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Sun Kil Moon is the current project of 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 Tim Mooney and Anthony Koutsos (also an ex-member of RHP) on drums, and Geoff Stanfield on bass. The band is named after korean bantamweight boxer Sung-Kil Moon.
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.
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.
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Ghosts of the Great Highway
Sun Kil Moon
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jessjess3 wrote:
Modest Mouse is great, no way do they "fucking suck" Sun Kil Moon's versions of their songs are great, but the originals are amazing as well
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spilled_milk wrote:
I'm beginning to realise that sun kil moon is better than 90% of the music I already listen to.
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rasputinarian wrote:
retard
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zacharysk wrote:
what the fuck do you mean, "what the fuck do you mean, 'what the fuck do you mean?'"
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CaptainGaylord wrote:
what the fuck do you mean, "what the fuck do you mean"?
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LePlatypope wrote:
Modest Mouse fuckin' sucks. Save for Float On. But that song's only good because it was playing in a cop's car one time I got arrested.
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Yunckzilla wrote:
what the fuck do you mean, "they weren't" ?
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catachresistant wrote:
Basically, you're wrong.
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Happy_Old_Crow wrote:
"what the fuck do you mean, "could have"?" Well, for starters, they weren't. Then, when you take into account how possible it was for them to be good, being Modest Mouse plus Sun Kil Moon, it's quite easy to understand.
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Slaky311 wrote:
I love this stuff. All of it. Sun Kil Moon's music is from a dream world where everything is in sepia. There's never any doubt what you're listening to the moment you hear.
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darthsketch wrote:
WTF HAPPENED TO APRIL!?
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PrarieD0G wrote:
The plants and the animals, they are lame. The plants and the animals eat each other. ^^ haha, I love that song.
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StormandStatic wrote:
I don't know, the way he arranges them just works out better for me (especially for the newer songs) than Isaac Brock writes them.
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RadioNorris wrote:
C'mon! He's good but the modest mouse covers are not better than the originals. IMO, off course.
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PrarieD0G wrote:
Modest Mouse covers = better than the originals. IMO. Love that album.
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Yunckzilla wrote:
what the fuck do you mean, "could have"?
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catachresistant wrote:
But they were.
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Happy_Old_Crow wrote:
The Modest Mouse covers could have been so awesome.
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stasmeljnikov wrote:
The most beautiful
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coche111 wrote:
DU KOO KIM! GENTLE MOON! fLOATING! MARK KOZELEK ES UNA CHIIIIIIMBA!
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Events
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Feb
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Hal Willner's Neil Young Project
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver, Canada
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News
Interview with Folly Magazine 2007
6 Feb 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/sunkilmoon
A recent interview with Mark by Folly Magazine can be read at:http://www.sunkilmoon.com/FOLLYFebruary07.pdf
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6 Feb 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/sunkilmoon
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