Artist: Mark Kozelek
Record Review from web archive January 2, 2009
Mark Kozelek
The Finally LP compiles ten examples of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek’s artistic modus operandi: acoustic guitar delicately picked and gently strummed; vocals delivered with sadness as persistent as breathing and softness as intense as whispering; and a willingness to pay homage to other songwriters. Only the opening and closing [...]
Column from web archive October 30, 2008
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, And The Amorphous Strums Cause Really Long Headline To Be Written
Vic Chesnutt And Elf Power, Together At Last: Singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt and fellow Athens, Georgia, musicians Elf Power – known for darkly weird folk and darkly weird pop, respectively – have teamed with backing band the Amorphous Strums for the darkly weird folk-pop disc Dark Developments. Recorded in Chesnutt’s attic, the disc is already prompting [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities / Iron Horse – Pickin’ On Modest Mouse: A Bluegrass Tribute
Northwest indie-rockers Modest Mouse have been a target for both doe-eyed reverie and lip-curled hatred, but regardless of which camp you align with (I fall deeply into the former), it’s impossible to deny frontman Isaac Brock’s lyrical obsession with the afterlife, interstates and urbanization of the west. If critics have paid minimal attention to his [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway
Mark Kozelek, former leader of Red House Painters, is certainly capable of throwing fans the occasional curveball; witness his 2001 solo set of Bon Scott-era AC/DC covers, What’s Next To The Moon. But fear not. His new quartet, Sun Kil Moon, does not mark a radical stylistic departure. Kozelek still turns nearly every phrase he [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001
Hayseed Dixie – A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC / Mark Kozelek What’s Next To The Moon
Back not front when the ’80s were like dish soap dawning, Claire O. jammed like huckleberries to the dead-bang head-bang, her poodle-doodle-’do shakin’ like Stevens, and nobody put the rooty-tooty in her booty like Angus forever Young in his short pants. Vile, puerile, and like a youthful river juvenile, AC/DC nonetheless that is to say [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Red House Painters – Old Ramon
Taking its name from a Spanish children’s book, Old Ramon emerges after laying away for nearly four years since San Francisco’s Red House Painters put the ten-song collection to tape. While the late-’90s major-label merger kept Old Ramon tucked away, principal Painter Mark Kozelek remained busy, issuing a pair of solo records (one of which [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Mark Kozelek – Rocky Mountain Highway To Hell
For all the time spent writing and rewriting, learning and relearning, searching and researching, endlessly following that long and winding road traveled by those whose lives are mesmerized by music…it is, ultimately, a matter of the moment. Craft and practice have their place, but only to serve the call of inspiration, which strikes of its [...]
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