Mark Kozelek New Release As: Sun Kil Moon.

Mark Kozelek, Sadness Is The Only Love.

a new album on November 1st on Kozelek's own Caldo Verde Records in the U.S. and on Rough Trade Records for the rest of the world. The album, Tiny Cities, finds Kozelek covering 11 songs by Modest Mouse. As anyone who has followed Mark's career would expect, the songs are vastly reworked, and offer listeners a new look at the unorthodox songwriting of Isaac Brock.

Recorded at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco in early 2005, Tiny Cities is the second Sun Kil Moon release. The 2003 debut Ghosts of the Great Highway was one of Kozelek's greatest commercial and critical successes, lauded by Rolling Stone as "elegant beauty." For Tiny Cities, Sun Kil Moon reunites for more of the slow, gorgeous musicianship fans have come to expect.

Mark Kozelek first began performing Modest Mouse songs after seeing a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in 2003. Intrigued with Brock's lyrics and vocal delivery, Kozelek first added a few of Brock's songs to his live sets, and then, eventually took them to the studio for what became this full-length recording.

Not new to the world of covers, Kozelek has reinterpreted, recorded and performed materials by a diverse array of artists including AC/DC, Kiss, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel and more. In addition to this new recording, Kozelek recently recorded Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman" for the Songs from the Brown Hotel charity compilation EP, organized by Cameron Crowe to coincide with his new film Elizabethtown. Kozelek also appears in the upcoming Steve Martin produced Shopgirl. In September, he joins Alan Sparhawk's Retribution Gospel Choir as guest guitarist for several U.S. tour dates.

Press Release Note From The Label Page.

"Tiny Cities" 2005

Such a remarkable songwriter who clearly appreciates other remarkable songwriters, Mark Kozelek seems to really loves covering other folks' music! You might recall his awesome cavalcade of AC/DC songs (found on three of his solo cds -- Rock & Roll Singer, What's Next To The Moon and the out-of-print White Christmas), not to mention a handful of John Denver, Kiss and Simon & Garfunkel tunes too. Well, in his post-Red House Painters band Sun Kil Moon he's strangely chosen to follow-up their acclaimed 2003 debut album Ghosts Of The Highway with a sophomore effort which is comprised completely of Modest Mouse covers. S'pose it was a pretty fun album to record considering the caliber of Isaac Brock's songs (not to mention a pretty shrewd business move on his part considering the current popularity of Brock & Co). Very odd, but it works! Kozelek fully inhabits Tiny Cities, making the songs warmly his own.

Review By Aquarius.

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Listen To Stream Samples From The New Release:

"Space Travel Is Boring"

"Trucker's Atlas"