Jesu/Sun Kil Moon

Mark Kozelek first hinted at the collaborative album in an interview in the January 2015 issue of Uncut magazine,[5] and officially announced on April 27, 2015, by Jesu frontman Justin Broadrick via Twitter. In the tweet Broadrick said, "A lot of questions about a new Jesu record, I've been working on it for some time, it's a collaboration LP between Sun Kil Moon and Jesu."

The album grew out of a long-standing relationship between Broadrick and Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek. Kozelek first approached Broadrick in 2007 about a release through his label, after being impressed by a live performance in San Francisco. In 2009 Jesu released Opiate Sun through Caldo Verde Records (a record label owned by Kozelek), and later the same year Broadrick interviewed Kozelek for the Caldo Verde website. In 2013, Kozelek covered Broadrick's band Godflesh's song "Like Rats". Broadrick and Godflesh are mentioned in "The Possum", the opening track from Sun Kil Moon's 2015 album Universal Themes.

On October 5, 2015, the track "America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger" was made available for streaming; on October 21 the track "Exodus" was available for streaming, pre-orders of the album's CDs were enabled, and Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse was added to the album's guesting musicians. On January 15, 2016, a week before the album's official January 22 release date, the project was available to stream in full on Sun Kil Moon's website.

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.5/10[6]
Metacritic	75/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
Consequence of Sound	B−[9]
Drowned in Sound	7/10[10]
Pitchfork	7.5/10[11]
The Skinny	[12]
Slant Magazine	[13]
Spectrum Culture	[14]
Uncut	8/10[15]

Jesu/Sun Kil Moon was positively received by critics.

Musicians

• Mark Kozelek – vocals, nylon string guitar on "Fragile"
• Justin Broadrick – all instruments (on all tracks except "Fragile" and "Exodus")
• Chris Connolly – keyboards on "Exodus"
• Will Oldham – guest vocals on "Fragile"
• Rachel Goswell – guest vocals on "Father's Day", "Exodus", and "Beautiful You"
• Alan Sparhawk – guest vocals on "Exodus"
• Mimi Parker – guest vocals on "Exodus"
• Isaac Brock – guest vocals on "Beautiful You"

Production

• Produced by Justin Broadrick and Mark Kozelek
• Recorded by Justin Broadrick, Will Chason, and Nathan Winter
• Additional recording by Steve Clarke and Jeremy Sherrer
• Mixed by Will Chason and Nathan Winter
• Cover photo of Mark Kozelek and Macha Kouznetsova by Steve Shelley
• Back cover photo by Mark Kozelek
• Inside photo of Broadrick and Kozelek by Mike Stevens
• Sleeve design by Brian Azer at Et Cetera