sun kil moon?

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.

that song is fucking horrible

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%2523FutureSunKilMoonSongs

the rap j mascis never dared

someone should run LFO's "Summergirls" through a fuzzbox and post it as a new sunkilmoon track

maybe jerk the pitch around a little on the vocals

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%2523FutureSunKilMoonSongs

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irl lols

Good god, "Perils from the Sea" is so beautiful I don't want to believe its by the trolling dickhead of late.

upcoming record w/ Justin Broadrick(!)

http://www.factmag.com/2015/04/27/jesu-and-sun-kil-moon-to-collaborate-on-new-album/

I'll fuckin listen to that

Wondering if he'll shake his recent McConaughey-croak-rap rut for this one.

yeahh boy does it make me wish they had this idea when his voice wasn't shot

I don't necessarily think his voice is shot, just that he is fixated on his drawl and isn't as interested in singing.

Hopefully the music will be loud enough to drown out the vocals.

Hopefully it'll be more like:

"Where are my vocals?"

"You said you wanted an instrumental remix."

hopefully it's just a bunch of boxing sound effects and distorted guitars

ok so if you hated Benji stay far, far away from Universal Themes, which does the same thing except with shitty arrangements, boring lyrics and endless songs (8 tracks in 70 minutes). yikes.

Album arrived this afternoon but haven't listen yet... the lyric sheet is, erm, dense ...

I thought Benji & Perils From The Sea were by far the best things Koz has released since April (and Among The Leaves the worst) so I'm hoping I won't find this terrible!

Among The Leaves had some great songs on it. Probably the weakest as an album though.

This album is interesting... It's like a music version of a mumblecore film. Some sections of lyrics are downright stupid, some moments are powerful, some moments feel like they're powerful but then you realize the lyrics aren't very poignant. Overall it's almost as if someone told him he isn't allowed to write a book so he found a loophole and made this album instead. Some of the shouty bits (esp on The Possum) sound very similar in cadence and tone to the ramblings of the angry drunk homeless dudes I see around town.

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

my wife pointed out to me that this stuff sounds like Counting Crows

and she's not wrong

this is some of the worst shit i've ever heard - and i wasn't a total benji hater tbh

There are some really pretty parts throughout the record, but even then the lyrics are usually just some unpoetic story about some insignificant thing he was doing that likely has no deeper meaning.

After a few plays through today, and I actually like it more than I expected. I find these journal-entry style lyrics easier to swallow when set to a decent tune (e.g. "Ben's My friend") though ...

By the closing verses of the last song it's almost like he's intentially trolling the fans he writes about in "Cry Me A River ..."

give it the fuck up already, koz.

He already has. Didn't you listen to the record?

The editor of Uncut Tweeted this after the Barbican show last night but from trying to look at other Tweets from the show I can't figure out what he's referring to. Was anyone there?

@JohnRMulvey 10h10 hours ago

God knows I've spent over 20 years obsessing over and defending Mark Kozelek's music but that was some vile misogynist bullshit tonight.

probably the music

benji was one of the worst things i've heard in my entire life btw

Benji was bad, and i probably won't give the new one much more than a cursory listen, but he remains one of the greatest songwriters of the last 25 years. it's not like he's been making crap music for very long either.

The editor of Uncut Tweeted this after the Barbican show last night but from trying to look at other Tweets from the show I can't figure out what he's referring to. Was anyone there?

https://twitter.com/laurasnapes/status/605689379017867265

Mulvey has written more about it here: http://www.uncut.co.uk/uncut-editors-diary/the-mark-kozelek-problem-68764

relevant paragraphs:

Two hours into the show, however, as Kozelek lurches back onstage for the encore, the theme takes a substantially nastier turn. First he names a British journalist who has, for reasons that are not entirely clear, annoyed him (full disclosure: that journalist is a friend and fellow Uncut writer. I would hope that my disgust at what Kozelek says is not materially affected by this, though he will doubtless beg to differ). Then he begins a spontaneous song about the writer – a woman – about how she “totally wants to fuck me” and how she should “get in line, bitch.”

So this, for me, is the tipping point: the exact moment when borderline dubious ragging becomes straight-up offensive misogyny. Kozelek would inevitably excuse it as his much-vaunted “great sense of humour” and indeed once he’s finished the next songs – “I Can’t Live Without My Mother’s Love” and “Caroline”, about probably the two most important women in his life, ironically enough – he returns to the subject. He calls the writer “nice”, “sweet”, “cute”, as if that would make things better, and claims he was “just kidding”. He then sings the song again.

embarrassing clown of a man. koz, take a holiday for god's sake

So now we’re on the cusp of yet another Kozelek firestorm

frankly I doubt this is going to happen

lol, as if you couldn't tell from listening to his recent music that he's a worthless cunt with nothing to say

red house wasteman

someone should throw him down colorful hill