Released November 4, 2014. Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols Tracklist. 1. Christmas Time Is Here Lyrics.

Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols. Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols is a Christmas album by American singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek. It was released on November 4, 2014, through Kozelek's own record label, Caldo Verde Records. All songs were recorded by Mark Kozelek in November–December 2013 in San Francisco. The album was announced in December 2013.

And so this is Christmas, and what has Mark Kozelek done? If you’ve kept abreast of the 47-year old’s antics this year – he dismissed an audience in North Carolina as fucking hillbillies and started a beef with The War On Drugs by labelling the Philadelphia band beer commercial lead-guitar shit at a festival in Ottawa in September – you might be surprised to learn that it’s not writing a song. From the moment it was announced late last year, the concept of a Mark Kozelek Christmas album made a wonderfully contrarian kind of sense: the former Red House Painters frontman is one of the least festive figures imaginable, which in the grand tradition of Seuss and Dickens, makes him an ideal candidate.

Kozelek expanded on this idea in 2001, releasing a full-length album composed solely of AC/DC covers titled What's Next to the Moon. These new arrangements sounded so unlike the originals that a KCRW radio executive insisted that the title track was a Leonard Cohen song. This was not the first time Kozelek had drastically re-arranged others' material to his own ends. Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols (2014). Dreams of Childhood (2015) (with Nicolás Pauls). Yellow Kitchen (2017) (with Sean Yeaton). Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White (2017) (with Ben Boye and Jim White).

Sings Christmas Carols. Mark Kozelek - O Come All Ye Faithful 02:06. Mark Kozelek - Christmas Time Is Here 03:57. Mark Kozelek - The First Noel 04:52. Mark Kozelek - Silent Night 02:58. Mark Kozelek - I Believe in Father Christmas 02:45. Mark Kozelek - O Christmas Tree 02:55. Mark Kozelek - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 03:10. Mark Kozelek - 2,000 Miles 02:49. Mark Kozelek - What Child Is This 02:44.

This is the holiday release of the year.

Anyone familiar with Mark Kozelek-the leader of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon-knows what his voice can bring to a song. His love for covering other people’s material (AC/DC, Modest Mouse, Simon & Garfunkel) often leads him into unorthodox territory, but this album of well-known Christmas carols (plus versions of The Pretenders’ 2000 Miles and Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas ) is exactly as it should be: honest, straightforward, and no-nonsense.

Sings Christmas Carols, 2014. Christmas Time Is Here, 03:57. Do You Hear What I Hear, 02:45. O Come All Ye Faithful, 02:06. O Christmas Tree, 02:55. Away in a Manger, 01:58. O Little Town of Bethlehem, 02:54.