Admiral Fell Promises
Working alone with just a nylon-string guitar, Mark Kozelek takes a new tack under his Sun Kil Moon alias.
Mark Kozelek has long operated under the guise of band names—first Red House Painters, more recently Sun Kil Moon—but even when backed by other musicians, he always sounds like a man alone. On Admiral Fell Promises, his fourth album under the Sun Kil Moon moniker, Kozelek is literally alone, accompanied only by his…
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Sun Kil Moon's Admiral Fell Promises evinces a uniform disinterest in sudden mood shifts or redemptive finales.
Before explaining why Admiral Fell Promises, the latest release from Mark Kozelek, is both a minor sham and a moderate shame, it’s necessary to fully illustrate his career post-Red House Painters.
Mark Kozelek’s fourth LP as Sun Kil Moon is a simple album in that it is just one man signing with a guitar, and nothing more. Ten tracks stretch out, sometimes for too long, forming an hour-length album that is perhaps best described by identifying what it is not. It is not an album filled