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Post subject: Re: Mark Kozelek | Sun Kil Moon | Red House Painters
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 6:52 pm
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Finally listened to his newest album. It has some really cool musical moments, but his rambling lyrics and delivery was tiresome and trite 4 albums ago.
Post subject: Re: Mark Kozelek | Sun Kil Moon | Red House Painters
Posted: Mon September 16, 2019 7:08 pm
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I care less about his personality and more about the fact that he's made like 8 mediocre to bad albums in a row, with the possible exception being the Jesu/Sun Kil Moon record.
Yeah it was easy to overlook what a dick the guy was when he was making listenable music. He's sucked for a long time, even when people were trying to pretend Benji was good.
Post subject: Re: Mark Kozelek | Sun Kil Moon | Red House Painters
Posted: Tue September 17, 2019 3:25 am
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19718 Location: Cumberland, RI
I haven't listened to every post-Benji record, but the only one that I found totally unlistenable was Yellow Kitchen. Both SKM/Jesu records had really good stuff, I liked the MK self-titled record, and Universal Themes was alright--each of these had some pretty disappointing lows, but I think when MK is on he can still deliver some memorable textures and lyrics. But I'm not going to argue with anyone about these records, because I can totally understand being turned off by them, considering how much his style and delivery has changed. I will totally stand for Benji, though--it might not be as good front-to-back as some of the other SKM records, but it has some of my favorite MK tunes on it. I love both the propellent energy of Richard Ramirez and the meandering drone of Carissa and Micheline, and I think some of the songs about his childhood come across as incredibly nostalgic in a way that doesn't see that word as a pejorative.
There's probably one too many songs about his family members who blew themselves up by burning trash in their front yards, but that's Ohio for you.
Post subject: Re: Mark Kozelek | Sun Kil Moon | Red House Painters
Posted: Thu September 19, 2019 11:38 pm
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Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Benji is incredible and I refuse to listen to any SKM album since then.
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