Jesu/Sun Kil Moon

Jesu / Sun Kil Moon
Studio album by Jesu and Sun Kil Moon
Released January 21, 2016
Recorded Wales and the United States
Genre
Length 79:39
Language English
Label Caldo Verde, Rough Trade
Producer Justin Broadrick and Mark Kozelek
Sun Kil Moon chronology
Universal Themes
(2015)
Jesu / Sun Kil Moon
(2016)
Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
(2017)
Mark Kozelek chronology
Dreams of Childhood
(2015)
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
(2016)
Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites
(2016)
Jesu chronology
Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came
(2013)
Jesu / Sun Kil Moon
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.5/10[1]
Metacritic75/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Consequence of SoundB-[4]
Pitchfork7.5/10[5]
Slant Magazine[6]

Jesu / Sun Kil Moon is a collaborative studio album by American indie folk act Sun Kil Moon and British experimental act Jesu, released on January 21, 2016 on Caldo Verde Records and Rough Trade.[7][8][9] The album also features guest musicians Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie "Prince" Billy), members of Low, Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, and Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse. Jesu and Sun Kil Moon including drummer Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth played six shows in February and March 2016 to support the album.[10]

Background

The collaborative album was first hinted at in an interview with Mark Kozelek in the January 2015 issue of Uncut magazine,[11] and officially announced on April 27, 2015, by Jesu frontman Justin Broadrick via Twitter. In the tweet Broadrick said, "A lot of questions about a new Jesu record, I've been working on it for some time, it's a collaboration LP between Sun Kil Moon and Jesu."

The album grew out of a long-standing relationship between Broadrick and Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek. Kozelek first approached Broadrick in 2007 about a release through his label, after being impressed by a live performance in San Francisco. In 2009 Jesu released Opiate Sun through Caldo Verde Records (a record label owned by Kozelek), and later the same year Broadrick interviewed Kozelek for the Caldo Verde website. In 2013, Kozelek covered Broadrick's band Godflesh's song "Like Rats". Broadrick and Godflesh are mentioned in "The Possum", the opening track from Sun Kil Moon's 2015 album Universal Themes.

On October 5, 2015, the track "America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger" was made available for streaming; on October 21 the track "Exodus" was available for streaming, pre-orders of the album's CDs were enabled, and Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse was added to the album's guesting musicians. On January 15, 2016, a week before the album's official January 22 release date, the project was available to stream in full on Sun Kil Moon's website.

Track listing

All tracks written by Mark Kozelek and Justin Broadrick, except where noted[12]. 

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Good Morning My Love"    7:04
2. "Carondelet"    8:36
3. "A Song of Shadows"    6:19
4. "Last Night I Rocked the Room Like Elvis and Had Them Laughing Like Richard Pryor"  Kozelek, Broadrick, Victor Rinaldi 8:03
5. "Fragile" (contains lyric extractions from "Onward" originally performed by Yes)Kozelek, Chris Squire 5:57
6. "Father's Day"    6:12
7. "Sally"    6:27
8. "America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger"  Kozelek, Broadrick, Tracy from Sheffield 7:15
9. "Exodus"  Kozelek, Chris Connolly 9:45
10. "Beautiful You"    14:01

Personnel

Musicians[12]
Production[12]

References

  1. "Jesu / Sun Kil Moon by Jesu / Sun Kil Moon reviews | Any Decent Music". www.anydecentmusic.com. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  2. "Reviews for Jesu / Sun Kil Moon". Metacritic. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  3. Paul Simpson (January 26, 2016). "Jesu / Sun Kil Moon — Jesu / Sun Kil Moon". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  4. Schaults, Janine (21 January 2016). "Sun Kil Moon and Jesu – Sun Kil Moon/Jesu". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  5. Stosuy, Brandon (19 February 2016). "Jesu / Sun Kil Moon: Jesu / Sun Kil Moon". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  6. "Slant review".
  7. "Sun Kil Moon and Jesu Share "America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger"". Pitchfork. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  8. "Sun Kil Moon & Jesu – "America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek And John Dillinger"". Stereogum. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  9. "Jesu / Sun Kil Moon". www.sunkilmoon.com. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  10. "Caldo Verde Records". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  11. "Untitled Document". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  12. 1 2 3 "Jesu/Sun Kil Moon - Jesu/Sun Kil Moon (CD, Album) at Discogs". Retrieved 31 May 2016.
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