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KURT VILE
to release new album
(watch my moves)

OUT APRIL 15 
via Verve Records / Virgin Music Australia

+ First single + video
‘LIKE EXPLODING STONES’ 
Out Now

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Acclaimed musician, songwriter and producer Kurt Vile will release his highly-anticipated new album (watch my moves) on April 15 – his first in partnership with Verve Records / Virgin Music Australia. The album’s first single, ‘Like Exploding Stones’ is out today—watch the official music video, featuring Sun Ra Arkestra’s James Stewart, below…

Recorded mainly at OKV Central – Vile’s newly-created home studio in the Mount Airy neighbourhood of Philadelphia – (watch my moves) was self-produced along with help from longtime collaborator Rob Schnapf (Richard Thompson, Elliott Smith).

“When Waylon Jennings became an outlaw country artist, he liked to record at Hillbilly Central, which was Tompall Glaser’s studio,” Vile explains. “OKV Central is my version of that in Mount Airy. I’ve come into my own here, and at the same time I’m getting back to my home-recording roots.”

In addition to Schnapf, Vile’s longtime band The Violators, and James Stewart, the album features special guests Chastity Belt, Cate Le Bon and percussionists Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett) and Sarah Jones (Hot Chip, Harry Styles). 

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Across the album’s 15 tracks – which includes 14 originals as well as a version of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Wages of Sin’ – Vile pulls his talents in unexpected directions. The result is a vibrant, yet meditative album propelled by his trademark laid-back charm and curious spirit. Every lyric has been chiseled down into an aphorism, every bloom of distorted guitar or murmuring synth helping create that “fried” pop.

“It’s about songwriting. It’s about lyrics. It’s about being the master of all domains in the music,” Vile says. “I’m always thinking about catchy music, even though it’s fried, or sizzled, out. It’s my own version of a classic thing—it’s moving forward and backward at the same time.”  

(watch my moves) is Vile’s ninth solo full-length studio album and first since Bottle It In, which Rolling Stone named #9 on their “50 Best Albums of 2018” list: “The long-haired poet-king of Philadelphia surveys his realm in high style on this 78-minute whopper…virtually no one else was making rock records like this…”

Additionally, The New York Times calls him “indie rock’s charming riddle,” while The Guardian says: “such an instinctive facility for melodic logic that behind the shaggy locks and purple haze, there’s a clear-headed, big-hearted songwriter at work.”

In addition to his solo work, Vile has collaborated with numerous artists including John Prine, Courtney Barnett, The War on Drugs and The Sadies, and is featured on last year’s compilation I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Vile currently lives in the Mount Airy neighbourhood with his wife and two daughters. 

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Kurt Vile – ‘Like Exploding Stones’
Single out now – taken from forthcoming album (watch my moves), 
out April 15 via Verve Records / Virgin Music Australia
STREAM ‘LIKE EXPLODING STONES

(watch my moves)
Tracklist..

1. Goin on a Plane Today
2. Flyin (like a fast train)
3. Palace of OKV in Reverse
4. Like Exploding Stones
5. Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)
6. Hey Like a Child
7. Jesus on a Wire
8. Fo Sho
9. Cool Water
10. Chazzy Don’t Mind
11. (shiny things)
12. Say the Word
13. Wages of Sin
14. kurt runner
15. Stuffed Leopard

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