Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
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Free Music Review: Follow this road!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is perhaps the finest new music I have heard in the last year. I want to invoke references as diverse as Jim O'Rourke, Neil Young, Thurston Moore, Jimmy Page and Robbie Robertson, but in the final analysis SKM and Mark K. stand alone. This is without a doubt a CD that rewards repeated listening and will etch itself into the soul of posterity. Free Music Review: From someone unfamiliar with Red House Painters
Hit: 4 Stars
I came to this album after hearing the opener on college radio ("Glenn Tipton") so I had no preconceptions or points of comparison with other works of Mark Kozalek. I am not going to use flowery adjectives, I'll just say this album is one that I have played incessantly ever since. Songs like "Glenn Tipton", "Gentle Moon", "Last Tide", and "Carry Me Ohio" just never get tired for me. The vocals, guitar and overall mood and feel of the album are quite unique. I took one star off for the last third of the album which I think loses some of its focus. But overall, easily one of the best albums of 2003.Free Music Review: Brilliant and haunting
Hit: 5 Stars
This happens to me once or twice a year: I become completely in love with an album to the point that I almost can't bear to listen to anything else. In high school it was the classic rock classics (The Wall, Physical Graffiti, The White Album, The Unforgettable Fire), and as my tastes matured some I branched out a little into less radio-friendly fare (Nothing's Shocking, Earth Sun Moon by Love & Rockets, Robbie Robertson's self titled) and embarrassingly often even loved (and still love) records that were downright cheesy (Third Eye Blind, Gish by Smashing Pumpkins, First Band on the Moon by The Cardigans).
Along the way there have been flirts and crushes (Coldplay, Foo Fighters, My Bloody Valentine) all containing excellent and love-worthy music, but nothing that could rock me like the proverbial hurricane.
Anyways. After Grace by Jeff Buckley I never thought I could love that way again, but along came Juliana Hatfield with the "Please Do Not Disturb" EP (let's not forget "Only Everything") then Elliot Smith with XO and after a dry period Jet Age by Superjesus and Ben Kweller with Sha Sha.
All of which has led up to my new love: Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon. I listen to a track or two in the morning, then a song here and there at work, and the whole album once or twice before I go to bed. I just can't get enough. I must be taking crazy pills! I can hear the songs in my head 24 hours a day.
Free Music Review: over-analyzing stuff is fun!
Hit: 4 Stars
a seemingly complete aesthetic vision. i was immediately taken by the texture and loosness of the insturmentation- especially the guitar work b/c i like guitars. His good singing voice is used to haunting, sad, streaming, fractured, personalized effect. (I dunno, thats a major compliment considering I"m a fan of Cat Power, Josh Groban, C. Aguilera). So many hook melodies on this album, its not even funny. The coup de taut was finding lyrics on the web. I don't understand the meaning, but I really appreciate the boxing, sea, wandering imagery. Drove home the feeling of the album to me. Is it just me or is this album kinda like an elitisticlly artsy version of some of Los Lobos' songs? The eukele sounding stuff reminds me of Los Lobos softer stuff. Los Lobos blows away Parrot song when it comes to rocking out though. Dhajphong
Free Music Review: Some brilliant moments, but still leaves me wanting ...
Hit: 3 Stars
I was really excited to pick up this disc, being a long-time Kozalek fan. Like other people, I had a really difficult time getting into it at first...I've had it for a couple months now and its grown on me nicely, but I still feel that its missing some of the masochisticly romantic magic that can be found Revelation Big Sur, Mistress, Summer Dress, Love Hungry Man, etc. Where the album scores big points is production. Its nice to hear Mark do something thats not so sloppy. The production is clean and the guitars sound great and it works because it never gets in the way of the songs.
Oh, and "Lily & Parrots" is the best rocker he's ever written.