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"Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood" is the eighth solo studio album by American indie folk act Sun Kil Moon, released on 17 February 2017 on Caldo Verde Records.
Upon its release, Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album currently holds an average score of 62, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Reviewed by pastemagazine.
The most interesting thing going on here musically is Kozelek’s near total eschewing of traditional song structures. These 10-minute odes are unpredictable, sometimes becoming unrecognizable as the same track within three or four minutes. And as he’s become less of a poet and more of a chronicler, he’s also become less of an ornate orchestrator and more a minimalist. There are times when Kozelek soundtracks his observations with little more than repetitive bass and drums.
Each new Sun Kil Moon album both further acquaints and distances the listener with Mark Kozelek. His life story is known to anyone who’ll listen to him but what remains unknown is how he became so comfortable relating every element of his day. His age, weight gain and romantic missteps figure next to international tragedies and memories of great concerts he’s been to. This is ultimately a record about the limitless ways human beings will find to make sense of and talk about the weirdness of our everyday lives.
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