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Sun Kil Moon is the current project of 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 bantamweight boxer Moon Sung-Kil.

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 - of “Glenn Tipton” to the , Crazy Horse-esque of “Salvador Sanchez” and the light-hearted “Lily And Parrots,” onto the fourteen minute 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 album.
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  • surajsharma

    new album is also nice

    21 May 12:51pm Reply

  • Track-FieldStar

    lol at myself for referring to Admiral's genre as "flamengo". i feel fucking retarded.

    18 May 8:08pm Reply

  • Pjotr_G

    Sun kil moon has left an eternal mark on my soul

    18 May 12:04am Reply

  • girldontcome

    I love this so very much. Painted a portrait on my heart.

    8 May 3:03am Reply

  • BrantK

    http://www.last.fm/music/Independent+People

    2 May 4:54am Reply

  • Venus-infurs

    Se puede dar su vueltecita a Japón-Chile?

    25 Apr 3:18am Reply

  • ritakowski

    didnt like his voice at first

    19 Apr 12:07pm Reply

  • neonsleep

    Just to let you guys know you can pre-order ATL on vinyl now - http://www.caldoverderecords.com/

    11 Jan 1:10pm Reply

  • charlieflies

    a feature i wrote on RHP's Bridge album: http://walkingthelongmileshome.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/and-it-feels-so-wonderful-to-swim-in-our-fear-red-house-painters-bridge-1993-track-by-track/

    7 Jan 12:18am Reply

  • way2blues

    I personally consider AFP as Koz' best album. He himself said that in an interview: Q: "Looking back over those 20 years, which records are you most proud of, and why?" MARK: "Admiral Fell Promises, hands down. Bury me with that one. That album is me at my best, my most focused. It's cohesive, beautiful and my playing was inspired by the legendary, Andres Segovia. " So I find it really hard to fathom why AFP is the least listened album here on Lastfm. In fact no song of the album makes it to the top 15 songs list. Adimral Fell Promises is w/o doubt the best album I've ever heard. I even rate it higher than Pink Moon, an album very very close to my heart. Here is the link to the entire interview I referred earlier: http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/mark-kozelek-a-new-qa

    24 Dec 2012 Reply

  • MusicBank_Al

    Anyone have any recommendations of music similar to Admiral Fell Promises? I've started to listen to certain artists who play classical guitar but I've no idea where to go next.

    11 Dec 2012 Reply

  • catachresistant

    lol @ Mooncitygirl. lol lol lol.

    6 Dec 2012 Reply

  • singregardless

    sun kil moon and the album leaf doing an album together! incredible.

    29 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Track-FieldStar

    So your argument is that Sun Kil Moon don't variate their style much between albums (which they do; compare the flamingo of Admiral and the alt-country stuff on Ghosts) and they sound like Iron & Wine, so therefore anyone listening to the music is tone deaf, or, it seems, incompetent? Including yourself? Perhaps you're the one who needs to provide further scrutiny to this band. Among The Leaves is quite different from his other work... the guitar playing and songwriting in general is more rustic, the lyricism almost completely without metaphor, and the arrangements decidedly dry and restrained.

    25 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Mooncitygirl

    And to whoever says he is the most "underrated and under appreciated" give all artist with less than 10k listeners in lastfm a break...

    25 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Mooncitygirl

    Most songs sound the same and he sounds similar to iron and wine and the other bunch of folk artists, what is this crap about the records being different between each other? People should really get their shit together or perhaps get checked for hearing issues, I can't believe 307,857 listeners are deaf toned.

    25 Nov 2012 Reply

  • OrkoOnDoomsday

    New collaborative record with The Album Leaf! Should be awesome.

    24 Nov 2012 Reply

  • way2blues

    Young love is the song of the year for me I'm sure..was just listening to it again and now my player's scuffle has picked Moments (Ocean Beach) so I'm like screwed (glad to be)...MK is playing with my mind again

    23 Nov 2012 Reply

  • viniortolano

    mark is so smooth

    10 Nov 2012 Reply

  • way2blues

    MARK KOZELEK IS GOD!

    6 Nov 2012 Reply
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