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  • Audio CD (31 Mar 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Caldo Verde
  • ASIN: B00158FK42
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,564 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Lost Verses
2. Light, The
3. Lucky Man
4. Unlit Hallway
5. Heron Blue
6. Moorestown
7. Harper Road
8. Tonight The Sky
9. Like The River
10. Tonight In Bilbao
11. Blue Orchids

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Whether working under his own name, with his 1990s band RedHouse Painters, or with subsequent outfit Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek has never strayed far from his initial stylistic template of melancholy, hypnotic folk rock full of Nick Drake-like acoustic fingerpicking and wistful, honeyed vocals. This remains true on APRIL, the third Sun Kil Moon album, though Kozelek has refined his approach for maximum impact. Fromstart to finish, APRIL is a creature of sadness and beauty--a 74-minute-long sigh, echoing intimate, autumnal whispers (despite the springtime title) into the night. Alternating between delicate acoustic ballads and long, fuzzed-out, Neil Young & Crazy Horse-influenced dirt-road jams (a juxtaposition he's been perfecting since the 1996 Painters album SONGS FOR A BLUE GUITAR), Kozelek delivers a fully matured versionof the moody sound he first explored 16 years earlier.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sun Kil Moon's best yet., 5 April 2008
By Adam Wilkinson "Music Guru" (Nottingham, England) - See all my reviews
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My opinion of 'Moorestown' when I listened to it on the 'Little Drummer Boy' album was that it is one of the finest songs of Kozelek's career. Hearing it here with the richer instrumentation, it still carries the same beauty as when I first heard the live version. Probably one of the standout tracks on the album, though the whole album is really, at the very least, on par.

Whether or not you're already familiar with Sun Kil Moon there's a good chance that you'll be captivated by this album. I'd certainly go so far as to say that it's Sun Kil Moon's best release to date, and ranks right up there with the best material from Kozelek's career. With my favourite modern songwriters being Mark Kozelek and Will Oldham, I was also overwhelmed with joy when I discovered that the Bonnie Prince contributes to two songs on this album, 'Unlit Hallway' and 'Like the River', and his voice really brings something even more special to those already stunning tracks.

My high expectations have easily been surpassed with this album. I really can't recommend it enough.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stick with April it will reveal its beauty, 3 May 2009
I generally hate the description but this album is a slow burner. The previous Sun Kil Moon album "Ghosts of the great highway" is in many respects a much more accessible and conventional album and contains the brilliant openers Glenn Tipton, the wonderous "Carry me Ohio" (the acoustic version is equally immense) plus the greatest song Neil Young never wrote "Salvador Sanchez". April alternatively has a very slow, incremental and meandering quality about it. Mark Kozelek is not going to be rushed. Three songs either exceed or touch 10 minutes and are all the better for it.

When I first bought April I played it a couple of times and must admit that that it did seem somewhat repetitive. All great albums however "reveal" themselves to you with the passage of time and perseverance. The subtleties and nuances emerge; quiet background melodies catch your ear and the songs burn deep. Lost Verses is an example. Mark Kozelek has penned one of his greatest compositions here as good as anything by the Red House Painters and matching the brilliant Katy's Song. The lyrics are achingly beautiful as he rises from bed and contemplates leaving a relationship

"Came out from under her warm sheets
Into the brisk late October
If only for one last hope
I wanted my time with you to be over"

It leads to a journey around San Francisco reflecting on the things that we all deeply care about; family, relationships, nature, the changing seasons and more. Then at 8 minutes the song pauses and turns in a joyful and uplifting guitar solo which is absolutely perfect. Further delights follow with Moorestown, Tonight in Bilbao and the Unlit Hallway which has the god like genius of Will Oldham on backing vocals. Heron Blue has a beautiful guitar work and is almost medieval with its folk underpinnings while the 10 minute "Tonights the sky" has a backing riff that checks Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youngs "Ohio" and charts another broken relationship (Kozelek's speciality) where he discovers "powers unrelenting, that pulled us apart".

Ultimately April will not be everyone's cup of tea, try it on Spotify and see whether you like it. Its tone is as wintry as Bon Iver's "For Emma" and its sombre epic ballads are as far removed from the charts as is humanly possible. Mark Kozelek writes music for grown ups, for contemplation and reflection. I suspect he cares not a jot if it sells or not. Indeed "hurrah" that his Caldo Verde record label issues all his work and obcessives may wish to note that there is a epic live album "Lost Verses" which contains most of the best songs from April and "Ghosts" often superior to the album versions. If you want "sun and fireworks" get the superb Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion or Grizzly Bears more thoughtful "Veckatimest". Alternatively on those times when you want to engage both your head and your heart "April" provides a melancholy yet very warm answer.




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5.0 out of 5 stars Full Unmasked Hysteria, 7 Jun 2008
By Colin Mccartney (Manchester, Lancashire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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An underrated music journalist once said: "trying to write about music is like trying to knit a gas jumper" (**** that **** about dancing to architecture).

And from an underrated music journalist to THE underrated artist of our time: every week I tune in to Jools Holland hoping Mr Kozelek might be on somewhere between Radiohead and Mary J Blige; every week I'm disappointed, yet not surprised. He'll be on someday and then everyone will kid on they've been digging his stuff since the days of God Forbid.

I'm not going to review this (I'm not worthy - you can try if you want to) other than to say I like it a lot...and there's a nice bit of banjo on "Unlit Hallway"...and remind me to seek out an ELP best of.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love is why I came here in the first place/ Love is now the reason I must go

Classic. Mark Kozelek is a genius. The dawn of Sun Kil Moon.


Best since Red House Painters I, if you ask me: which of course you don't.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Vocals let the album down
What is with Koselek's singing on this album? It's like he can't be bothered to enunciate the words and just slurs them half the time. Read more
Published 15 months ago by M. Brown

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh what joy
Another masterpiece from Mr Kozelek - he gets better with every passing year. This is just too perfect in parts, my head feels like it's about to shatter in Moorestown, and when... Read more
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