Sun Kil Moon
“War on Drugs: Suck My Cock”
Digital Single
Already the subject of some eye-rolling #thinkpieces (I’m lookin’ at you Stereogum), Mark Kozelek’s hilariously Kozelekian new single “War on Drugs: Suck My Cock” is just as delightful as it sounds. The Koz keeps his jabs benign in the extreme, with lines like “bridge and tunnel people ’em some War on Drugs.” Listening to a guy who sings finger-picked folk songs about heartbreak, death, and long drives up the coast call another band “the whitest band I’ve ever heard” is worth the price of admission alone. Often accused of being humorless, it’s ironic that Kozelek is taking heat for this, especially when this song is just a more flagrant expression of the gallows humor that runs through all of his albums. More like this please, Mark.
