Mark Kozelek - What's Next to the Moon
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Free Music Review: captures the soul of the songs
Hit: 5 Stars
Mark Kozelek - all that I admire about music, all that drives me to write songs, all that compels me to not settle for anything less than the truly amazing - is caputered in the beauty that is Mark's music.
It was the greatest accident in my life. I saw "Ghost's of the Great Highway" in a record store a few years ago and bought it thinking I was buying a different artist. (PS: The Baptist Generals album Silver and Gold has a similar looking cover, and at the time I couldn't remember the name The Baptist Generals, but I remembered what the cover kind of looked like.) It was one of the greatest musical discoveries I've made in a long time.
With What's Next to The Moon he takes ACDC songs and deconstructs them, stripping them of everything that you know of ACDC and playing it with just an acoustic guitar. Simply amazing! We all now ACDC's sound and we know it well, they are balls to the wall rock. What we have here, however, is a guy who has managed to find and bring to light the soul of their songs. They are so unrecogonizable that unless you are pretty familiar with their music, you probably wouldn't even know that they are cover songs.
Not to put to fine a point on it, but the only other musician I know of who could take somebody else's song and make it their own to the point where you don't even care who did the original - was Johnny Cash.
Standout track: Love at First Feel
Free Music Review: ac who?
Hit: 5 Stars
I was never particularly familiar with AC/DC. I was too young, or had the wrong friends, or something. But in Koselek's rendition of these songs I feel as though I can hear the originals without needing to hear them. More than that, Koselek takes us into the heart and soul of the songs. It's like hearing the writer discussing the emotional undercurrent of his lyrics on a therapist's couch. But it's far more than that. Koselek is a genius at getting inside and under a song and making it his own. He crafts beautifully simple arrangements that sound as though they came first.
I'd highly recommend this album. I've listened to it regularly for months. And, if you like this, you'll love Koselek's similar treatment of Modest Mouse. Modest Mouse I am familiar with, I'm a huge Mouse fan, and what Koselek does with their beautiful songs under the moniker Sun Kil Moon is a treat to hear. Tiny Cities
Free Music Review: Other stuff to check out
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a huge fan of catchy, quiet folk music with insightful lyrics. If you enjoy this album then I strongly recommend that you check out the following:
1) Ghosts Of The Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon
2) Kings Avenue Joe Kile
3) Subtitulo by Josh Rouse
Free Music Review: why did I wait so long?
Hit: 5 Stars
the Red House Painters were a band I heard of MANY times but never actually listened to. It was in winter 2001 when I heard "Mistress" on an old 1993 CD compilation. After getting hooked on the RHP right away, a friend recomended "Rock and Roll Singer" and "What's Next To The Moon", but for some reason I never picked them up. What a big mistake. I still Don't have Rock and Roll Singer but I just got a hold of What's Next To The Moon and I absolutely love this CD. All AC/DC songs done acoustic and mellow. I would HIGHLY recomend this CD to any fan of the RHP. Honestly, I think this CD blows away ANYTHING that Mark has done in the past. Free Music Review: Kozelek's Alchemic Touch
Hit: 4 Stars
Mark Kozelek has been putting out great music for a long time, from the early Red House Painters' output all the way to his recent "Ghosts of the Great Highway" under his new band's banner, Sun Kil Moon.
This effort is one of two solo albums he recorded after RHP disbanded, and probably the quirkiest and most ambitious of both albums. Every song here is an AC-DC cover, and when you think of the high Heavy Rock energy of the original versions, contrasted with Kozelek's laid back and melancholy sound signature, the results are wondrous.
Not being a fan of AC-DC, I did not bring any prior love of this material to justify potentially mediocre renditions. Even further I was somewhat skeptical about Kozelek's left-of-field repertoire choice.
The final product of this venture could not be more pleasing in its realization nor surprising as far as the new depths of feeling he's brought out from these tunes.
It takes a talent and modesty like Kozelek's to sense the essential beauty in these songs, strip the sound to its bare truth, and come out with such personal reading of such unlikely material.
If in addition to your respect for Kozelek you also dig AC-DC, this may be even more rewarding for you that has already been for me. If Kozelek's own writing has already moved you, you may prefer to check his other acoustic album out, Rock and Roll Singer.
Either one is bound to fulfill the proper expectations.