★★★★★
www.caloverde.com
BY JOHN SCHACHT
Death, death, death, death. The Pale Rider gallops through Mark Kozelek's latest LP via every imaginable avenue: relatives who die too young, the impending passing of parents, the random victims of serial killers and gun fanatics, accidental fire victims (two of them!), the euthanized, and, underlying this all, the death of our younger selves...
- blurtonline.com
2014-04-03
★★★★★
Sun Kil MoonBenji (Caldo Verde Records)
Benji, named for the lovable, Texas-lensed Seventies pooch, concerns itself with mortality, singer Mark Kozelek bearing witness to his own life and those who've passed through it. There's sex, drugs, crab cakes, and people you've never met and never will, including James Gandolfini and the children of Newtown, Conn., but their presence devastates nonetheless...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
Sun Kil Moon's last record, Among The Leaves, was the work of an exhausted songwriter throwing everyone he knew at the dartboard. What stuck out most was Mark Kozelek's long list of target characters: annoying fans reduced to the role of 'guys in tennis shoes', diehards with the post-show blues because their hero didn't play 'Katy Song', and condescended to ex-girlfriends, lamented as one-night stands. Most wickedly, he disregarded other songwriters...
- thequietus.com
2014-02-27
★★★★★
In Autumn 1992, 4AD released one of their benchmark records, Red House Painters' debut Down Colorful Hill, a six-track collection of demos personally selected by label head Ivo Watts-Russell that perfectly mirrored the cover image - a solitary, black and white shot of a single bed in an otherwise empty room...
- drownedinsound.com
2014-02-27
★★★★★
In Autumn 1992, 4AD released one of their benchmark records, Red House Painters' debut , a seven-track collection of demos personally selected by label head Ivo Watts-Russell that perfectly mirrored the cover image - a solitary, black and white shot of a single bed in an otherwise empty room. They followed that up soon after with a self-titled record known better as which extended the slow, confessional, 'music box sound' style into a double album that was as gloriously downbeat as it was...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-02-26
★★★★★
Available on: Caldo Verde Though Mark Kozelek has few equals when it comes to dislodging lumps in throats, Benji is his most emotionally taxing Sun Kil Moon record by some way. It's an album almost entirely about death - the deaths of relatives, friends, strangers and children; people who die young and old; in fires and in school shootings; in freak accidents and of heart attacks...
- www.factmag.com
2014-02-21
★★★★★
At what point does sincerity become experimental? I'm always a bit suspicious whenever someone tells me that an album has "changed" their life. More often than not, the exact opposite is true. No matter how good, the album in question hasn't changed a thing at all, but merely affirmed some deeply ingrained, more pleasing vision of the listener's identity.....
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2014-02-20
★★★★★
Can old dogs learn new tricks? 'Benji' is Mark Kozelek's sixth album under the Sun Kil Moon moniker, or his 12th if you include the Red House Painters records they follow - and that's not counting two collaborative albums last year. With such a prodigious work rate, a man could be forgiven for losing his edge. Kozelek's songs match a mordant sensibility with a wry wit that remains unblunted by the passage of time...
- www.nme.com
2014-02-18
★★★★★
Sun Kil Moon's latest, , feels like the definitive statement many have been waiting for from singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek, whose workmanlike approach, relentless touring schedule and accessibility to recording facilities has given fans a steady flow of new material without the undeniable classic album we've all known Kozelek was capable of. 2012's was an excellent collection of songs about, well.....
- us5.campaign-archive2.com
2014-02-14
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