'd just be mildly pathetic. but it does do those things.

as for the p4k pitch post, no mark kozelek might not have active fantasies about forcing buzz bands to fellate him and is definitely trolling but his language does tie into the systemic things that meredith graves is discussing.

if it didn't involve calling someone a stupid bitch and using homophobic language, it'd just be mildly pathetic. but it does do those things.

How many of Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks of 2015 will include a lyric calling someone “a stupid bitch” and homophobic language?