Album Rating: 3.5

If this is indicative of the quality of Koz stuff outside his major classics then watch me give the man's discog four 4.5s and everything else is 3 or below.

Album Rating: 4.5

‘Lost Verses’ has that 10% too much cheese in the mix for me to give it the 5 out of 5 track rating

no way

lost verses and moorestown are my two favs

Album Rating: 3.5

Not sure “Lost Verses” is quite a 5/5 but it’s a real beaut for sure - that outro is amazing. If anything though it kind of highlights the issues I have with a lot of the rest of this. It has a great central melody and riff and while they don’t change much for the first 8 minutes there enough subtle shifts and builds throughout it to keep it interesting while still being a nice drift. Then that outro comes in an elevated it even further. Great songwriting there. Despite being the second longest thing here it feels shorter than some of the 4-5 min songs do.

Album Rating: 4.5

A few growers on this - Like the River took about three years to make any impact on me but now I love it, prob top 5 or 6 here

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah I can feel it growing, I'm probably judging a bit too soon.



At the very least this is never close to unpleasant so should be some decent background listening, and maybe it'll set its hooks in.



Koz's discog was/is gonna have to slip somewhere for me. Now I'm in the more interesting part in a way; I've gone through the biggest works in DCH, Rollercoaster, Ghosts, and Benji which I was pretty destined to love but now I can start to carve out my own opinions.

Album Rating: 4.5

Ocean Beach some consider his best/most important album too



You haven’t ‘Drop’ped yet

Album Rating: 4.5

Also some swear by Admiral because it’s arguably his recorded peak as a guitarist

Album Rating: 4.0

yea I'm one of those that swears by Admiral



though that's where he starts his rambling phase, it's nowhere near as bad as Among the Leaves got. and yea his flamenco influence there shines along with his melancholic phrasings, it's so good.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah I know there are still some popular ones left - from what I've seen almost every one of his major albums has its big fans, I only meant that those four I mentioned (maybe the former three more so than Benji) are the one's that pretty much everybody agrees are great.

Admiral club, count me in

Still trying to figure out just how good this actually is beyond Lost Verses.

Album Rating: 4.5

it depends if you actively enjoy 'boring Koz' - because some artists for me I don't mind kicking back and chilling while they're horizontal and noodling and not really doing anything too wild or wildly different



I mean I even dig Old Ramon which is in all reality quite an incredibly boring album by most measures but I like the atmosphere, bit similar to this



Try the Void/Between Days/Cruiser test - if you think that three song run is enjoyable you're earned your Kozelek wings, nothing should hold too much fear for you

Album Rating: 4.5

'Still trying to figure out just how good this actually is beyond Lost Verses.'



The last three song run I prefer to Lost Verses by a not insignificant margin

Album Rating: 4.5

"Lost Verses" is my favorite here but the last two tracks approach it in quality for me

Album Rating: 4.0

This album is all about Lost Verses, Moorestown and Tonight in Bilbao for me. The rest is nice background music

Album Rating: 3.5

Ok this is starting to click more on 5th listen. I really dig the guitar work in "Blue Heron", is more of that what I have to look forward to in Admiral Fell Promises?

Album Rating: 3.5

Ok so my thoughts have settled a bit - this is good stuff for sure but doesn't super super impress me on the whole. Just feels like a lot of songs go on unnecessarily long (though ironically the longer songs are among my favorites) and several are kind of filler.

Ranked/rated currently:

1. "Lost Verses" (4.5)

2. "The Light" (4)

3. "Heron Blue (4)

4. "Tonight In Bilbao" (4)

5. "Blue Orchids" (4)

6. "Moorestown" (3.5)

7. "Tonight the Sky" (3.5)

8. "Unlit Hallway" (3)

9. "Like the River" (3)

10. "Lucky Man" (3)

11. "Harper Road" (2.5)

bilbao rules so hard

Album Rating: 3.5

It's great but I would say only in a kind of par for the course way compared to most of the Koz I've heard so far.

I'm probably still being a bit unfair to this but it's hard not to feel a tad lukewarm coming to this when I rated all the first four Koz albums I heard 4.5, with at least two of those being near-5s already.

Album Rating: 4.5

I prefer Bilbao to Duk Koo