When performing others’ material, Mark Kozelek has always been stronger the more extreme the reinterpretation (see his melancholic versions of the Cars, Yes, and John Denver). But this odds-and-ends comp is unusually straightforward.
More on SPIN.com: >> Artist of the Day Mark Kozelek His lovely rendition of Low’s “Lazy” transforms an angsty lament into an earnest plea for change; and while Kozelek’s take on AC/DC’s “If You Want Blood” boasts a revelatory rearrangement, it sounds strangely toothless beside a sincere internalization of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns.”
