Another new song. Sadly, it's boring. (Loading Zones is boring too imo)
Hope he didn't lose it completely..
― nostormo, Monday, 10 September 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
But isn't that his shtick? To always make the same boring song? Which usually is great btw.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 10 September 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
The melodies are weaker. He becam too monotonic and lost the melancolic atmosphere.
― nostormo, Monday, 10 September 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
"bassackwards" is amazing imo
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 September 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
i don't remember which new one i heard recently but i too was disappointed
― dyl, Monday, 10 September 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
The slightly warped sound of Bassackwards is great. That song flows majestically towards the delta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOFWHty4XFQ
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
oh i really like that (and yeah "loading zones" is the one i didn't much care for)
― dyl, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 05:23 (six years ago) link
yeah it's gorgeously produced too
ok so i am looking forward to the album then lol
― dyl, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 05:28 (six years ago) link
those lyrics, ugh. when he started in second verse, same as the first, I had to bail
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
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
― calstars, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― Andrew "Hit Dice" Clay (PBKR), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
Pitchfork uploaded his live performence of the new album on youtube.I like the arrangements but the melodies are meh imo
― nostormo, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
i guess maybe i am starting to wonder exactly how many Kurt Vile songs i need in my life
― alpine static, Thursday, 11 October 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Marc Maron interview up today that I haven't listened to yet
co-sign with alpine though
― You (bleeping) need me. You can't Finn without me (fionnland), Thursday, 11 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
One Trick Ponies rips.
― triggercut, Friday, 12 October 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
New album today
― calstars, Friday, 12 October 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
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!
― sean gramophone, Friday, 12 October 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
the sum of the album is better than the individual tracks, yes. But my god, 80 minutes is a lot.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
― 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
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
80 minutes is a lot.
this, too. or maybe instead of what i posted before. or maybe both.
― alpine static, Friday, 12 October 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
“Hysteria” is great!
― calstars, Sunday, 14 October 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/1oRu9aGmEgnzxrtyz601j7?si=2PlEIcxaSTauLtZloeD4pg
Could have used Stella on the title track tho
― calstars, Sunday, 14 October 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
Well shit I guess it is her on the title
― calstars, Sunday, 14 October 2018 04:18 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Sunday, 14 October 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
"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
― dyl, Sunday, 14 October 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
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.
― voodoo chili, Sunday, 14 October 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
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
― calstars, Sunday, 14 October 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
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.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
that pretty much sums up Kurt Vile in general
― alpine static, Monday, 15 October 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
he peaked when he was kurt vile... new on Gulcher
― 1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 October 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
This is a good record man!
― calstars, Saturday, 20 October 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 21 October 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
this album must be terrible because the album cover art has like fake "ring wear" as the actual cover. why do people do this?
― budo jeru, Sunday, 21 October 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
ufo otm.
WOAPD the album is all the kurt i imagine i'll ever need.
― budo jeru, Sunday, 21 October 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
the new album i mean xp
― budo jeru, Sunday, 21 October 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
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."
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 22 October 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
this album must be terrible because the album cover art has like fake "ring wear" as the actual coverhaha yeah I wtfd at this too
― niels, Monday, 22 October 2018 06:15 (five years ago) link
When free online photoshop tutorials go wrong
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 October 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
give 'em a glass of woodergive 'em a cherry pie
― dripping in fennesz (sanskrit), Thursday, 27 December 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
Bonded with my wife's college-age cousin on Christmas Eve over KV. (Unsurprisingly, he's also into Mac DeMarco.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 December 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/22YbmBNDcL1jACZIPuItR8?si=iy3lodDqT3uwmORZ4oEaQA
― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
New song is very much what I needed
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/kurt-vile-announces-new-album-watch-my-moves-and-tour-shares-video-for-new-song-watch/
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
NiceHappy to see Stella return too
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
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.”
The new album includes a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Wages of Sin.”
Oh yes.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link
I really enjoy the new singles but nothing will best freeway
― calstars, Saturday, 26 March 2022 23:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 16 April 2022 04:56 (two years ago) link
“Pretty Pimpin” is his only listenable song IMO
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 16 April 2022 05:05 (two years ago) link