Tiny Cities

Infobox Album |
Name = Tiny Cities
Type = Cover album
Artist = Sun Kil Moon


Released = November 1, 2005
Recorded = Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 30:29
Label = Caldo Verde Records
Producer = Mark Kozelek
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:48q8g4hctv1z link]
* Billboard (highly favorable) [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/reviews/album_review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001391488 link]
* Pitchfork Media (3.0/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22256/Sun_Kil_Moon_Tiny_Cities link]
* Rolling Stone Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/sunkilmoon/albums/album/8654977/review/8719173/tiny_cities link]
Last album = "Ghosts of the Great Highway"
(2003)
This album = "Tiny Cities"
(2005)
Next album = "April"
(2008)

"Tiny Cities" is the second album by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon, released November 1, 2005. It features the same lineup from their debut release, "Ghosts of the Great Highway." This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005 (see 2005 in music).

The full-length album is composed of covers of songs by Modest Mouse, released on Kozelek's own label, Caldo Verde Records. Much like his AC/DC tribute "What's Next to the Moon", Kozelek has re-interpreted the often frenetic, noisy and rhythmically complex songs of Modest Mouse into a midtempo suite of delicate, acoustic guitar led ballads, with Kozelek's vocal stylings very much to the fore. From the first track "Exit Does Not Exist" to the closing "Ocean Breathes Salty," he seems to have fashioned a loose concept of travel and transition (physical and emotional) from the Modest Mouse discography.

Track listing

CD:

# "Exit Does Not Exist" – 1:24
# "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" – 3:13
# "Neverending Math Equation" – 2:53
# "Space Travel Is Boring" – 3:42
# "Dramamine" – 2:44
# "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" – 1:59
# "Four Fingered Fisherman" – 2:41
# "Grey Ice Water" – 2:32
# "Convenient Parking" – 1:56
# "Trucker's Atlas" – 2:49
# "Ocean Breathes Salty" – 4:36

Double 12" vinyl:

Side A:
# "Exit Does Not Exist" – 1:24
# "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" – 3:13
# "Neverending Math Equation" – 2:53
# "Space Travel Is Boring" – 3:42
# "Dramamine" – 2:44
# "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" – 1:59

Side B:
# "Four Fingered Fisherman" – 2:41
# "Grey Ice Water" – 2:32
# "Convenient Parking" – 1:56
# "Trucker's Atlas" – 2:49
# "Ocean Breathes Salty" – 4:36
# "Exit Does Not Exist" (Alternate Version) - 1:41

Bonus one-sided 12" EP (subtitled "Mark Kozelek - Live Acoustic"):
# "Trucker's Atlas" (Live Acoustic)
# "Neverending Math Equation" (Live Acoustic)
# "Convenient Parking" (Live Acoustic)
# "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" (Live Acoustic)
# "Four Fingered Fisherman" (Live Acoustic)
# "Dramamine" (Live Acoustic)
# "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" (Live Acoustic)

External links

* [http://www.sunkilmoon.com/ Sun Kil Moon] - official Sun Kil Moon web site
* [http://www.caldoverderecords.com/ Caldo Verde Records]
* [http://www.sadreminders.com Sad Reminders] - Unofficial Mark Kozelek/Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters fansite