Kurt Vile
 

Get 'Constant Hitmaker' and 'The Hunchback' 12" with the Violators if you don't already have it... Who else here digs him?

hes amazing

even these two really early songs show how awesome of a song writer he is

http://tinyidols.blogspot.com/

his new LP child prodigy has a cut off it called freak train and its epic

rumor is that it will be on a label that rhymes with catador...

hes doing mostly solo dates in 09 starting in dc...

also the jack rose type picking he does is killer

who is the drummer in the violators? he is amazing.

i like how he sings on the violoators record better, more manly.

Fucking awesome, been listening to this shit to death.

"My Sympathy" is one of the best songs I've ever heard.

if you havent gotten it go DL god is saying this to you

the vinyl sold out in 48 hrs.

its about time these guys jumped on him

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11188-freeway/

yeah, his record company prolly bought some pfork advertising space.

have you guys ever read that tom lax interview by scott soriano in terminal boredom? tom talks about how he sent the first times new viking record to pitchfork for review, then he got an emil asking if hed like to advertise, which he didnt, and then no review. scott soriano then said the same thing happened when he sent the first a-frames for review. hahahaha.

i dont doubt it

i have two stories form reliable people that i cant say that go into pitchforks practices

that being said vile is now on matador and this review screams "oh shit we slept on this wel...l good thing it was reissued cause when child prodigy comes out in September we wanna be able to say to the masses we championed him first"

Kurt Vile
Constant Hitmaker / God Is Saying This to You

[Gulcher / Mexican Summer; 2009]

7.2 / 7.6

 

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Sometimes an artist pens a song title that more perfectly captures his aesthetic in words than any review could. Thoughtfully, the War on Drugs' Kurt Vile has done this with his solo work via Constant Hitmaker's "Classic Rock in Spring/Freeway in Mind". See? Done. You know exactly how that should sound-- as nostalgic, wistful, and sunlit as the title suggests, with Vile crooning softly into a Jim James-sized cavern of reverb over some finger-picked chords about "riding on your Yellow Schwinn and blasting classic rock in spring." Those are some mighty big signifiers for a twentysomething kid to be throwing around, but Vile knows his way around them like they were living-room furniture.
Kurt Vile (real name, no gimmicks) hails from Philadelphia, but he has absorbed a lifetime's worth of FM rock, and the ghosts of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and others glimmer under the surface of his woozy, homemade bedroom pop. Vile recorded the majority of these songs on his own, and the sputter of the cheap drum software and the murmuring vocals testify to the kind of guy who doesn't want to wake up his parents upstairs. Nonetheless, even in this sleepy, abstracted form, there is no mistaking the widescreen Tom Pettyisms of "Freeway", from the wry hiccup of the vocal to the sunshower of jangling guitars that accompanies the track. Constant Hitmaker, his 2008 debut on Gulcher, snagged the ear of an attentive few, and now it is being reissued along with God Is Saying This To You, a limited edition LP, on vinyl. The sound of God Is Saying This To You is slightly cleaner and clearer than the bleary, sound effects-addled Constant Hitmaker, but that only means Vile sounds like he's singing from the bottom of a mineshaft this time instead of from the ocean floor. And it still feels like you're eavesdropping: Vile delivers every line in an amiable mumble, the sort of voice you use when you're humming something to yourself and only know every other word: "Hey girl, come on over, that'll be just fine. Two packs of red apples for the ride home," he murmurs over and over again on "Red Apples", and it sounds like the half-remembered chorus of some John Mellencamp song.
Vile has talked in interviews about his various odd jobs (he sings about operating a forklift on Constant Hitmaker) and his single, unfruitful semester in community college, and it rounds out the portrait suggested by his music: that of the talented but aimless kid in high school, the one who smoked pot every day but read philosophy textbooks in his free time, the sort of guy who identified viscerally with the borrowed blue-collar sentiments of classic rock radio. Kurt Vile channels this hangdog charm effortlessly, scrawling wayward little vocal melodies like the one on "Breathin Out" with the ease of a hesher Bob Pollard. Sections of Constant Hitmaker are bogged down with a few too many pedals-and-loops sound collages, but for most of the ride, Constant Hitmaker/God Is Saying This To You ambles dreamily along a perfect midway point between the disorientingly weird and the comfortingly familiar.

— Jayson Greene, April 24, 2009

kurt vile will be opening for sonic youth in philly

i have never ever heard such beautiful music in my life
kurt is god.

The Hunchback 12" is the best I've heard so far.

what does kurt have to do with the violators?
am i missing something?

interesting so far what I've heard I like. Freak Train personal favorite so far...
anybody got a freebie download?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Nf59X22m4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZginGZJqU

yes

haha

I think I really really love Kurt Vile.

me too!


hes got a new ep out now called square shells.
cant wait to hear that

Yeah, he can do no wrong really.

Vile was my favorite artist of last year. was happy to get one of his last copies of _God is Saying This_ from the merch table (a friend tipped me off that he had two copies down on the floor, not on the table).

so who is yr fav artist this year then?
god saying this to you was just repressed
2000 hand numbered copies - i just bought number 667 i think :D
what i cant find is 'constant hitmaker' on vinyl..

the new minialbum is super super good. again.
cant get enough of him

this is where i got my copy last year,
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/107232

New ep is awesome!!!! Damn! This guy is awesome.

You guys all know his band THE WAR ON DRUGS, right?

I really think this guy is going to be huge. Just really really fucking brilliant, topnotch, endlessly awesome stuff. One of the few artists worth the hype.

i like him

i agree with every word you said here!

I got the new album this morning. Really enjoying it so far.

his new album is amazing. peeping tomboy is one of my all time favs
saw him live in philly this past friday at aka music. such a laid back mellow guy

Puppet To The Man is a good song. I'm not really into the new album. Seems like he turned into... dad rock. I still spin the Hunchback every now and then.

dad rock.


what a vile term.




this new LP is his best yet.

Anyone know how his live line-up looks like on this tour?

Gonna see him on Thursday this week.

i'm thinking it's the same Violators lineup as he's had...Adam doesn't start the TWAD tour until after the Mascis tour, i am pretty sure.

Kurt Vile - What's In My Bag? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb4BkiqTLHI
Kurt Vile And The Violators - In My Baby's Arms - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbfegHxLYaU
Kurt Vile And The Violators - Jesus Fever - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIgC2zadcus
Kurt Vile - Ghost Town - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE3C06yf4Xw
Kurt Vile And The Violators - Monkey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYc_dvqSWQY

not diggin the new album that much as his earlier work...
bit boring imo. it has some really really good songs on it but some really lame ones too (jesus fever for exapmle)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/left-un...th/5514374014/

Nice pictures.

Thanks for those links.

good show Saturday night...the band sounded good, even w/ the Adam replacement playing a Fender Bass IV.

i'm a few years behind as usual so this is the first time i've come across him.

quite like the album, the 1st track is really good. Reminds me of Jim O quite a bit