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Apr 15, 2022It’s a sprawling, sublime collection which rivals B’lieve in the context of Vile’s largely unimpeachable discography.
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Apr 22, 2022On (watch my moves), sticking to what he knows is all the fuel Vile needs for lift-off.
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Apr 20, 2022He’s “hip” to everything, but seeking his own brand of freedom, and his ability to connect with so many different influences and filter it all through his own matrix and have it come out like a concoction that is an extension of his person is a sublime artistic gift indeed.
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Apr 18, 2022His records aren’t hard to love, but this one just throws itself at you. ... Even the bad vibes – lysergic imagery, a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Wages of Sin – can’t harsh the fundamental loveliness of Vile’s offering.
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Apr 14, 2022With (watch my moves), Kurt Vile possibly creates indie rock's first ambient masterwork, a piece of art that is surprisingly and lovingly languid, even for the king of slack.
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Apr 14, 2022The sounds will be familiar (even comforting) to longtime fans, but there are so many unpredictable turns and head-scratching moments that Vile ends up taking his music somewhere new by approaching the same kind of songwriting he's been doing since he started from unlikely angles.
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Apr 13, 2022This record shows that Vile isn’t about to abandon the formula that’s served him so well since he left The War On Drugs over a decade ago. It packs that wholesome, easy charm he’s always held, almost as if the songs fell out of his brain while he was strumming away on his back porch.
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MojoApr 12, 2022Constant hitmaker or beautiful waste of time: like all great alchemists, Kurt Vile proves you can be both. [May 2022, p.87]
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UncutApr 12, 2022Far from reining it in on his major label debut, he's stretching out even further. [May 2022, p.36]
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Apr 15, 2022We have heard many albums about the pandemic and life within it, but this is more about about life after it; how to pick up the pieces of the lives we had before it and transform them into this new life that just relentlessly goes on. Vile’s music is attuned to the unrelenting progression of life.
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Apr 15, 2022(watch my moves) finds Vile connecting with his friends and idols alike, but more than anything, it finds him staying connected to himself—his identity as an artist.
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Apr 21, 2022This record does nothing to convince Kurt Vile skeptics to jump on the bandwagon, but for the already-converted it will also do nothing to drive them away. Indeed, this is certainly one of the singer-songwriter’s stronger efforts, even coming eight LPs into his solo career.
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Apr 15, 2022The deeper Vile gets into his career, the more his creative process seems to blend with the results.
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Apr 14, 2022For an album winding in length, it doesn’t outstay its welcome; if the jump to a major means more lovingly fashioned breeziness like this, then so much the better.
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Apr 13, 2022He stretches out and gets comfortable on his loosey-goosiest jams to date, handing out 74 minutes of mellow wisdom off the dome. He’s wisely stopped searching for the next level up, focusing instead on the beautifully unfocused be-here-now beatitude that’s always been his greatest gift.
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Apr 12, 2022Ricocheting through the wandering quips and rustic palette of Watch My Moves, Vile resists any temptation to curtail his free-roaming private wilderness, doubling down on the ambling strand of songwriting sure to sate seasoned listeners.
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Jun 4, 2022Awesome album. Feels very fresh. Just what I wanted to be listening to right now. Thanks Kurt