Mark Kozelek’s Sun Kil Moon has teamed up with the Hungarian band Amoeba for a remarkable cross-continental collaboration simply titled Sun Kil Moon featuring Amoeba. The album was recorded in Hungary throughout 2022 and 2023 and marks Kozelek’s first major international studio partnership in several years.
Initially released outside of North America in September 2024, the album later arrived on CD and vinyl in October 2024. It blends Sun Kil Moon’s introspective storytelling and spoken-word style with Amoeba’s rich, jazz-infused instrumentation, resulting in one of the most atmospheric and emotionally charged records in Kozelek’s recent catalog. The follow-up, Sun Kil Moon and Amoeba Vol. 2, features eight tracks that stretch…
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…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…