Easily Kozelak's best offering since the dissolution of the Red House Painters. These are simple songs on acoustic guitar that let you close your eyes and drift away to your happy or sad gooey middle. This is not good driving music.
Kozelak/Sun Kil Moon have drifted in the last few years, putting out cover albums, albeit good cover albums, but this is the first offering of new music in a couple albums. Tiny Cities, their previous offering, was covers of Modest Mouse songs. They were interesting re-interpretations of indie scenster classics, but ultimately were unfulfilling because they left me wanting new Sun Kil Moon. Now I've got it and the wait seems to be worth it. There's no let down. There really aren't even any stinkers on the album. There are a few gems and then the remainder rest comfortably at around a B/B+. I'm sure there's a song or two about his cats in there, but i didn't notice and i didn't mind.
Lucky Man, Heron Blue and Blue Orchids steal this album. Maybe they just speak to me right now and came into my life at the right point, but they resonate with me and i think that is ultimately the highest praise anyone can give a song or album.
Artist: Sun Kil Moon
Album: April
Released: 2008
Best Tracks: Lucky Man, Heron Blue, Blue Orchid
Play if you like: Sad songs that lodge in your brain
No comments:
Post a Comment