Today's song is some of the solo material of Kurt Vile. He released a new album pretty recently, which I've heard good things about, but this is the first track from his EP of last year, Square Shells.
Kurt Vile used to be in the War on Drugs, and this song's emblematic of the kind of stylistic variation that they used to trade in. It starts as a back-porch stones strum, and then gets a bit electronic at the end, sort of like a more earthy version of Woods. It's a pretty good guide to the style of the rest of the EP, which flirts with drone and ambient type soundscapes while remaining pretty grounded in folky rock. Pretty good.
He's doing an instore at Rough Trade East next Thursday, should be pretty fun (I guess this also means he's doing some proper gigs around then too). Also Kurt Vile's supporting Woods at Scala in about October, which is looking like one of my most anticipated shows of the year.
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