Bleep

Before he was making headlines as Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek was the frontman and principle songwriter of San Francisco alternative rock group Red House Painters. Between 1992 and 1995, Red House Painters released four albums through 4AD that introduced the world to Kozelek’s singular songwriting and intensely autobiographical lyrical styles. Having been out of print for some 20-odd years now, 4AD have collected those four records together for a long-overdue reissue series, bringing together the Painters’ raw, demo-like debut Down Colorful Hill, their two self-titled albums released back-to-back in 1993, and their stripped-back final album for the label Ocean Beach, packaged alongside the shorter Shock Me EP.