Charlie wrote:
So when is this Kurt Vile guy making his SNL appearance?
november 19, 2011
november 19, 2011
Kurt Vile
november 19, 2011
the loophole is it got reissued last week on woodsist
Hello wrote:
wasn't constant hitmaker released last year? why is it "best new music"??
is this the one that matador will reissue or ?Epstein wrote:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11188-freeway/
best new music or something
matador is putting out child prodigy in september
Kurt Vile
Constant Hitmaker / God Is Saying This to You
[Gulcher / Mexican Summer; 2009]
7.2 / 7.6
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Sometimes an artist pens a song title that more perfectly captures his aesthetic in words than any review could. Thoughtfully, the War on Drugs' Kurt Vile has done this with his solo work via Constant Hitmaker's "Classic Rock in Spring/Freeway in Mind". See? Done. You know exactly how that should sound– as nostalgic, wistful, and sunlit as the title suggests, with Vile crooning softly into a Jim James-sized cavern of reverb over some finger-picked chords about "riding on your Yellow Schwinn and blasting classic rock in spring." Those are some mighty big signifiers for a twentysomething kid to be throwing around, but Vile knows his way around them like they were living-room furniture.
Kurt Vile (real name, no gimmicks) hails from Philadelphia, but he has absorbed a lifetime's worth of FM rock, and the ghosts of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and others glimmer under the surface of his woozy, homemade bedroom pop. Vile recorded the majority of these songs on his own, and the sputter of the cheap drum software and the murmuring vocals testify to the kind of guy who doesn't want to wake up his parents upstairs. Nonetheless, even in this sleepy, abstracted form, there is no mistaking the widescreen Tom Pettyisms of "Freeway", from the wry hiccup of the vocal to the sunshower of jangling guitars that accompanies the track. Constant Hitmaker, his 2008 debut on Gulcher, snagged the ear of an attentive few, and now it is being reissued along with God Is Saying This To You, a limited edition LP, on vinyl. The sound of God Is Saying This To You is slightly cleaner and clearer than the bleary, sound effects-addled Constant Hitmaker, but that only means Vile sounds like he's singing from the bottom of a mineshaft this time instead of from the ocean floor. And it still feels like you're eavesdropping: Vile delivers every line in an amiable mumble, the sort of voice you use when you're humming something to yourself and only know every other word: "Hey girl, come on over, that'll be just fine. Two packs of red apples for the ride home," he murmurs over and over again on "Red Apples", and it sounds like the half-remembered chorus of some John Mellencamp song.
Vile has talked in interviews about his various odd jobs (he sings about operating a forklift on Constant Hitmaker) and his single, unfruitful semester in community college, and it rounds out the portrait suggested by his music: that of the talented but aimless kid in high school, the one who smoked pot every day but read philosophy textbooks in his free time, the sort of guy who identified viscerally with the borrowed blue-collar sentiments of classic rock radio. Kurt Vile channels this hangdog charm effortlessly, scrawling wayward little vocal melodies like the one on "Breathin Out" with the ease of a hesher Bob Pollard. Sections of Constant Hitmaker are bogged down with a few too many pedals-and-loops sound collages, but for most of the ride, Constant Hitmaker/God Is Saying This To You ambles dreamily along a perfect midway point between the disorientingly weird and the comfortingly familiar.
? Jayson Greene, April 24, 2009
street teamer
Kind of a crappy review but the press doesn't hurt.
Nice.
Saw David Malitz's post re: this on friday.
Saw David Malitz's post re: this on friday.
Kurt vile is opening for sonic youth in philly..
leaked soundboard recording of kurt at DNA test fest II http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vjmj2yzjz2j
I happened to catch him at a screening of "Best Worst Movie" as he was the opening band before the film (Rooftop Films). The crowd wasnt so into him, but mostly due to everyone wanting the film to start.
Kurt Vile will be playing a Rooftop Films event on July 31st. There he'll ditch his backing band the Violators for a performance before a screening of the documentary on the film Troll 2, "the legendary worst movie ever made, according to IMDB ratings."
That flick is such an event, Rooftop Films decided to stretch it over two nights. On July 30th they will show the actual film, accompanied by a performance from The Drums (one of many upcoming shows from that band, who also played last night at the Bell House). Other bands with Rooftop Films shows scheduled include Stars Like Fleas and Teengirl Fantasy. Full schedule below.
Kurt Vile will be playing a Rooftop Films event on July 31st. There he'll ditch his backing band the Violators for a performance before a screening of the documentary on the film Troll 2, "the legendary worst movie ever made, according to IMDB ratings."
That flick is such an event, Rooftop Films decided to stretch it over two nights. On July 30th they will show the actual film, accompanied by a performance from The Drums (one of many upcoming shows from that band, who also played last night at the Bell House). Other bands with Rooftop Films shows scheduled include Stars Like Fleas and Teengirl Fantasy. Full schedule below.
WFMU live set starting soon.
i forgot to give my impressions on the kurt vile/espers show in baltimore. i don't remember much in detail anymore but both acts were good. it worked in vile's favor to have several members from espers back him for the 2nd half of his set and i believe they played a very sweet feelies cover. not sure if he has lived up to all the hype, but i'll defiantly be keeping my eye on him and i'm rather optimistic for his matador debut. with all that out the way, i'd just like to say fuck you to the baltimore scene. they have yet to stop treating shows as one big social jerk.
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I don't care much for Kurt Vile's music, but I just want to say I think it's awesome that this thread is longer than the U2 thread.
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!