KURT VILE

Acclaimed Philadelphian singer-songwriter and producer Kurt Vile has announce his anticipated tenth studio album ‘(watch my moves)’ out via Verve / Virgin Music Australia.

Since his earliest self-produced CD-Rs, the psych-pop master Kurt Vile has referred to himself as “Philly’s Constant Hitmaker”—and while he gave himself that name with a sly wink, he was also nodding toward the song writing prowess that would result in him becoming one of his home city’s most celebrated rock artists. “I’m always thinking about catchy music, even though it’s fried, or sizzled, out,” he says. “It’s my own version of a classic thing—it’s moving forward and backward at the same time.”

On his latest album, ‘(watch my moves)’, Vile pulls his talents as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer in unexpected directions—and the result is a vibrant, yet meditative album propelled by Vile’s laid-back charm and curious spirit. Every lyric has been chiselled down into an aphorism, every bloom of distorted guitar or murmuring synth helping create that “fried” pop. “It’s about song writing. It’s about lyrics. It’s about being the master of all domains in the music,” he says of his ninth album and first in partnership with a major label, Verve Records.

(watch my moves) comes from a period when Vile, whose touring and recording schedule during the 2010s was seemingly constant, stayed in one place. His mind was always swirling, though, puzzling out pointillistic lyrics, dreaming up spit-shined choruses, and checking in on other dimensions. “My favourite pastime these days is sitting drinking coffee in the morning post-breakfast by the window, reading and listening to Sun Ra, sun shining through the forest trees,” says Vile. “In that moment, it’s all the traveling I’ll ever need. This record encapsulates all that—letting two years roll by and staying in my zone, traveling all the while in my brain, at the piano or in my guitar.”

– 140g 2LP Transparent Emerald vinyl

– Double gatefold w with 6mm spine

TRACKLISTINGS

LP1
SIDE A
1. Goin On A Plane Today
2. Flyin (Like A Fast Train)
3. Palace Of OKV In Reverse
4. Like Exploding Stones

SIDE B

1. Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)
2. Hey Like A Child
3. Jesus On A Wire
4. Fo Sho

LP2
SIDE A
1. Cool Water
2. Chazzy Don’t Mind
3. (Shiny Things)
4. Say The Word

SIDE B
1. Wages Of Sin
2. Kurt Runner
3. Stuffed Leopard