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Tiny Cities (Album) by Sun Kil Moon
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Sun Kil Moon Is The Current Project Of San Francisco California-Based Singer-Songwriter Mark Kozelek Best Known For His Previous Band Red House Painters. Sun Kil Moon Sees Kozelek Undertake All The Writing Composing Singing And Guitar Playing Accompanied By Anthony Koutsos Also An Ex-Member Of RHP On Drums And Geoff Stanfield On Bass. Tim Mooney Also Played Drums With Sun Kil Moon Until His Death In June 2012. The Band Is Named After Korean Bantamweight Boxer Sung-Kil Moon. Following The Dissolution Of Red House Painters After The Tumultuous Release Of Their Last Album Old Ramon Kozelek Released A Handful Of Solo Recordings Before Forming Sun Kil Moon In 2002. Their Debut Album Ghosts Of The Great Highway Was Written Entirely By Kozelek And Released By Jetset Records In 2003. It Is An Album Centered Around The Theme Of Memory Connecting Kozelek's Haunting Memories With The True-Life Stories Of Deceased Boxers Such As Featherweight Champion Salvador Sanchez And Flyweight Pancho Villa. Kozelek's Music With Sun Kil Moon Spans Genres Such As The Simple Acoustic Country-Folk Of "Glenn Tipton" To The Heavy Crazy Horse-Esque Rock Of "Salvador Sanchez" And The Light-Hearted "Lily And Parrots " Onto The Fourteen Minute Psychedelic Tour De Force "Duk Koo Kim" Another Homage To A Deceased Boxer And The Beautiful And Haunting "Gentle Moon" And "Carry Me Ohio." Kozelek's Voice Is Now More Flexible And Less Downcast Than In His Work With Red House Painters Resulting In A Resonant And Often Beautiful Album. The Band's Follow-Up Tiny Cities Was Released On November 1st 2005 On Kozelek's Own Caldo Verde Label. The Album Covers Eleven Songs By The Indie/alternative Group Modest Mouse And In Its Sparse Production And Spare Instrumentation Is More Or Less A Solo Work By Kozelek. Kozelek Is Known For Covering Songs From Bands Not Normally Associated To His Genre Of Slow Introspective Music. They Are More Than Traditional Covers As They Are Extensively Re-Worked And Re-Interpreted To The Point That They Are Often Not Recognizable To The Originals And Take On A Different Meaning Despite The Lyrics Remaining Intact Word-For-Word. Kozelek's 2000 Solo Debut Rock 'n' Roll Singer Featured Covers Of Songs By AC/DC And John Denver. His Solo 2001 Follow-Up What's Next To The Moon Was An Entire Album Of AC/DC Songs Done In His Typically Languid Hypnotically Melancholy Acoustic Style. Even Further Back Songs For A Blue Guitar The 1996 Red House Painters Album Featured Covers Of Yes's Long Distance Runaround Paul McCartney & Wings's Silly Love Songs And The Cars' "All Mixed Up". Tiny Cities Is Very Much In This Tradition Taking The Often Frenetic Noisy Songs Of Modest Mouse And Transforming Them Into Haunting Acoustic Guitar-Dominated Midtempo Ballads Filled With A Deep-Seated Haunting Melancholy.
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Sun Kil Moon Is The Current Project Of San Francisco California-Based Singer-Songwriter Mark Kozelek Best Known For His Previous Band Red House Painters. Sun Kil Moon Sees Kozelek Undertake All The Writing Composing Singing And Guitar Playing Accompanied By Anthony Koutsos Also An Ex-Member Of RHP On Drums And Geoff Stanfield On Bass. Tim Mooney Also Played Drums With Sun Kil Moon Until His Death In June 2012. The Band Is Named After Korean Bantamweight Boxer Sung-Kil Moon. Following The Dissolution Of Red House Painters After The Tumultuous Release Of Their Last Album Old Ramon Kozelek Released A Handful Of Solo Recordings Before Forming Sun Kil Moon In 2002. Their Debut Album Ghosts Of The Great Highway Was Written Entirely By Kozelek And Released By Jetset Records In 2003. It Is An Album Centered Around The Theme Of Memory Connecting Kozelek's Haunting Memories With The True-Life Stories Of Deceased Boxers Such As Featherweight Champion Salvador Sanchez And Flyweight Pancho Villa. Kozelek's Music With Sun Kil Moon Spans Genres Such As The Simple Acoustic Country-Folk Of "Glenn Tipton" To The Heavy Crazy Horse-Esque Rock Of "Salvador Sanchez" And The Light-Hearted "Lily And Parrots " Onto The Fourteen Minute Psychedelic Tour De Force "Duk Koo Kim" Another Homage To A Deceased Boxer And The Beautiful And Haunting "Gentle Moon" And "Carry Me Ohio." Kozelek's Voice Is Now More Flexible And Less Downcast Than In His Work With Red House Painters Resulting In A Resonant And Often Beautiful Album. The Band's Follow-Up Tiny Cities Was Released On November 1st 2005 On Kozelek's Own Caldo Verde Label. The Album Covers Eleven Songs By The Indie/alternative Group Modest Mouse And In Its Sparse Production And Spare Instrumentation Is More Or Less A Solo Work By Kozelek. Kozelek Is Known For Covering Songs From Bands Not Normally Associated To His Genre Of Slow Introspective Music. They Are More Than Traditional Covers As They Are Extensively Re-Worked And Re-Interpreted To The Point That They Are Often Not Recognizable To The Originals And Take On A Different Meaning Despite The Lyrics Remaining Intact Word-For-Word. Kozelek's 2000 Solo Debut Rock 'n' Roll Singer Featured Covers Of Songs By AC/DC And John Denver. His Solo 2001 Follow-Up What's Next To The Moon Was An Entire Album Of AC/DC Songs Done In His Typically Languid Hypnotically Melancholy Acoustic Style. Even Further Back Songs For A Blue Guitar The 1996 Red House Painters Album Featured Covers Of Yes's Long Distance Runaround Paul McCartney & Wings's Silly Love Songs And The Cars' "All Mixed Up". Tiny Cities Is Very Much In This Tradition Taking The Often Frenetic Noisy Songs Of Modest Mouse And Transforming Them Into Haunting Acoustic Guitar-Dominated Midtempo Ballads Filled With A Deep-Seated Haunting Melancholy.
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Review By Thom Jurek From Allmusic.Com The Curious Sophomore Effort From Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon -- With Both Geoff Stanfield And Anthony Koutsos Returning From Ghosts Of The Great Highway -- Is A Tribute Album To Indie Rockers Modest Mouse And Is Entirely Made Up Of Songs From Their Catalogue. That Said Kozelek Treats These Tunes As If He Wrote Them Himself. The Same Blend Of Acoustic And Electric Guitars Exist Here As They Did On The Band's Debut But Kozelek's Voice Is Mixed Way Up In An Otherwise Sparse Production. Shimmering Acoustic Rock And Country Meld And Wind Together On "Neverending Math Equation " And "Space Travel Is Never Boring." The Slow Off-Waltz Time Of "Jesus Christ Was An Only Child" Is In A Way The Hinge Piece Of A Recording That Deals With Memory Childhood And The Emerging Of A Fragmented Person Built From These Experiences. The Allegorical Tone Of The Tune Suggests Affinity Difference And The Small Ways In Which What We Were Taught When We Were Young Opens Up Spaces In Us Where We Can Encounter The World. "Four Fingered Fishermen" Acknowledges This With Its Small Strolling Blend Of Acoustic Guitars And Kozelek's Iteration Of His Witness Of Those Different Than Himself. The Beautiful And Moving "Grey Ice Water " Done Mariachi Style With Backing Vocals From Michi Aceret And Emily Herron Is The Full Articulation Of Seeing People And The World As Somehow Interconnected No Matter How Random The Encounter With Them. Tiny Cities Is So Aptly Titled A Recording Of Motion The Passing Of Distances And The Sometimes Too-Close Experience Of Intersection Connection And Disconnection That Happens In Both Open And Claustrophobic Environments -- Check "Trucker's Atlas" For The Rootless Awareness Of Caged-In Restlessness No Matter How Wide The Terrain Is To Run And Move. How It Comes Off Is A Seemingly Original Work Which Makes It More Extraordinary Considering That These Aren't His Songs. This Is A Gorgeous Recording One That In A Very Intimate Way Opens Up An Entire Universe Of Possibility For Understanding Integration And Brokenness. A Fitting Tribute Indeed.