• Stream: Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes

    June 1, 2015 - By 

    Due for release tomorrow, just over 6 months since his last record, Mark Kozelek’s seventh album under the Sun Kil Moon pseudonym – Universal Themes – is now up for streaming on his official site just one day before its official release date. Continuing on where last year’s career-defining Benji left off, all the hallmarks of his raw, sardonic musings are instantly evident in the tracklisting: 1. ‘The Possum’ 2. ‘Birds of Flims’ 3. ‘With a Sort of Grace I Walked to the Bathroom to Cry’ 4. ‘Cry Me a River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues’ 5. ‘Little Rascals’ 6. ‘Garden of Lavender’ 7. ‘Ali/Spinks 2’ 8. ‘This Is My…

  • Sun Kil Moon @ The Button Factory

    December 11, 2014 - By 

    There’s a relaxed, seasonal warmth upon entering the Button Factory for tonight’s mostly seated, limited capacity show, which sees Mark Kozelek at possibly the most critically acclaimed stage of his career – almost every song performed tonight comes from the last two years of his career – due in no small part to this year’s Sun Kil Moon LP, the mortality-fixated Benji. With no support act, Kozelek ambles onstage accompanied simply by a keyboardist and electric guitarist, standing with a sole tea-towelled drumstick for his lone tom, holding a straight beat with the intent of a serial killer for the entirety…