…Live bonus tracks recorded in Los Angeles 2013/2023/2024.
If ever there was an album for Mark Kozelek’s true cult of admirers, Benji is it. Despite the trademark intimacy in his songs, Kozelek has usually concealed himself behind them. Not here. These nakedly confessional songs are adorned by his voice, nylon-string guitar, and sundry instruments and voices. The record is haunted by the ghosts of his native Ohio. Named for a 1974 kids film he liked as a child, Benji is exceptionally wordy. Once Kozelek begins unspinning his life, he can’t stop. Lines collide and mundane details combine with memories and shift quickly, making songs sometimes difficult to track. In opener “Carissa,” he returns to Ohio for the funeral of…
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