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Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood

Sun Kil Moon

Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood

Mark Kozelek's eighth album under the Sun Kil Moon moniker is a double

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6.6

Label
Rough Trade
UK Release date
17/02/2017
US Release date
17/02/2017
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  1. 9.2 |   Earbuddy

    The only dual-contender for both Best Album of 2017 and Worst Album of 2017
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  2. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Kozelek adopts more of a full-band, improvisational approach to his sound and songwriting, resulting in some of his most stylistically eclectic material to date
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  3. 8.0 |   State

    An album firmly rooted in the recent past; using societal touchstones such as the political landscape, the economic climate and the current state of the music industry
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  4. 7.1 |   Gig Soup

    Devoting time to ‘Common as Light’ is worth the effort in most part
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  5. 7.0 |   All Music

    For all of his bluster, he is truly a humanist, and wishes the best for the world, even if it seems like it's falling apart
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  6. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Taking its place alongside recent work-in-progress-style releases by Kanye and Kendrick, it's an epic for our unfiltered moment
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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Kozelek is making resolute observations in a stream of consciousness fashion by railing against widespread injustices while his whirlwind of session musicians arrange bare yet engrossing instrumentation to accompany him
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  8. 6.6 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    As a writer of the English language, Kozelek gets perfect marks; as a writer of songs, the jury is still out
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  9. 6.5 |   Pitchfork

    Daring and self-reflective, but too often he prides long stretches of bitter humor and anger over the subtlety of his previous work
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  10. 5.0 |   Exclaim

    Sun Kil Moon has become like sitting in a car with Mark Kozelek and listening to him talk
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  11. 5.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The double album concept only waters down Kozelek’s biting social commentary and exquisite observations on living
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  12. 4.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    So flippant and self-indulgent that it practically dares one to listen
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