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Pickles and peanut butter. Peanuts and Pespi. Pepsi and wine.
Sometimes unexpected combinations turn out to be the best, and that’s certainly been the case with Perils From the Sea, a collaboration released in April between singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle.
You probably recognize San Diegan LaValle from his downbeat electronic solo-project The Album Leaf and his time with euphoric instrumental post-rock weavers Tristeza (not to mention stints with The Crimson Curse, The Locust, Swing Kids, and GoGoGo Airheart).
On Perils From the Sea, LaValle trades the orchestral, layered textures of The Album Leaf’s recent work for ambient beats more akin to Jimmy Tamborello’s sucrose backbone of The Postal Service while melancholic storyteller Kozelek delivers unassuming recollections that feel like an account from an old friend.
His rambling, nostalgic narratives – like a continental Johnny Cash – name-check everywhere from Tijuana to Orange County to San Francisco’s Tenderloin to Tel Aviv to West Palm Beach to Tokyo.
Highlights include:
1936 - a subdued hip-hop cadence that somehow turns a trip to Dairy Queen into shimmering poetry.
Gustavo - looking back on a man he once knew, Kozelek reminisces about a phone call from Tijuana asking for money to buy a coyote.
Baby in Death I Can Rest Next to Your Grave – chimerical arpeggios reminiscent of LaValle’s time with Tristeza.
He Always Felt Like Dancing – a devastatingly beautiful memoir.
Here Come More Perils From the Sea – pretty much everything sad you can think of tied together in a heart-breaking one-last-look-goodbye moment of tragedy/bliss, singing “Why does the universe make us sick and frail? Why did the universe fail?”
Somehow the Wonder of Life Prevails – another song about old friends that finds the beauty in terrible turns of events.
Kozelek will be touring Europe and select U.S. cities, but no word yet on a San Diego date for the unforeseen duo.
Pickles and peanut butter. Peanuts and Pespi. Pepsi and wine.
Sometimes unexpected combinations turn out to be the best, and that’s certainly been the case with Perils From the Sea, a collaboration released in April between singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle.
You probably recognize San Diegan LaValle from his downbeat electronic solo-project The Album Leaf and his time with euphoric instrumental post-rock weavers Tristeza (not to mention stints with The Crimson Curse, The Locust, Swing Kids, and GoGoGo Airheart).
On Perils From the Sea, LaValle trades the orchestral, layered textures of The Album Leaf’s recent work for ambient beats more akin to Jimmy Tamborello’s sucrose backbone of The Postal Service while melancholic storyteller Kozelek delivers unassuming recollections that feel like an account from an old friend.
His rambling, nostalgic narratives – like a continental Johnny Cash – name-check everywhere from Tijuana to Orange County to San Francisco’s Tenderloin to Tel Aviv to West Palm Beach to Tokyo.
Highlights include:
1936 - a subdued hip-hop cadence that somehow turns a trip to Dairy Queen into shimmering poetry.
Gustavo - looking back on a man he once knew, Kozelek reminisces about a phone call from Tijuana asking for money to buy a coyote.
Baby in Death I Can Rest Next to Your Grave – chimerical arpeggios reminiscent of LaValle’s time with Tristeza.
He Always Felt Like Dancing – a devastatingly beautiful memoir.
Here Come More Perils From the Sea – pretty much everything sad you can think of tied together in a heart-breaking one-last-look-goodbye moment of tragedy/bliss, singing “Why does the universe make us sick and frail? Why did the universe fail?”
Somehow the Wonder of Life Prevails – another song about old friends that finds the beauty in terrible turns of events.
Kozelek will be touring Europe and select U.S. cities, but no word yet on a San Diego date for the unforeseen duo.