Mark Kozelek -- aka Sun Kil Moon -- had one of the busiest years of anybody in 2014, and he is already planning on giving fans a new album in 2015. In between pot shots at The War on Drugs, Kozelek promoted his critically acclaimed Benji -- released last February -- and began writing material for a new LP, which he predicts will have a fall 2015 release. "Luckily, I'm working on a new album now and hopefully that could be out by fall," Kozelek recently told The Omaha World-Herald, via Stereogum, adding that he is "halfway" finished with it.
"I respond to what's happening around me," he said. "Steve Shelley was telling me the other night, 'This next one needs to be really good,' and my hope is that it will be. But it's going to be what it's going to be. Different things are happening in my life now, so there is no doubt that it will be a very different album."
The 48-year-old singer also looked back on a calendar year to remember.
"2014 was great, but I'm working on my taxes now and looking back at how much I spent is hurting," he said. "But lots of good shows with a great band that sometimes included two drummers. I really liked singing Christmas songs in November/December. We were having guest singers and guest drummers on stage, and that was great. I was singing a lot, too, without guitar, and that was freeing."
SKM has a whole bunch of tour engagements left to play this year, including one Monday night, Jan. 26, in Lincoln, Nebraska. The current schedule will take him through a June 3 show over in Leeds, England.
Check out his August performance of "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" at the Pitchfork Music Festival:
