SUN KIL MOON - “Tiny Cities”
CD: “TINY CITIESâ€â€"SUN KIL MOON
Rock, $16.98 (list price), Caldo Verde
BASIC STORY: Former Red House Painter leader Mark Kozelek releases his 2nd (brilliant) solo album under his Sun Kil Moon moniker.
SAMPLE: “Just got a message, said, yeah, hell is freezing over/Got a phone call from the lord saying, “Boy, go get a sweater, right nowâ€.
Review: Like on his first Sun Kil Moon album, Mark Kozelek fills Tiny Cities with beautifully wrought languid melodies and melancholy-soaked music of the highest order. Unlike that first album, however, Tiny Cities consists of entirely of eleven covers of songs by Isaac Brock, leader of Modest Mouse. Pulling off a tour-de-force of taking the poetic, introspective lyrics of one band and completely re-fashioning them into the form of another, Kozelek creates a stunning tribute to Brock’s word-play while continuing his endeavors as the finest purveyor of melancholy rock (think Elliot Smith) working today.
A superb album from beginning to end.
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