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10.0
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The Independent
One of the truest, wisest albums you’ll ever hear
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10.0
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Pretty Much Amazing
Heartbreaking and raw, Benji is Sun Kil Moon’s best album to date, and indisputably cements Mark Kozelek’s reputation as one of the finest storytellers in contemporary indie music
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9.2
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Pitchfork
There are 11 songs on Sun Kil Moon’s astonishing sixth LP Benji, and in nearly all of them, somebody dies... It’s actually Kozelek’s least depressing and most life-affirming record
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9.0
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Uncut
In many ways, Benji is a traditionally confessional singer-songwriter album that exposes more than most. Print edition only
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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Mark Kozelek is at least as piercing and persuasive as in his best output over the last two decades
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9.0
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No Ripcord
His most intimate work yet, thoroughly documenting definitive moments that marked his past and continue to haunt his present
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9.0
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The 405
It scores highly because it weaves all these scenarios and tales over subtle yet richly varied music. For Mark Kozelek this is yet another career highlight
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9.0
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Fact
A record whose main theme may be death, but whose power comes from Kozelek’s vivid celebration of life
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9.0
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Drowned In Sound
Benji contains some of the most evocative songs about mortality and youth that have ever been written
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8.3
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Consequence Of Sound
Kozelek’s transparency never fails to disappoint or miss the mark, and his low delivery and wounded gutter poetry strike an even more personal chord this time around.
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8.0
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Spin
A gob-smacking collection of bare-bones, gut-punch, all-in songwriting
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8.0
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PopMatters
Benji is the sound of an artist giving his heart to his fans and saying, “Do with it what you will.” That kind of vulnerability is a rare quality in the music business and as such, should be revered
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8.0
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The Observer
Might well be this difficult artist's most direct work, possibly the most devastating this career melancholic has ever penned
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8.0
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Mojo
Yet another from the unstoppable Mark Kozelek. Print edition only
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8.0
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NME
Kozelek's songs match a mordant sensibility with a wry wit that remains unblunted by the passage of time
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8.0
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The FT
Musically it’s downbeat and stripped back, with Kozelek delicately picking his guitar and delivering discursive vocals
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Mark Kozelek's remarkable sixth album as Sun Kil Moon feels less like a collection of songs than a series of eulogies delivered in real time
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6.8
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Paste Magazine
The cumulative effect of Benji, is a weird sensory overload. There’s just so much packed into each song
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6.0
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The Music
Not really his strongest material, but still nothing less than a revolution for Kozelek, truth be told
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6.0
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All Music
It's so intimate, the listener is, by definition, a voyeur
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6.0
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Q
Not his most graceful, but certainly his most strikingly personal. Print edition only
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6.0
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The Quietus
Benji is disorganised as hell, but that's okay; life isn't always prosaic. And no matter how plainly you put it, death doesn't often make sense
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5.5
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Under The Radar
Overall, your enjoyment of this album will depend on your patience and appreciation for Kozelek's idiosyncrasies. Sometimes he pulls it off wonderfully, and other times listeners might wish he'd left a little more to the imagination
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