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4.0 out of 5 stars over-analyzing stuff is fun!, Jun 19 2004

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quinn (illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Audio CD)

a seemingly complete aesthetic vision. i was immediately taken by the texture and loosness of the insturmentation- especially the guitar work b/c i like guitars. His good singing voice is used to haunting, sad, streaming, fractured, personalized effect. (I dunno, thats a major compliment considering I"m a fan of Cat Power, Josh Groban, C. Aguilera). So many hook melodies on this album, its not even funny. The coup de taut was finding lyrics on the web. I don't understand the meaning, but I really appreciate the boxing, sea, wandering imagery. Drove home the feeling of the album to me. Is it just me or is this album kinda like an elitisticlly artsy version of some of Los Lobos' songs? The eukele sounding stuff reminds me of Los Lobos softer stuff. Los Lobos blows away Parrot song when it comes to rocking out though.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Some brilliant moments, but still leaves me wanting ..., Jun 17 2004

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"pootkao" (Winnipeg, MB, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Audio CD)

I was really excited to pick up this disc, being a long-time Kozalek fan. Like other people, I had a really difficult time getting into it at first...I've had it for a couple months now and its grown on me nicely, but I still feel that its missing some of the masochisticly romantic magic that can be found Revelation Big Sur, Mistress, Summer Dress, Love Hungry Man, etc.

Where the album scores big points is production. Its nice to hear Mark do something thats not so sloppy. The production is clean and the guitars sound great and it works because it never gets in the way of the songs.

Oh, and "Lily & Parrots" is the best rocker he's ever written.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply Enchanting, Aug 27 2007

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E. Haensel (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Audio CD)

While Ghosts of the Great Highway is the first record by Sun Lil Moon-the name of a Korean Boxer-it is far from the first effort by lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter Mark Kozelek. Kozelek produced four albums with the Red House Painters, before embarking on a solo career that lead to the formation of Sun Kil Moon.

Fans of either the Red House Painters or Mark's solo work should absolutely get this album, it demonstrates a vast improvement on Mark's already accomplished and individual sound; it is his deepest, most instrumentally layered, and cleanest album to date. And yet, in a strange way, this pinnacle effort is also probably his most accessible album.

No where does the clarity of his classicalesc finger picking get any better than on songs like 'gentle moon' and 'floating', nor is there a better slow heavy Kozelek rock tune than the epic Salvador Sanchez.

Lyrically this maybe Mark's least straight forward album. On the surface the album is all about dead boxers, dead relationships and car crashes. But underneath, in the resonances between each song you can begin to discover the true meaning of the title, and unfold a really cohesive presentation of Mark's sometimes quirky, sometimes sad, sometimes luminous way of looking at the world. Truly it is an ontological album, scraping deftly into the meaning of life.

This is Mark's only cohesive concept album, an album that required a refined application of the whole of his vast array of talents.

Ghosts of the Great Highway is a complete success, an album that will get better over the course of a hundred listens, unfolding its depth of meaning one petal at a time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
At first the voice is "off" and the music too low key, but then after the first time the album grows and grows with each listen. Read more

Published on Jan 30 2009 by Christopher Adams

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal
I dont hand out many 5 star reviews. This is absolutely wonderful start to finish. He's returned with a album that still sounds like Mark Kozelec but is different than RHP and... Read more

Published on May 27 2004