ALBUM"It's a Big World Out There (and I Am Scared)"Kurt Vile
ALBUMWakin On a Pretty Daze (Deluxe Daze [Post Haze])Kurt Vile
ALBUMSo Outta ReachKurt Vile
ALBUMSmoke Ring For My HaloKurt Vile
ALBUMSquare ShellsKurt Vile
ALBUMChildish ProdigyKurt Vile
ALBUMGod Is Saying This to You...Kurt Vile
ALBUMConstant HitmakerKurt Vile
Kurt Vile's Popular Music Videos
Baby's Arms (feat. The Sadies)
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Pretty Pimpin
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One Trick Ponies
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Loading Zones
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Life Like This
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Bassackwards (Still Video)
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Like Exploding Stones
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Run Run Run (Radio Edit)
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How Lucky (feat. John Prine)
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Flyin (like a fast train)
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Artist Playlists
Kurt Vile Essentials
Laidback, atmospheric and low-key slacker-pop gems.
Kurt Vile: Influences
His roots reveries channel slack indie rock and mystical jazz.
About Kurt Vile
Artist Biography
Singer-songwriter Kurt Vile presents himself as the kind of guy who could take it or leave it. It’s not that he doesn’t try (his albums constitute some of the most exquisitely composed indie rock of the 2010s), but that his work sounds so off-the-cuff, so casual that you wonder if it all just occurred to him—what the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector described (in another context) as “simplicity with enormous effort.” Born in 1980 and raised with nine siblings in the Philadelphia suburb of Landsdowne, Vile (his real name) briefly drove a forklift before cofounding The War on Drugs with friend Adam Granduciel, leaving the band in 2008 to work on his own music. Influenced by the slanted Americana of labels like Drag City, he released a couple of home-recorded albums before making the jump to indie institution Matador in 2009, honing a quietly majestic sound that mixed classic-rock extroversion with Zen-like inner monologue, collapsing the distance between the plain (“To be frank, I’m fried”) and the profound. It’s a quality that—like the work of collaborator Courtney Barnett, with whom Vile made 2017’s joint album Lotta Sea Lice—can make Vile’s writing feel almost uncanny, rendering the everyday as something you haven’t quite seen before. In other words, he’s an artist who can write a song about looking in the mirror (2015’s “Pretty Pimpin”) and make the person in it seem a million miles away.
Hometown
Lansdowne, PA, United States
Genre
Alternative
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