Today Kurt Vile (real name) released details of his upcoming album, and its first single, 'Pretty Pimpin'.
b’lieve i'm goin down will be released on September 25th on Matador Records. Watch the 'Pretty Pimpin' video below.
1. Pretty Pimpin 2. I'm an Outlaw 3. Dust Bunnies 4. That's Life, tho (almost hate to say) 5. Wheelhouse 6. Life Like This 7. All In a Daze Work 8. Lost My Head There 9. Stand Inside 10. Bad Omens 11. Kidding Around 12. Wild Imagination
b'lieve i'm goin down... is Vile's sixth album, and shows Kurt both deeply introspective and briskly self-assured. As longtime fan Kim Gordon wrote about the album: "Kurt does his own myth-making; a boy/man with an old soul voice in the age of digital everything becoming something else, which is why this focused, brilliantly clear and seemingly candid record is a breath of fresh air. Recorded and mixed in a number of locations, including Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, b'lieve i'm goin down... is a handshake across the country, east to west coast, thru the dustbowl history ("valley of ashes") of woody honest strait forward talk Guthrie, and a cali canyon dead still nite floating in a nearly waterless landscape. The record is all air, weightless, bodyless, but grounded in convincing authenticity, in the best version of a singer songwriter up cycling."
Here are a couple interviews Kurt did while recording the album, to get a sense where he's coming from: ROLLING STONE, SPIN
iTunes and Amazon MP3 pre-orders both have an instant grat download of 'Pretty Pimpin' as well as two pre-order-only bonus tracks that disappear on release: 'b'lieve i'm goin down' and 'bad omens (no faders)'.
KURT VILE + THE VIOLATORS TOUR DATES:
October 02 - BOSTON, MA - The Paradise * # 03 - AUSTIN, TX - Austin City Limits 04 - AUSTIN, TX - Austin City Limits 07 - NEW YORK, NY - Webster Hall * # 08 - WASHINGTON, DC - 9:30 Club * # 09 - PHILADELPHIA, PA - Union Transfer * # 10 - AUSTIN, TX - Austin City Limits 11 - AUSTIN, TX - Austin City Limits 14 - LOS ANGELES, CA - Fonda Theater % 16 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Fillmore % 17 - PORTLAND, OR - Crystal Ballroom % 18 - SEATTLE, WA - The Showbox % 21 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Mill City Lights * # 23 - CHICAGO, IL - Thalia Hall * # 24 - DETROIT, MI - St. Andrew's Hall * # 25 - TORONTO, ON - Phoenix Theatre * # 30 - PARIS - Pitchfork Festival 31 - AMSTERDAM - London Calling @ Paradiso *
November 01 - BRUSSELS - Autumn Falls @ AB-Box * 03 - HAMBURG - Uebel & Gefahrlich * 04 - AARHUS - Voxhall 05 - OSLO - Rockefeller 06 - STOCKHOLM - Munchenbryggeriet * 07 - COPENHAGEN - Amerbio * 09 - BERLIN - Postbahnhof * 10 - KOLN - Gebaeude 9 * 11 - BRIGHTON - Concorde 2 * 12 - LONDON - Electric Ballroom 13 - BRISTOL - Motion * 15 - DUBLIN - Vicar Street * 16 - GLASGOW - ABC1 * 17 - LEEDS - Leeds University Stylus * 18 - MANCHESTER - The Ritz * 20 - LUCERNE - Sudpol * 21 - LYON - Epicerie Moderne * 22 - BARCELONA - Apolo * 23 - MADRID - Penelope * 24 - LISBON - Armasem F *
* with Waxahatchee # with Luke Roberts & with Cass McCombs and Heron Oblivion
