Kurt Vile keeps dancing to his own drumbeat on his latest solo album, '(watch my moves).' Read pscottrussell's review:
single “Flyin ” describes a sensation that just about all of us—musicians, in particular—can relate to in some way after the events of the past few years. “Flyin’ like a fast train, I don’t feel a thing / Till when I pull into my station, I just crash ‘n’ burn,” Vile murmurs, as if dazed. Life stomped on its brakes so abruptly, society got whiplash, and with nowhere to go and worry hanging heavy in the air, we each had to figure out someplace to turn.
, the Philadelphia “fried pop” veteran’s eighth solo album , is a psych-folk monument to the WFH era, as a cooped-up Vile alternates between fending off anxiety and finding solace in imagination. Self-produced and home-recorded in Vile’s new studio, OKV Central, with additional recording at Rob Schnapf’s Mant Sounds in Los Angeles, the album sprawls and wanders, but it won’t lose you.
Sometimes that grin comes with a wince, even when you know everything will turn out alright in the end. Vile builds album opener “Goin on a Plane Today” around a cutesy piano progression, as if to reinforce the regression into childhood that’s been forced on him by his fear of the flight: “Things gettin’ a little weird / My mind gone foggy, my memory’s unclear / Manhood compromised / Watch me shrinkin’ back into a little kid,” he croons, later adding trumpet alongside James Stewart’s tenor sax.
Vile’s big heart beats on “Say the Word,” as well, where he and his Violators bandmate Rob Laakso trade vocals over a steady low end, acoustic fingerpicking and synth accents.
Vile’s head may occasionally brush up against the clouds, but his feet are firmly planted. Though on balance,
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