“Like most of the crackpot theories I've come up with to explain and perhaps absolve Mark Kozelek over the past six months, I've had to keep this one to myself. But here goes: I go back to the shocking shift towards full disclosure on Among the Leaves and everything that's come after—the awe-inspiring prolificacy and empathy captured on his underrated 2013 collaborative LPs, the simultaneous morbid”