Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises

[BmWr75]

Artist - Sun Kil Moon
Title - Admiral Fell Promises
Year of Release - July 13, 2010
Record Label - Caldo Verde
Genre - Acoustic

10 songs, 60 minutes long.

This the best Mark Kozelek (formerly of The Red House Painters) release since "Ghosts of the Great Highway" in 2003. It is just Mark and a nylon string guitar singing all new material he has written and composed. He sings harmony with himself on many of the songs, sometimes one voice from the left speaker and the other from the right. It is a hauntingly beautiful album sung in his typical droning, plaintive voice. I'm listening to it now through AKG K702 headphones and nice DAC/HP amp It sounds very well recorded.

I am thoroughly enjoying this new CD. Give it a preview and see if you like it too.

I've heard tell that Mark works at a San Francisco hotel as a bell boy or some such........in other words, his steady day job.

 

[JohnVF]

I'll have to check it out. Ghosts of the Great Highway was the last releases of his that I bought, I think. I always liked his work, going all the way back to Down Colorful Hill. "All mixed up" is my personal most played song, probably, of my entire life.

Thanks for the reminder of such a great artist. "have you forgotten...". Yes, I had.

 

[marqueemoon]

I have been meaning to pick this up. I hate to say it but Kozelek is almost *too* prolific. I have a hard time keeping up with his output sometimes.

 

[JDaniel]

Wow - didn't know about this new album. Ghosts of the Great Highway is an incredible album.

 

[mac mini]

Ghosts of the Highway and April are good too. Son Kil Moon is the best music to come out of Ohio since Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde and Roy Rogers.