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CMU Approved
Approved: Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 22 July 2015
Kurt Vile has announced that he will release his new album, ‘B’lieve I’m Goin Down’, on 25 Sep through Matador. And for that I think we can all breath a sigh of relief. Because when it comes to psych-rock songwriters, there are few who come close to Vile.
Speaking to Rolling Stone earlier this year, Vile said of the new album: “I wanted to get back into the habit of writing a sad song on my couch, with nobody waiting on me. I really wanted it to sound like it’s on my couch – not in a lo-fi way, just more unguarded and vulnerable”.
And maybe that’s the key – while many of his contemporaries are spending hours trying to make their tracks sound like they were recorded on a 1960s tape recorder, he’s concentrating on the songs and how they feel. And the success of that is shown perfectly on the first track released from ‘B’lieve I’m Goin Down’ – ‘Pretty Pimpin’ – which you can listen to here:
