In 2017, Mark Kozelek has released a double Sun Kil Moon album, a solo EP, a collaborative LP with Jesu, another collaborative LP with Parquet Courts’ Sean Yeaton, and a third collaborative LP with Ben Boye and Jim White. The year’s not even over yet, and he’s already announced two more Sun Kil Moon albums in a lengthy holiday message on his official website. “One of the albums was recorded in hotel rooms in San Francisco throughout the year, with mobile gear, mostly recorded on a 1960 Fender Jazzmaster guitar,” he writes. “The album was recorded at hotels to take a break from the dark, windowless atmosphere of studios, and to see how atypical recording environments would affect my music. My guess is that the album title and track listing will be announced by February, and I’ll likely release the album early next summer.”

The other album will, meanwhile, “was written during a Sun Kil Moon tour in November of this year, partly recorded in Copenhagen during that tour, and also at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco after returning home in early December,” Kozelek explains. “The lyrics were written on trains and planes between those concert dates and the music was written quickly when we arrived at soundchecks in various cities. The 3 non-original songs on the album include a cover of the Partridge Family’s “Come On Get Happy” in honor of the late David Cassidy, a new, amped up cover version of ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Singer’ by AC/DC, in honor of the late Malcolm Young (and features Jordan Cook from Reignwolf on guitar), and another track is ‘Chapter 87′ of John Connolly’s novel He, set to music. I’m mixing the album in Buffalo, NY, at GCR Studios, as I write this, and will likely release it in early November next year, as the atmosphere of the album is heavily November themed.”

He’s also “just signed off on final score work for a beautiful James Franco directed film The Pretenders.” Read the full note below.

Mark Kozelek's 2017 holiday message is posted to https://t.co/vBxe9tRlg6. pic.twitter.com/aX8v6icqKW — Sad Reminders (@sadreminders) December 23, 2017