Essential New Music: Red House Painters’ “Red House Painters”

“So much that I can’t say to you,” Mark Kozelek croons on “Drop,” a raw, ethereal epic toward the end of the Red House Painters’ peerless 1995 emotional leveler Ocean Beach. “My voice shakes from the hurt that I hide.” Of course, by this point in Kozelek’s career, it was actually very fucking difficult to … Continue reading Essential New Music: Red House Painters’ “Red House Painters”