Sunday, May 19, 2013
I cant not play my hand at this point (before Dereks gig) as I am too enamoured with this disc to not rave..Definitely the best album of the year for me...I cant claim it is ground breaking or a bold new find, and maybe it shows how I have fallen behind in my music courses , but Kurt Viles new disc wont get out of my bloody cd player.....its the same kind of sound as his last album but generally a more electrified, long winded endless jam session of that sound... granted that sounds like the crappy last disc of All things must pass...but its not... the grooves are endlessly listenable, never tiresome and if anything I want the long songs to go on even longer.....the whole disc works as a single piece of music that endlessly varies twists and turns with underplayed / understated emotion that rings superbly real and true with hooks that pile on hooks...its as if he has deconstructed his sound into its base elements and then he sits back and grooves on it....perhaps the sound of the summer of 2013 for me....
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Wow strong recommendation Stu. I will need to spin this a few more times.....
I listened to this disc two or three times, and while I liked it, I wasn't as smitten as you are. He can really establish a moody groove, and he plays some tasty guitar over those grooves. But after a while there is a sameness to the songs on this album. The overall sound is more or less unchanged from song to song. There is so much effect on both the instruments and the voice that it all sounds very murky, and the result for me is that nothing leaps out and holds my attention. When it is over, I'm not left with any particularly catchy melody or cool riff playing in my head. But while I'm listening to it (as I am right now), it sounds good!
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