Kurt Vile
*** guest editor Statue Sunshine inflicts his love upon you whilst overlooking Some Velvet Blog in Bruce’s SXSW-induced absence***
Man, this guest editing is interesting, like having to wear someone else’s clothes for a few days or something. But these are pretty cool clothes.
In Philadephia’s retardedly close knit music community, its an absolute joy to uncover remarkable sounds with which you have NO social connection to, no obligation to back-pat, or reason to shit-talk.
I don’t know Kurt Vile, but I occasionaly see him half-awake buying coffee in my neighborhood. His music stopped me in my tracks back in 2003(?) while I walked across the field of a summertime outdoor show. His melodic finger-picking and sleepy drawl seemed too good to be true, I kept waiting for him to take a wrong turn and lose my interest, but he didn’t. I scratched my head and thought, “goddamn that kid sounds alot like Miighty Flashlight”. Which is a very good thing brothers & sisters.
Shortly thereafter I made the effort to go see him live again and was given a copy of his then-current collection “10 Songs”, which proved that his beautiful nocturnal zen acoustic folk was only one of several guises he traveled under. Casio-damaged meanderings and other, um “challenging” sound pieces helped created a push/pull between accessible brilliance and almost-alienating absurdidty, not at all unlike Beck’s “stereopathetic soulmanure” CD.
Fast forward to THE NOW and one hears that those disparate elements of Kurt’s earlier music have been desegragated (to a degree), and often (but not always) merged together into a single day-glo lo-fi lysergic & sedated folk-pop vision. Formal compositions get tweaked and slowly spun dizzy. Likewise some experimental leanings are now informed with a welcome melodicism. The result being laid-back and good-natured psychedelia meditations that do not aim to please, they just look up for a second to wink & smile at ya. Fans of the Animal Collective/Ariel Pink axis take note, freak-folkers need apply.
Kurt Vile at MySpace
Freeway In Mind
Best Love
You Was Alone
Music Kurt Vile MP3 music
Man, this guest editing is interesting, like having to wear someone else’s clothes for a few days or something. But these are pretty cool clothes.
In Philadephia’s retardedly close knit music community, its an absolute joy to uncover remarkable sounds with which you have NO social connection to, no obligation to back-pat, or reason to shit-talk.
I don’t know Kurt Vile, but I occasionaly see him half-awake buying coffee in my neighborhood. His music stopped me in my tracks back in 2003(?) while I walked across the field of a summertime outdoor show. His melodic finger-picking and sleepy drawl seemed too good to be true, I kept waiting for him to take a wrong turn and lose my interest, but he didn’t. I scratched my head and thought, “goddamn that kid sounds alot like Miighty Flashlight”. Which is a very good thing brothers & sisters.
Shortly thereafter I made the effort to go see him live again and was given a copy of his then-current collection “10 Songs”, which proved that his beautiful nocturnal zen acoustic folk was only one of several guises he traveled under. Casio-damaged meanderings and other, um “challenging” sound pieces helped created a push/pull between accessible brilliance and almost-alienating absurdidty, not at all unlike Beck’s “stereopathetic soulmanure” CD.
Fast forward to THE NOW and one hears that those disparate elements of Kurt’s earlier music have been desegragated (to a degree), and often (but not always) merged together into a single day-glo lo-fi lysergic & sedated folk-pop vision. Formal compositions get tweaked and slowly spun dizzy. Likewise some experimental leanings are now informed with a welcome melodicism. The result being laid-back and good-natured psychedelia meditations that do not aim to please, they just look up for a second to wink & smile at ya. Fans of the Animal Collective/Ariel Pink axis take note, freak-folkers need apply.
Kurt Vile at MySpace
Freeway In Mind
Best Love
You Was Alone
Music Kurt Vile MP3 music
posted by Bruce at 10:28 AM
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