“The songwriter’s latest great long ode to himself is at once bloated and transcendent, boring and mesmerizing.”
“Mark Kozelek's latest with Ben Boye and Jim White is an improvement on its cluttered and improvised predecessor, but a lack of evolution on the songwriting front sees Kozelek chasing after ideas he's captured on prior releases with more emotion and wit.”
“There’s an old episode of Family Guy where the Griffins encounter Randy Newman while roaming an apocalyptic post-Y2K world (even the premise feels ancient by now). Newman sits at a piano under an apple tree, seemingly among the only things to have survived, and makes up songs that describe his surroundings and things that are happening in real time. That’s basically what Mark Kozelek is doing on h”
