I don’t picture Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile “announcing” stuff so much as I picture him just kind of… yawning stuff out… over a shitty connection on speaker phone… from his seat on the toilet. So, I guess just picture all of that when I tell you (that Pitchfork told me) that Vile is ever-so-passively “back on the scene” with a new album due April 9 for Matador. The new one, which follows up the full-length yawn of 2011’s Smoke Ring for my Halo (TMT Review), is titled Wakin on a Pretty Daze.
Below, you can check out the new album’s opening track, “Wakin on a Pretty Day” (yeah), as well as some visuals from a short documentary that was made about the album’s cover art. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I bet there’s some guitar noodling on it, if you’re into noodles. Oh, and he’s also hitting the road this spring (with stops at big-ass fests like Primavera and Coachella) with the likes of The Fresh & Onlys and Angel Olsen. Damn, is it just me, or does this guy get more done from the toilet than I do in an entire year?
Wakin on a Pretty Daze tracklisting:
01. Wakin on a Pretty Day
02. KV Crimes
03. Was All Talk
04. Girl Called Alex
05. Never Run Away
06. Pure Pain
07. Too Hard
08. Shame Chamber
09. Snowflakes Are Dancing
10. Air Bud
11. Goldtone
Tourin on some pretty days:
04.14.13 - Indio, CA - Coachella
04.21.13 - Indio, CA - Coachella
05.04-05.13 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival
05.07.13 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *!
05.08.13 - San Francisco, CA - Independent *!
05.10.13 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir *!
05.11.13 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore *!
05.12.13 - Seattle, WA - Neumos *!
05.14.13 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall !
05.16.13 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom !#
05.17.13 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair !#
05.18.13 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer !#
05.24.13 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
05.25.13 - London, UK - Field Day
05.26.13 - Brussels, Belgium - AB
05.27.13 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05.28.13 - Hamburg, Germany - Knust
05.29.13 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Amager Bio
* The Fresh & Onlys
! Steve Gunn
# Angel Olsen
• Kurt Vile: http://www.kurtvile.com
• Matador: http://www.matadorrecords.com
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