What can you say about Kurt Vile. He's quite a difficult one to write about. Much of the time he's just there. Like rocks and trees. The sea and the sky. His latest album Back to Moon Beach sounds like a Kurt Vile album. Much in the way that rocks, trees, sea and sky look not unlike each other.
Listening through to it I found it difficult ro make any really pertinent observations save that it sounded very much like Kurt Vile. Songs content to drag on longer than perhaps than they strictly needed to. The kind of thing you expect to see when you open your dictionary to laidback.
I enjoyed the ride without telling myself at any point that it was essential in any way. Vile is Dylan , the stoned hippie rabbit from classic children's television programme The Magic Roundabout. Curled out under a tree with his guitar wrapped around him, drifting inyo an acid flashback. This I concluded was not one of his greater visions. Hardly Johanna, Back to Moon Beach is more of a lake than a beach really. It hints at murky depths which will surely reward further play. I'm inclined to leave those to the faithful.
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