sun kil moon?

is there a picture of him somewhere not looking sad?

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsK/45349-29304.jpg

just looks kinda 'what?' there

but he is playing a character. there are no non-sad photos while not in character.

kinda funny how the best verse of the centerpiece track of this album is about apologizing for bullying someone for no good reason

ha! I had forgotten about that. He's just creating future material...

New song: "John Paul Jones Sucks At Keyboard"

Kozelek has not heard the No Quarter overdubs on the deluxe reissue

xpost or how about "I Can't Fucking Believe Zep Licensed 'Rock And Roll' For A Toyota Commercial I Am Now Hate-Watching While Drunk"

Dude.. That was Cadillac...

The Possum. http://www.sunkilmoon.com/skmpossum/

thoughts?

This dude has crawled up inside his own ass at this point.

I think it's great. I wish I could navigate a midlife crisis by recording a song about a dead possum and going to a Godflesh show instead of other mistakes that I have made.

I do wish that he would go back to his natural beautiful pipes instead of trying to do this Modest Mouse guy howling thing. It's kind of like if John Lennon ended up recording every song for the rest of his life in Yer Blues mode. I guess it's almost like some kind of natural law regarding genius that if you're really talented you have to sabotage it in some way through a combination of overthinking and trying too hard to get away from what you do best. But I like the song a lot.

Yeah, I'm not into it myself. He should maybe write a book and get the stream of conscious story telling out that way since he doesn't seem very interesting in "crafting" songs as of late.

Musically for him this is something he can shit out with absolutely no effort. I just with he would put some energy back into that aspect of his songwriting.

Mm, yeah, Benji is great and all but I haven't been able to listen to it more than one and a half times. Aside from the harrowing subject matter, just from a basic aesthetic sense it's not exactly a song format that bears repeated listens. I feel like on Old Ramon/Ghosts of the Great Highway/April he managed to fit his storytelling/confessional urges in a format that was more conducive to hitting the repeat button

It's funny, I only just now realized this, but the first time I ever heard GoTGH was on Thanksgiving, my friend sent it to me for no reason at all, and I opened up the package on t-giving and finally listened to it, like maybe 30 seconds of each song before I had to rush out of the house and go do holiday stuff, and I knew instantly that it was an amazing record -- it was that good. My friend advertised it to me by saying that he got stricken with a stomach virus and he was bedridden for several days in a row and just kept listening to the record on repeat. I can totally understand that -- he did something on that record that he hasn't been able to do since ... tho I do love April as well.

Yeah, I agree Evan.

Right, Admiral Fell Promises edges out as the favorite for me, but I feel the same more or less. I definitely repeat listen to later material myself, but so much of the latest from him is carried almost entirely by poignancy in the narrative and his delivery.

https://twitter.com/pitchfork/status/538723495274758144
just look at the title of the b-side. DIS SHIT DONT STOP.

not that I'm mad at anyone for making fun of the hipsterati, even with them being the lowest possible hanging fruit there is, but given everything he's already done it's just pathetic, and also the people he hates are paying his bills and keeping him relevant, not the older indie dilletante TROO BELIEVERZ. so it's wild hypocritical altho I doubt he cares. standing by my logic that he's either relapsed to boozing OR, alternately, is having a real hard time being sober.

I knew instantly that it was an amazing record

same here. i checked it out of the library because of the cover art and as soon as i started playing it i was like "wow i uh made the right decision"

Did you rip it?

standing by my logic that he's either relapsed to boozing OR, alternately, is having a real hard time being sober.

maybe he's just sad about getting older, and fighting back against it in unseemly ways.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I mean, that's certainly what's happening to eminem right now so I would imagine it's a major part of it all regardless

just seems like a theme running thru a lot of his recent material. he's a prick, but can't deny i like the music (when he's not being lazy)

I have no idea which straw man "older indie dilletante TROO BELIEVERZ" is supposed to be?

yelling at the kids is not burning and raving at close of day

burning and raving at close of day is bewailing one's own mortality and how just as you're closing in on the wisdom and vision you sought, your time starts to run out, and your energy flags no matter how jealously you've guarded your powers, and besides the futility of the whole enterprise becomes more transparent and it doesn't seem fair because seen from the right angle it all seems so beautiful but the clarity of your aging eyes forces to you see both that beauty and its pointlessness

being mad at williamsburg is basically going gentle, because it's what all the olds do when they run out of the power to be properly mad

xpost i meant people who collect or collected red house painters b-sides and kozelek live bootlegs since the 90s/early aughts as opposed to people who saw the BNM of benji and began exploring his back catalog as a result. it wasn't intended to demonize either, light jab at best bc who cares how you find an artist, but you can take it that way if you like - I'm sure kozelek would

Leeds show seemingly cancelled tonight.

he's busy writing "I Think FKA Twigs' Face is Fucking Weird & I Need a Drink"

Still really digging Red House Painters "Void"

^^^^^^^^^ this is the greatest song.

Was listening to both the album version and the live version linked above a while ago.

Is it the live version from Little Drummer Boy Live? With that version a great song became an incredible song.

Actually all of the Old Ramon tracks that he does on that live album become twice as gorgeous with his approach there.

It's live at Hultsfred.

Ok just looked it up. That version is incredible!

Also, here's Cruiser from the album I was thinking of- unfortunately nobody uploaded Void to youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhfspmqOe64

This could be in... the top 3(?) of favorite Kozelek songs for me, and it's from an album overlooked by most people. Stylistically it's 90% likely a carry-over from his Admiral Fell Promises songwriting period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pLIC7fK778

this is indeed pretty great, i didn't know it yet, thanks for the hint.

You're very welcome.

It has the closest structure & style to Alesund but its coda has much more emotional pull. Notably helped by the extremely subtle vocal harmonies and banjo accompaniment within it.

Kozelek: "Steve Shelley was telling me the other night, ’This next one needs to be really good,’ and my hope is that it will be."

Tracklist:

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”

’This next one needs to be really good’

08 “This Is My First Day And I’m Indian And I Work At A Gas Station”

:/

well that's what you call aggressively steering into the skid

I was really hoping "The Possum" was the last of him getting this approach out of his system. I definitely didn't expect the B side of that single “Cry Me A River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues” to have a chance of being included.

I mean, I was just listening to April and it's so well crafted and well performed and moving. I was really hoping he'd return somewhat to that level of care and nuance. Yet these new song titles aren't comforting.

It's a bit odd opening Kozelek threads with a slight dread that he has said/done something else stupid.

I think we're all getting used to that feeling.

don't know about this new album, but I'm finally getting into the desertshore stuff

I say this as a relative Kozelek apologist: this is hideous

http://pitchfork.com/news/58752-sun-kil-moon-goes-electric-on-alispinks-2/

sounds like... sun kil moon. the breakdown is pretty cool. don't forget how insanely prolific he is these days.

I don't hate this

His vocal style lately, this drawl/talk/croak thing, makes it sound to me like he's trying to do an impression of some cliche cool guy inflection. Like he's mumbling the whole song from the back of a parked motorcycle as he leans on his knee and stares off into the horizon. Maybe he thinks he's Matthew McConaughey now cause of True Detective.