Joey Always Smiled

After spending years building a career on beautifully melancholic guitar-based compositions and lush, murmuring indie rock, something shifted for Mark Kozelek.

Another day, another Mark Kozelek album, eh? It's the latest in an interesting line of collaborative records previously seeing the San Franciscan work with Jimmy LaValle (The Album Leaf), Desertshore, Jesu, and more, to varying results.