he's busy writing "I Think FKA Twigs' Face is Fucking Weird & I Need a Drink"
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Still really digging Red House Painters "Void"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 1 January 2015 04:30 (nine years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^ this is the greatest song.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 1 January 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link
Was listening to both the album version and the live version linked above a while ago.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Is it the live version from Little Drummer Boy Live? With that version a great song became an incredible song.
― Evan, Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Actually all of the Old Ramon tracks that he does on that live album become twice as gorgeous with his approach there.
― Evan, Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
It's live at Hultsfred.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
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
― Evan, Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
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
― Evan, Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
this is indeed pretty great, i didn't know it yet, thanks for the hint.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 15 January 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Thursday, 15 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
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”
― Evan, Thursday, 19 February 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
’This next one needs to be really good’
:/
― Evan, Thursday, 19 February 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
well that's what you call aggressively steering into the skid
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 19 February 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Thursday, 19 February 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
It's a bit odd opening Kozelek threads with a slight dread that he has said/done something else stupid.
― djh, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I think we're all getting used to that feeling.
― doug watson, Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
don't know about this new album, but I'm finally getting into the desertshore stuff
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I say this as a relative Kozelek apologist: this is hideous
http://pitchfork.com/news/58752-sun-kil-moon-goes-electric-on-alispinks-2/
― Simon H., Friday, 6 March 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
sounds like... sun kil moon. the breakdown is pretty cool. don't forget how insanely prolific he is these days.
― mushaboom kids (rip van wanko), Friday, 6 March 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
I don't hate this
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 7 March 2015 09:52 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Sunday, 8 March 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
that song is fucking horrible
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%2523FutureSunKilMoonSongs
― Evan, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
the rap j mascis never dared
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
someone should run LFO's "Summergirls" through a fuzzbox and post it as a new sunkilmoon track
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
maybe jerk the pitch around a little on the vocals
― da croupier, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
― Evan, Monday, March 9, 2015 10:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
irl lols
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 9 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Good god, "Perils from the Sea" is so beautiful I don't want to believe its by the trolling dickhead of late.
― djh, Friday, 27 March 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
upcoming record w/ Justin Broadrick(!)
http://www.factmag.com/2015/04/27/jesu-and-sun-kil-moon-to-collaborate-on-new-album/
― yeovil knievel (NickB), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:25 (nine years ago) link
I'll fuckin listen to that
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 27 April 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Wondering if he'll shake his recent McConaughey-croak-rap rut for this one.
― Evan, Monday, 27 April 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
yeahh boy does it make me wish they had this idea when his voice wasn't shot
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 27 April 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
I don't necessarily think his voice is shot, just that he is fixated on his drawl and isn't as interested in singing.
― Evan, Monday, 27 April 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully the music will be loud enough to drown out the vocals.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 27 April 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully it'll be more like:
"Where are my vocals?"
"You said you wanted an instrumental remix."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
hopefully it's just a bunch of boxing sound effects and distorted guitars
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 April 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
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.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Saturday, 30 May 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Saturday, 30 May 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
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
― Evan, Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
my wife pointed out to me that this stuff sounds like Counting Crows
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 31 May 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
and she's not wrong
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 31 May 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
this is some of the worst shit i've ever heard - and i wasn't a total benji hater tbh
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
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 ..."
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Monday, 1 June 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
give it the fuck up already, koz.
― meaulnes, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
He already has. Didn't you listen to the record?
― Evan, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 08:12 (nine years ago) link
probably the music
― strangled whelps (imago), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 08:28 (nine years ago) link
benji was one of the worst things i've heard in my entire life btw