Music review: Mark Kozelek | The Finally LP

On his latest album The Finally LP, Mark Kozelek compiles a collection of material written by other artists, bookended by two previously unreleased instrumentals. Included here are delicate renditions of songs by bands like AC/DC, Low, Husker Du and Dom Leone, among others. Kozelek’s relaxed finger picking interspersed throughout, he offers stripped down acoustic-folk meanderings as foundations for his haunting baritone - a drawl of a voice that cuts delicately across the intimate settings provided in this, and each of his other albums as the frontman for Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon.

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Send in the clowns - a track from The Finally LP

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Throughout these particular tracks, it is easy to detect their raw production - creaking chairs and unpolished vocal tunings dot the diverse, intentionally sparse landscape. Many of the songs end abruptly, as though part of a mix-tape put together by Kozelek himself. And in a sense, this album quickly reveals itself as a novelty compilation for those fans who would be willing to listen to Mark Kozelek sing nearly anything.

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