Sun Kil Moon Release April In… April

Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon folk project will release the appropriately titled April on April 1.

The disc will hit stores through Kozelek's own Caldo Verde label, which also recently released the self-titled debut album from Retribution Gospel Choir, the latest project from Low frontman Alan Sparhawk. April is the first original Sun Kil Moon studio release since 2003's Ghosts Of The Great Highway debut. It features guest appearances from Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie "Prince" Billy) and Death Cab For Cutie vocalist/guitarist Ben Gibbard. The entire album can be previewed on the band's MySpace page.

Kozelek formed Sun Kil Moon in 2002 as a folk side project to his slowcore band Red House Painters, with whom he's recorded six full-length albums and an EP. The group, named after Korean boxer Sung-Kil Moon, also include Red House Painters drummer Anthony Koutsos. Tiny Cities, an album of Modest Mouse covers, followed two years later.

As a solo artist, Kozelek released What's Next To The Moon, an entire album of AC/DC covers, in 2001. His catalogue also includes two live releases.

Nights Of Passed Over, a 256-page hardback book featuring Kozelek lyrics from all of his various projects as well as concert set lists, will be published in a limited run of 2,500 copies on April 1. The book will come with a 12-song CD titled Nights LP featuring live and rare versions of Kozelek songs recorded from 1996 through 2007.

Although Sun Kil Moon don't have any tour plans on the horizon, you can catch Kozelek solo at Toronto's Lee's Palace on June 10.

Here are the tracks on April:

"Lost Verses"
"The Light"
"Lucky Man"
"Unlit Hallway"
"Heron Blue"
"Moorestown"
"Harper Road"
"Tonight The Sky"
"Like The River"
"Tonight In Bilbao"
"Blue Orchids"

Here are the songs on Nights LP from Nights Of Passed Over:

"Michigan" (live at Union Chapel, 2007)
"Drop" (live at Union Chapel, 2007)
"Heron Blue" (drum version, 2007)
"Leo And Luna" (2006)
"Carry Me Ohio" (jam version, 2002)
"Gentle Moon" (live at Fnac, 2002)
"Duk Koo Kim" (10-inch version, 2001)
"Wop A Din Din" (live in Lisbon, 2001)
"Metropol 47" (demo version, 1999)
"Cruiser" (Malmo version, 1999)
"Smokey" (demo version, 1997)
"River" (KCRW version, 1996)