{"id":1046,"date":"2010-08-17T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:12:05","slug":"sun-kil-moon-admiral-fell-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/sun-kil-moon-admiral-fell-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"SUN KIL MOON + Admiral Fell Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Admiral-Fell-Promises-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1047\" title=\"Admiral-Fell-Promises-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Admiral-Fell-Promises-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\" alt=\"Admiral Fell Promises\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Admiral-Fell-Promises-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Admiral-Fell-Promises-M-Review-JulyAugust2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>UN KIL MOON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Admiral Fell Promises<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Caldo Verde]<\/p>\n<p>This fourth offering by Sun Kil Moon, the pseudonym for former Red House Painters leader Mark Kozelek, is a more subdued affair than previous efforts. The opener, \u201cAlesund,\u201d begins with a meticulously arpeggiated guitar underpinning a wistful vocal about an earthly muse. Similarly, the atmospheric \u201cHalf Moon Bay\u201d conjures a bleak coastal landscape before winding its way to a long rubato guitar coda. Kozelek\u2019s reedy, unadorned vocals evoke a similarly muted, intimate mood on everything here, such as the rhythmically varied suite \u201cThe Leaning Tree\u201d and the darkly sentimental \u201cAustralian Winter.\u201d (\u201cThe ocean beneath me is loneliness,\u201d he sings.) With this low-key approach, <em>Admiral Fell Promises<\/em> is a lovely example of the old dictum \u201cless is more.\u201d With usually no more than a deftly and melodically played guitar paired with some beautifully understated singing, Kozelek creates a chilling but beautiful song cycle best enjoyed with the lights off. \u2014Bob Cannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUN KIL MOON Admiral Fell Promises [Caldo Verde] This fourth offering by Sun Kil Moon, the pseudonym for former Red House Painters leader Mark Kozelek, is a more subdued affair than previous efforts. The opener, \u201cAlesund,\u201d begins with a meticulously arpeggiated guitar underpinning a wistful vocal about an earthly muse. Similarly, the atmospheric \u201cHalf Moon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[636,196,637,623,635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}