Manafonistas

 

 
 
Niagara Falls, last night. Minus 23 Grad.
 

This is the title of the song that will end the forthcoming album Universal Themes by Sun Kil Moon. The title of the album may raise eyebrows – hopefully it’s laconic humour, self-irony, but the title of the last song sounds ultimately promising, and I cannot believe it is n o t an exceptional song. The problem is we’ll have to wait months to hear it. June. Even the six or seven Manafonistas at the Northern Sea won’t yet have it in their ears. But some readers may even not have heared Sun Kill Moon’s probably greatest album, Benji, from 2014, it’s about, well, universal themes, in this case, death, death, death, and love, love, love. Just listen to „Ben’s My Friend“. Mark Kozelek delivers his songs in a kind of stream-of-consciousness-mode. Interesting: when this song-writer started with the Red House Painters, I didn’t like the grey voice. Something has changed, and I really like to listen to every of his words and sentences. Why? The voice has turned from grey to blue, swinging deep blue.