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The first of the group's two eponymously titled 1993 efforts is a sprawling, remarkable set distinguished by Mark Kozelek's continuing maturation as a songwriter far removed from the uniform darkness of Down Colorful Hill, Red House Painters offers an expansion of both emotional and musical possibilities. Working outward from the cutting Mistress included as both a Spartan piano ballad and as a gauzy rock number the record moves through a shifting, impressionistic backdrop of textures and sounds from the luminous folk pop of Grace Cathedral Park to the epic dissonance of the gut wrenching Strawberry Hill, the songs resonate with depth and poignancy, and rank as Kozelek's most fully realized collection of compositions.
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