Kurt Vile... new on Gulcher.

Yes, he rules...haven't heard the Gulcher CD but I plan to

liking this
igottafreewayinmind

he is a nice young man, such a nice boy

space forklift

SOOOOooooo.....

The London shows next week are with War On Drugs, which he's apparently a member of. What's the deal with them dudes? Haven't heard 'em. Lookslike they've got an ep on Secretly Canadian, which makes me think 'literate indie'. Hopefully not.

Still no Gulcher thread to speak of.

Who's this Meercaz dude?? Not a reissue, despite the look of it.
http://home.earthlink.net/~slippytown/meercazcd.jpg

There's a review and a song on dusted
http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4827
sounds pretty good

Really love the "God Is Saying This To You" LP. Really, really loving it. The new one on Woodsist is good too, but not as cosmic-epic at first few listens.

What else is worthwhile that I can find on the LP format?

So, how is the Hunchback EP? Is it... not as good as I want it to be?

some info here

http://blastitude.blogspot.com/2009/03/kurt-vile-violators-hunchback-ep-12.html

thanks for the link, sleeve.

funny triple-dose of reviews there. can't say i feel too enticed to check out the hunchback ep, based on the review as well as opinions of a few friends.

This guy is great. At first I wasn't sold but the man and his work definitely fall under the "grower" category. At least, to me. Excited about his Matador debut.

A washingtonpost.com writer who is always touting various indie dudes keeps hyping this guy. Let me what I can find on youtube

best record is def "god is saying this to you."

also, he appears playing trumpet and acoustic guitar on the new blues control album.

I've been listening to this guy a lot over the last week or two. He's a little uneven, I think, but songs like "My Sympathy" and "My Best Friends (Don't Even Pass This), which are both on God is Saying This to You, more than make up for any shortcomings.

A new LP coming out soon, Childish Prodigy, has leaked on whatwhatinthebutt.cd for those who may be interested. I haven't listened yet but regardless I'll definitely have him in mind as one of my favorite new artists of 2009. His other (more popular? I honestly don't know) band, The War On Drugs, is decent too. He plays guitar in that band, but you wouldn't necessarily connect the dots unless someone told you. The War On Drugs is kind of dominated by the singer's voice, which is a bit like a more tuneful Dylan. The lyrics are kind of hit or miss, but there are moments ("There is no Urgency") where they hit a kind of stride.

heh, the influences Vile lists on his myspace page unsurprisingly do a better job of describing his sound than I could ever do:

room to live, love to burn, street hassle, street legal, beat street, bully of the bayou, heartland feeling, yellow schwinn stingray, roots train number 1 (extended mix), cocaine in my brain, juicy juicy juice, strawberry wine, violent students, richie records, ag tonez, tusk, ccr, neil young, crazyhorse, suicide, the dead c, charlie patton, bertha lee, blind lemon jefferson, mississippi john hurt, blind willie johnson, furry lewis, fred mcdowell, harry smith anthology, american primitives, etc, robert johnson, lightnin hopkins, john fahey, doc watson, hank williams, townse van zandt, bob dylan, bobby neuwirth, eat the document, the vu, lou, the stooges, iggy, the ramones, the stones, the kinks, cluster, morton subotnick, isoa tomita, the fall, kurt's garage, blue kangaroo and the rest of wattle & daub.

i really liked that war on drugs record. pretty curious about this one.

my sympathy is a great song

Constant Hitmaker is still my favorite.

saw two shows where this dude opened last week and missed him at both

I haven't listened to it yet. But yeah, actually I have you to thank for getting me to listen to him recently, I saw one of his songs on your KOPN playlist and was reminded that a friend of mine had recommended that I check him out.

xpost to trip maker

You should listen to that birthday show on the holy victrola blog, bro!
I turned 30 the minute it ended.

will listen. Happy b-day too :)

The "I've never been so insulted in my whole lieeefe! SHIT!" part on "Freak Train" kills me.

That song's a tranced-out grower for sure, and I'd love to see it done live (the YouTube clips of it played out look great); the two riffier tracks on Childish Prodigy seem a bit weak/clunky/standard rock-by-numbers to me, though ("Hunchback", "Monkey"), but then again I didn't like the Hunchback EP that much. Some of the new tunes are streaming on a blog here: http://pastaprima.net/?p=3967

Constant Hitmaker still rules the roost for me, and The War On Drugs record's a total classic. These guys (Vile, Granduciel) sure know how to sprinkle on the digital FX.

best record is def "god is saying this to you."

yeah that's my fave too, the cleaner production on Constant Hitmaker took a little bit away from it imo

the preview mp3 of the new Matador album sounds good

I liked the hunchback ep!

but what do I know

I'm looking forward to his new LP just so I can actually PURCHASE the damn thing! I'm trying to track down God is Saying and Constant Hitmaker on vinyl, but everything is like "limited to 30 LPs/must guess secret code/must have last name starting with T, W or K/must go to secret show in basement that was only disclosed to people who went to other secret show in basement that had last names starting with L and Y and guessed secret code", etc

Z_S we have God Is Saying... in stock at the moment at the price of $18 (second pressing) if u are interested email me dr.carl.sagan at gmail dot com

not sure abt constant hitmaker but i can check on that too

thanks for the head's up ian, I'm giving it some thought.

I hate to revive this thread and then speak disapprovingly of the forthcoming album, but I must. Childish Prodigy has its bright spots, but it seems to bury everything that I like about Vile under a pile of heavier "band" songs. From what I've heard on this, and the Hunchback EP, the influence of the Violators is not entirely a positive one. It's like he's sort of trying to pull a Neil Young guitar epic off, but the Violators aren't Crazy Horse. It kinda sucks that it's on Matador and so it will serve as a lot of people's first impression.

Still really digging Constant Hitmaker and God is Saying this to you, though.

Just downloaded pretty much everything, and he's coming to Minneapolis. Can't decide how I feel about the new one, but there's definitely some undeniable beauty in here...

i love childish prodigy

freak train is some real http://i36.tinypic.com/do554x.jpg shit

i don't think he'll ever do anything as good as "taking the farm" or "arms like boulders" but this one smashes the war on drugs album

need to hear constant hitmaker

Constant Hitmaker's pretty great, and a few of the songs on God is Saying are still my very favorites. I am trying to warm up the new one, but tbh I'm not really feelin' it.

huh i really like the new one a lot. it gets a little samey near the end but the first half is pretty solid. maybe i'm weird but i like the strong songs on childish prodigy more than the formlessness of the earlier albums.

"overnite religion" and "my best friends" are so so fucking good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Nf59X22m4

re: Record Store Day
Mexican Summer is re-releasing "God is Saying.." as a one-time-only vinyl/cassette combo.

http://e2ma.net/userdata/24823/images/medium/e1270658628.jpg

really ended up in love with childish prodigy. have totally overplayed the heck out of heart attack in particular

man this new EP is good... title is Square Shells and the 7+ minute jam is sounding so fine right now, almost like Spacemen 3 but with more of a ticking motorik beat.

agreed... this is wonderful...

Thanks for the heads up! I've been looking forward to some new Kurt Vile.

Snagged it! Top-notch sounds from Kurt.

Yeah, formless music in general can irritate me to no end, but I find his stuff mesmerizing. Really loved Childish Prodigy.

He reminds me a bit of what might've happened if someone had given Jeffrey Lee Pierce a cheesy/cool drum machine & said 'go at it.'

getting harder and harder to ignore this guy

?

I think he's rolling through town in two weeks. I'm gonna try hit it up.

I dunno he was always a kind of take 'em or leave 'em kind of thing for me, liked but not loved, but I've been digging the recent ish a bunch

Apparently giving away new Kurt Vile EP at the Matablog today only:

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/05/25/download-kurt-vile-square-shells-ep-for-free/

Gotta give them yer email, but its Matador, no biggie. Haven't gotten the email back yet, so claim of "instant download" maybe a little off, but still cool deal. Like everything I have heard by this guy so far, wanna hear more.

The instant download popped up for me as soon as I entered the e-mail addy, didn't even have to wait for a confirmation. Hmm.

Firefox, Safari, or Explorer?

good lookin' out grandavis

i got the download immediately but maybe cuz i have a matador account already cuzza mail order

(i used firefox)

Firefox. It did pop up in the background, so it took me a few minutes to notice it.

Thanks folks. Gonna try again ...

Firefox did the trick, not sure why I persist in using Windows for anything. Maybe this will convince me to go see KV in a few weeks with Real Estate. On the fence.

the last half of "invisibility: nonexistent" is really blissed out :)

I dunno he was always a kind of take 'em or leave 'em kind of thing for me, liked but not loved, but I've been digging the recent ish a bunch

― (e_3) (Edward III), Monday, May 24, 2010 4:42 PM

ah i misread it as you were trying to ignore him, but yeah otm

def gonna try to catch him live next month

i never heard him before this...is this pretty much what he's like on the albums?

some parts remind me of the quieter parts of swell maps but more pop

he's pretty varied. God Is Saying This To You (my fave) is mostly solo material with a lot of slide guitar. his last EP credited to Kurt Vile and the Violators was more rock. some of his other stuff is more pop/rock with drum machine.

solo as in just voice and guitar, no band

haunted springsteen imo

the last half of "invisibility: nonexistent" is really blissed out :)

― m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:02 PM (51 minutes ago)

this is what I was referring to above and it is already one of my favorite things of 2010.

ah yeah i see that now...really beautiful

also is it me, or is this song title:

"Losing Momentum (For Jim Jarmusch)" a great parody sonic youth song title or what?

"i wanted everything" sorta reminds me of if jandek made conventional music

yeah I definitely get a hint of Jandek on KV's stuff sometimes

on = in

war on drugs should be putting out a new album this year too

thats a gr8 bandname

"hunchback" on ep >>>> "hunchback" on childish prodigy btw

i figured out who his voice reminds me of.. george brigman

little bit like j. mascis too

still really love square shells

totally. Ocean City one of my favorite songs of the year

the really long track is dreamy too

been really loving the war on drugs album without realising this dude was in 'em. need to investigate more now ic

I think you would like Square Shells.

there's a mew single on Matador, only listened once so far but the sound is more full-band.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/25kurtcover_mo2d.jpg

March 8

A side:
Baby’s Arms
Jesus Fever
Puppet To The Man
On Tour
Society Is My Friend

In My Time is pretty nice.
B side:
Runner Ups
In My Time
Peeping Tomboy
Smoke Ring For My Halo
Ghost Town

hell yes

Just listening to a promo of the new one. I havne't previously heard him before, but this is stripped down acoustica with a few effects on top. Kind of M.Ward with J.Mascis's voice with a hint of Ariel Pink(?) Didn't think much of it at first, but it might be growing on me. Anyway, what's the previous stuff like? Does it rock or subvert any more than this?

It alternates between stuff like that, some more straight-forward indie-rock/pop moments (thinking "Freeway"), and NY+Crazy Horse style rockers/jammers.
Childish Prodigy is probably his most "rockin" and "god is saying this to you" his most subdued.

and they're all great

new one is streaming on npr's website

thx

Its really good!

tomboy is so so glorious

I wasn't sure of what to make of this guy when I first heard this new album. It felt kind of MOR at first, but then a lot of the songs started worming their ways in and now 'Society Is My Friend' and 'Puppet To The Man' are firm favourites.

there's a real lindsay buckingham vibe to the new one...

this sounds great. have kinda missed the boat on this guy...makes me think of j mascis backed by the go-betweens or something.

his first three are great too, tyler, if you've not heard them...

still find this song impossibly good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mgUlSHBUg

I wasn't sure of what to make of this guy when I first heard this new album. It felt kind of MOR at first, but then a lot of the songs started worming their ways in and now 'Society Is My Friend' and 'Puppet To The Man' are firm favourites.

― cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Monday, February 28, 2011 12:27 PM

i like this new one but i think i prefer him in his "rockin'" mode. you should rly check out 'childish prodigy'

Dog Latin, I like the new one, but you should definitely check out his earlier stuff (particularly the wonderful constant hitmaker and the occasionally brilliant god is saying this to you).

They are the after the goldrush and on the beach to smoke ring for my halo's comes a time.

imo

And I like childish prodigy (I like just about anything he does tbh), but it was also the first one that started occasionally veering into the coffeeshop friendly style

Smoke Ring sounding really good to my fatigued monday morning self right now.

co-sign on new lp being great

square shells is the only things I actually listen to all the way through, but I listen to it all the time. Is this album like new new or is it that thing that came out pretty recently

its new new. square shells was an ep, wasn't it?

its the new studio album out next week

Yeah square shells was an ep. Thanks for the info on the new shit.

new album's excellent

for anyone in brooklyn, kurt vile is gonna be playing at academy records in williamsburg around 5pm tomorrow!

I'll be at the Generation Records show, very excited.

as I have the day off, expect to be at Academy.

dang. would have gone to that. workin.

me to.

o

Academy @ 5pm w/ Thurston Moore & folks
Generation @ 7pm
Other @ 9pm

(I figure the 2nd and 3rd shows are acoustic)

Amazing show at Generation Records, place was packed.

Setlist

1 New Song
2 Babys Arms
3 In My Time
4 Jesus Fever
5 Ghost Town
6 Slow Talkers
7 On Tour
8 Blackberry Song

"runner ups" is my favorite song off this -- great album tho

agree, "runner ups" is A+ best song here

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/22/thumbs_up_rip.jpg

hey that's my .gif!

its all about tomboy

Wish I could get my money back for this unmelodic lazy record.

lol u mad

This is great.

i held the same opinion as calstars the first few times. i wouldn't say it's classic, but it has moments. "society is my friend" is my choice cut.

reminds me of the verve a little bit for some reason; in a good way.

can't hear it without thinking of sy's "society is a hole" which is by design I take it

society is my friend, it makes me lie to a hole

can't hear it without thinking of sy's "society is a hole" which is by design I take it

they are labelmates now. i love that callback though.

I think he played 6 of those 8 at Academy

wish i could have gone to that. very excited about the show with j mascis later this month

Childish Prodigy > Constant Hitmaker >>> Square Shells >> Smoke Ring > God is Saying This to You

smoke ring's just a runner up?

I'm warming up to it...

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS DUDE THO

not feeling this new album... really same-y songs, no variation like on Square Shells, no weird little instrumentals, no big loud sounding stuff like "Freak Train" from CP, his voice sounds the same on every song with the same accent and inflections. Plus I think having what sounds like a consistent lineup throughout makes these tunes sound even more similar, which does not serve them well imo.

Those are all completely valid points and pretty much why this isn't an "o_O OMG I love this album" album for me. But, having said that, I really do love the vibe, so even if it is kinda samey - its a great one.

Wish this album would had more of a "Freeway" vibe

I mean where are the electric guitars?

His voice sounds yards better when he projects

this is a gorgeous album

normally i would not like a dude who sings like this, but his writing for guitar is ridiculously good.

liking this a lot, it's a grower

his sound is always so pretty & inviting imo but w/ this album i find myself aimlessly singing a bunch of the songs

me too. like "jesus fever" isn't even one of my top three on the album but it runs thru my head

I loved Childhood Prodigy. Reading this thread and a few reviews, I'm guessing the new one is closer to Square Shells than CP. I'm alright with that but prefer his more freewheeling style.

http://www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/matadorrecords/~ACp19

bummer. i have tickets for friday night's show. hope he gets his stuff back together soon

does a Ned Raggett like Kurt Vile, or does he just follow random people's Twitters?

Vile doesn't seem like "Ned music" imo

More of an RT in this case.

ah got it

suddenly it all makes sense & my life has been restored to balance & normalcy

"Smoke Ring..." is a damn near perfect record, marred only by the out of place "puppet to the man." Three three plus minute outro on "Ghost Town" is a sheer wonder, esp. when that insect like guitar bubbles up in the mix.

No one does stoner observations like Vile.

"puppet" is great, fuiud

Yeah, Puppet was the first track I got into on this.

***runs and hides***

hey it's each to his own.

This is obviously my problem, but I already have a tough enough time with "Kurt Vile," but "Smoke Ring For My Halo" on top of it has made it such that I cannot even bring myself to listen to his music.

yr missin out i think!

it's his real name! what's he supposed to do?

Totally missing out

pretty stupid reason not to listen to an album...

Yeah, considering how terrible the names of so many things in my collection are... I'll give him a shot... "Ghost Town" is as good a place to start as any?

just listen to the whole album!

it's his real name! what's he supposed to do?

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:15 PM (1 hour ago)

I find myself explaining that rather frequently.

That's perfect

Good track! But the entire album, for real.

"clarke b."

this album is great, and his stuff translates really well to a live setting (from what i can tell)

it's his real name!

hard to believe

he's really good live. the quieter solo stuff especially. really intense.

fuck, "baby's arms"

I've listened to Smoke Ring more than any other new album this year, for sure.

the guitar playing is so distinctive

listened to this on my way to work today

such a beautiful/great album.

but god the live show was lifeless

I gave this a listen a few weeks back and liked it a lot... Thanks for the push!

I had never heard that "Blackbery Song" posted above. Really beautiful (though I hate vocals in one headphone; always bums me out).

"Smoke Ring" is my favorite album of the year so far by a long shot. The only other thing I have of his is the "Hunchback" EP... I clearly need to pick some more of it up.

Promo copy of the new War On Drugs record is sounding nice--lining up even more neatly than expected with KV's sound on "Smoke Ring" (not a bad thing in and of itself, and no big surprise since these Philly fellows like Granduciel and Vile all seem to have bro'ed down long enough working on this particular hermetic style for a while now).

For example, one new War On Drugs song's riff is just like "On Tour", but in an upbeat shuffle...

^^^want

smoke ring is great, got a sweet melancholic vibe to it

"In My Time"

album production is really well done too. nice electron bubbling underneath that never overwhelms.

New EP coming and deluxe version of Smoke Ring for my Halo

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/09/06/kurt-vile-so-outta-reach-ep-and-deluxe-edition-of-album-november-8-the-creature-mp3-now/

New song is good, definetly reminds me of an older piece of his that I can't quite put my finger on.

Secretly hoping he goes back to the krauty/psychedelic/experimental stuff still :x

I feel like the War on Drugs kinda takes care of my kraut/psych KV needs, whether he's in that band or not. Was he really ever that krauty to begin with?

Anyone else out there fucking livid that they're slapping a bonus disc onto this album? Like, why do I bother spending actual money on albums the week they come out if 6 months later there's gonna be extra songs on it for the same price. First world problems, I know.

but isn't the bonus disk just the new ep?

the new ep isn't coming out alone on cd. and even if it was, it wouldn't be free to people that already bought the album and basically got it to the point where someone thought a "deluxe edition" was worth doing.

^^^ otm, I'm really annoyed by this too. Yes, I understand I can get the EP tracks digitally, but its still kind of a slap in the face when labels do this.

KV LPs as WA films

The Great:
Constant Hitmaker/Bottle Rocket
God Is Saying This To You/Rushmore
Smoke Ring For My Halo/The Royal Tenenbaums

The Very Good:
The Hunchback EP/The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Square Shells EP/The Darjeeling Limited

The Failure:
Childish Prodigy/ The Life Aquatic

Prodigy=Failure?!

crazy talk!

yeah, "overnite religion" and "Unknown" alone makes it at least Very Good - those might be two fav KV songs. i like others on it as well.

Dead Alive is his best song ever

Blackberry Song is awesome too. I also love the production on the album, or rather the lack of production.

he sounds like mick jagger or iggy pop in this record and he never did before or after.
like royal trux meets spacemen 3 or something

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFOForu7Y0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFOForu7Y0

I think CP is a major misstep. Maybe if it was your first taste you'd think it was good, but not me. The EP version of "Hunchback" is so much better and I find "Freak Train" extremely annoying. I actually gave up on him after that, but SRfMH is so good I had to come back.

guys the new split 7" with woods is REALLY GOOD too

@69, does that 7" come with a download code? Might pick up from label.

I'm curious when some of the new stuff he played at his acoustic instores will turn up recorded, he did a great sounding murder ballad that I've yet to hear again.

hmmm im not sure it does! lemme look later on this evening...

Heard it at a friends house last night. Not too much material, but it's got me thirsty for that new EP.

Was listening to some older stuff and I'm starting to think Space Forklift is his best song.

Space Forklift is amazing

Dead Alive is his best song ever

― nostormo, Saturday, September 24, 2011 6:23 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_hkraCqA9k

the album version is better imo

Kurt Vile and The Young will be such a killer show to catch. Kind of bummed that new 7" is only available at two shows.

Seriously, fuck off Matador. Looks like I have to re-buy Smoke Ring For My Halo in order to get the new EP. The only way its available on its own is vinyl, with either CD or digital you have to buy the Smoke Ring deluxe edition to get both the album and the EP. Hate when labels pull this bullshit, I expect it from major labels, but Matador? C'mon guys.

get a record player

Have one, but its in storage for now because I had to sacrifice the space for our nursery. Its just frustrating. And you wonder why people turn to illegal downloading when you won't give willing customers an option to pay for your product.

yeah whenever i am frustrated with a company, i just steal from them, it makes me feel so much better.

I didn't say that, c'mon now.

can you not get the EP from iTunes?

hey jon

will be available on amazon tomorrow for $6

http://www.amazon.com/So-Outta-Reach/dp/B005TD5RCO/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320683141&sr=8-2-fkmr0

hope u feel better

$6? Seriously, fuck off Amazon.

$6 is reasonable for an EP! I am feeling happier now. I didn't see it on iTunes as a standalone and digital wasn't an option at Matador's store. Didn't even think to check Amazon.

yeah amazon mp3 is great now IMO, usually cheaper and also no DRM and 320k quality, i love it, i haven't bought anything off itunes in forever

the free cloud player works well too

the title track has a v tom petty vibe imho

i don't know about tom petty but the intricate guitar sound of the first song is even more magic than anything on smoke rings. it's like a naturally dyed persian carpet woven from guitar strings.

I just bought the songs individually from iTunes (in this case, cheaper than Amazon).
It's really great.

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http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/45718/d8bceec8.gif
http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/45718/d8bceec8.gif
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on tour

<3

nice shirt

If it's a Kurt Vile thread bumping-I'll check it out

Smoke Ring For My Halo is such a gorgeous freaking record. I heard it in a store the other day, Googled some lyrics, and was surprised as to what it was. I had checked out some clips long ago and never followed up, but this was really, really immediately striking to me, and I picked it up the next chance I got. And I'm so not in this headspace right now; that vast majority of what I've been listening to the past six months is metal. The vibe he conjures is so immediate and evocative; I love everything about it.

any plans for a new record?

i'd heard there should be one before the end of the year, but have heard nothing more

You can stream the first single, which is over 9 minutes on his website http://kurtvile.com/. New DOUBLE Album out in April.
This song is so awesome and slackerish. The beginning sounds a lot like Pavement, but then turns into something so much more amazing.

never too early to anticipate a new Kurt Vile record - Wakin On A Pretty Daze? (2013)

Think there might be a thread for it already!

ooops, sorry folks.

he never sounded so angry, aggressive and dirty as he did on Childish Prodigy.
(vocals and production)

i hope he'll make another "dark" record like this, only with much less fillers.

New song with Courtnet burnett is excellent

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/courtney-barnett-kurt-vile-over-everything/

sometimes there's no poison like a dream

he's covered belly??

i like how chill + happy this album is

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/45718/d8bceec8.gif

New single Loading Zones is really good

Another new song. Sadly, it's boring.
(Loading Zones is boring too imo)

Hope he didn't lose it completely..

But isn't that his shtick? To always make the same boring song? Which usually is great btw.

The melodies are weaker. He becam too monotonic and lost the melancolic atmosphere.

"bassackwards" is amazing imo

i don't remember which new one i heard recently but i too was disappointed

The slightly warped sound of Bassackwards is great. That song flows majestically towards the delta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOFWHty4XFQ

oh i really like that (and yeah "loading zones" is the one i didn't much care for)

yeah it's gorgeously produced too

ok so i am looking forward to the album then lol

those lyrics, ugh. when he started in second verse, same as the first, I had to bail

Yup. The first verse wasn’t even all that. writers using the word “bay” is usually a bad sign
I think Loading Zones is much better

I enjoyed the song right up to the point where I thought, “That was a pretty good song,” then looked at the time and realized there were four plus minutes left.

Pitchfork uploaded his live performence of the new album on youtube.
I like the arrangements but the melodies are meh imo

i guess maybe i am starting to wonder exactly how many Kurt Vile songs i need in my life

Marc Maron interview up today that I haven't listened to yet

co-sign with alpine though

One Trick Ponies rips.

New album today

had felt like poster above when it comes to singles so far, but this album is great, especially after the first few tracks. love the mild production variety!

the sum of the album is better than the individual tracks, yes. But my god, 80 minutes is a lot.

i guess maybe i am starting to wonder exactly how many Kurt Vile songs i need in my life

― alpine static, Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:08 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah def...i like him still but i miss the weirdness that creeped around the edges back in the square shells etc era

80 minutes is a lot.

this, too. or maybe instead of what i posted before. or maybe both.

“Hysteria” is great!

https://open.spotify.com/track/1oRu9aGmEgnzxrtyz601j7?si=2PlEIcxaSTauLtZloeD4pg

Could have used Stella on the title track tho

Well shit I guess it is her on the title

he wrote one near-perfect song in Wakin On A Pretty Day but everything else has felt like rehashes of it or just doesn't come close

"runner ups" is his near-perfect song. he has several! but it's true that many of them seem to have ended up with rehashes at some point down the line -- tho they can still be pleasant

still need to listen to the new one

smoke rings is still his best album. his approach on that one was a bit more motorik, not as much of the rambling Neil Young-isms that define his most recent work, a lot of tight finger-picking in interesting tunings. baby's arms and runner-ups are my favorite tracks of his.

To me it sounds like he’s trying too hard on Smoke Ring. It sounds so busy all the time. Stuff since then has been more relaxed, dare I saw meditative

I liked the new one as I listened to it but now I don't feel super compelled to go back to it. Wouldn't turn it off if it came on, but don't think I'd actively seek it out either.

that pretty much sums up Kurt Vile in general

he peaked when he was kurt vile... new on Gulcher

This is a good record man!

I can totally picture post-Benji Kozelek taking guest verses on Bassackwards.

Other than that, the new album feels like it's a thousand hours long (I haven't been able to hear it in full so far), and yes Runner-Ups and Baby's Arms are some of his best tunes on what happens to be his best album.

this album must be terrible because the album cover art has like fake "ring wear" as the actual cover. why do people do this?

ufo otm.

WOAPD the album is all the kurt i imagine i'll ever need.

the new album i mean xp

i've been kinda looking at his output post smoke-rings along the lines of yo la tengo when they released "and then nothing..." and "summer sun" but instead all they ever did were to keep releasing records in those veins and say not put out a "pass the hatchet, i think i'm goodkind."

this album must be terrible because the album cover art has like fake "ring wear" as the actual cover
haha yeah I wtfd at this too

When free online photoshop tutorials go wrong

give 'em a glass of wooder
give 'em a cherry pie

Bonded with my wife's college-age cousin on Christmas Eve over KV. (Unsurprisingly, he's also into Mac DeMarco.)

https://open.spotify.com/track/22YbmBNDcL1jACZIPuItR8?si=iy3lodDqT3uwmORZ4oEaQA

Really loving his song with John Prine, a take on "How Lucky", very sweet and heartbreaking in retrospect. The rest of the EP is okay, but "Dandelions" is such an on the nose, meandering song that it borders on Vile self-parody.

New song is very much what I needed

https://pitchfork.com/news/kurt-vile-announces-new-album-watch-my-moves-and-tour-shares-video-for-new-song-watch/

Nice
Happy to see Stella return too

a new song called “Exploding Like Stones,” which features Sun Ra Arkestra’s James Stewart. Watch it below, and find Vile’s upcoming tour dates, too.

The new album includes a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Wages of Sin.”

Oh yes.

I really enjoy the new singles but nothing will best freeway

I couldn’t get more than halfway through the new one. It was fine, but it just occurred to me that I do not need 75 more minutes of Vile. I just don’t hear a ton of growth. In fact, even some of the older stuff I once really liked has lost its luster for me.

“Pretty Pimpin” is his only listenable song IMO

wakin on a pretty day is good

album w courtney barnett is tops

listening to the new album now, sounds great to my ears, very on point, he is what he is

i guess maybe i am starting to wonder exactly how many Kurt Vile songs i need in my life

― alpine static, Thursday, October 11, 2018 2:08 PM (three years ago)

hehe well yes

I saw him a few years ago at a festival in Cancún. By far the dullest act of the entire four-day festival.

Alpine Static OTM in both 2018 and 2022

'smoke rings' is still the best thing he's done by leaps and bounds, but i'm glad he's still out there doing his thing (and for a major label now!)

Yeah

When I’m realizing is that he’s kinda like Spiritualized for me - gimme the best song from each album and I’ll put together a single killer playlist that provides what I need from this act

the ep where he’s asleep on the front cover is really sweet, can’t remember the name. think the songs were all from the smoke ring sessions?

Finally getting around to the album. I really like it tho it’s not surprising. Completely in character , kind of lazy and mellow but has some nice moments. The track “fo sho” is exactly what you’d expect

albums vmic

albums where I'll have what they're having

albums i wish i was in the mood for more often

bless im

any whiff of him or Courtney Barnett briefly sends me back to their collab album. i think it's the best thing either has done

“Even if I’m wrong I’m gonna sing until the ass crack of dawn and it’s probably gonna be another long song”

Kurt Vile was on this week's Hollywood Handbook although I'm not sure he enjoyed it too much.