Sun Kil Moon – April Review
Sun Kil Moon aka Mark Kozelak released his disc titled “April” fittingly on April 1st of this year. I’ve had this album for some time and I remember getting this album because at one point I was quite captivated. I just put the album on hold for 4 months. Better late then never?
Sun Kil Moon takes from the genre of “slowcore”. By slowcore, it’s minimalist expression as you get slow paced tracks. Looking at the tracklisting, I was definitely intimidated. The first track is 9 minutes long, the second is 7! Just 11 tracks and almost 74 minutes of songs, talk about quantity. For the record, having listened to an incredible amount of music over the last year, I developed sort of a music ADD. It at least explains why forcing myself to listen to album took so damn long.
“April” is an enjoyable album despite being slow-paced and rather long. It’s more of a mood album for me but the arrangements, singing and lyrically it is solid. I can’t fault style in this case because if you just hate an album for being to slow or too loud then you are probably missing the point.
The main hurdle for listeners is to find your groove, mood with this album. You’ll find that there’s a lot to offer with this album even though at times I want to listen to much more extroverted music.
“April” is simply a tough album to review, it’s long and slow and it really demands for you to put effort into finding the art behind the near silence. It’s hard to come out with the right words with this type of album as you don’t really get things at face value and sometimes I find it hard to follow it lyrically. I just close my eyes and let the music flow into my ears.
I’m not going to bullshit you, it’s a good album if you give it a shot and that’s basically all I’ve got to say after 3 months of trying.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Thanks for finally getting this review out there. This is one of my favorite releases this year and I’m glad blogs like yours are giving it the attention it deserves. A heartbreaking masterpiece in my opinion that like many great things, takes time to fully appreciate.