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Mark Kozelek

Mark Kozelek

Mark Kozelek

Latest solo release from the Sun Kil Moon man was recorded in various hotel rooms in his home city of San Francisco

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
Rough Trade
UK Release date
11/05/2018
US Release date
11/05/2018
  1. 7.2 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    It has some wonderful tracks like "This is My Town," "The Mark Kozelek Museum," and "I Cried During Wall Street," but like all of his post-Benji records, there’s a lack of focus
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  2. 7.0 |   All Music

    As long and rambling as one would expect from the singer/songwriter, but his mixture of poignancy, humanity, and levity continues to make his music worth hearing
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  3. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    By no means a masterwork, nor is it the overwrought disaster it threatened to be, but instead another collection of songs from someone who just cannot stop writing, cannot stop releasing and, more often than not, hits the emotional marks he aims at
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  4. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    A skeletal record, composed almost exclusively with guitar loops and vocals tracks, designed to serve as a vehicle for his diary-like lyrics
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  5. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    The songwriter’s latest great long ode to himself is at once bloated and transcendent, boring and mesmerizing
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  6. 6.7 |   A.V. Club

    The biggest musical development is that Kozelek is playing more with loops now and sometimes turning his own muttering voice into a background tone.
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  7. 5.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    This could have been something different and truly breathtaking from one of indie rock’s most distinct songwriting personalities, yet he couldn’t help himself but to keep doing the same schtick that he’s been doing for close to a decade now
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  8. 4.0 |   Paste Magazine

    With no dramatic tension, pathos or even story arc, these songs are little more than piles of slack words from an artist who has confused saying whatever comes to mind with having something to say
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