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Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me review – indie rock’s most easygoing dude gets existential
(Verve) Sounding characteristically virtuosic but unbothered, Vile is more forward-thinking than ever on a record that surveys the bliss and bumps of life in his mid-40s These days, Kurt Vile songs begin in the middle of the story. In the third decade ...
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(Verve) Sounding characteristically virtuosic but unbothered, Vile is more forward-thinking than ever on a record that surveys the bliss and bumps of life in his mid-40s These days, Kurt Vile songs begin in the middle of the story. In the third decade ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me review – indie rock’s most easygoing dude gets existential, (Verve) Sounding characteristically virtuosic but unbothered, Vile is more forward-thinking than ever on a record that surveys the bliss and bumps of life in his mid-40s These days, Kurt Vile songs begin in the middle of the story. In the third decade of his career, the journeyman musician seems even more content than ever to ride his own wave, to let his laid-back koans sit in the air without explanation or context, waiting for a listener to find the right frequency to understand or absorb them in their own time. The Philadelphia guitarist and songwriter opens his 10th record – an auspicious number for any musician – in the least auspicious, most Vile of ways, mumbling his way through the moment: “Smoke on my lip / I wrote a song / Some people said / I was doin’ it wrong,” he sings, his plainspoken warble as familiar, at this point, as the taste of Coca-Cola, or the smell of a summer th
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