Bottle It In
The ranging album from the Philadelphia songwriter adopts a drifting mind as its emotional compass. There’s no rush to get where he’s going, and he rarely checks to see if you’re still following along.
Lengthier and less polished than recent albums, this is one of Vile's finest albums to date
The mellow master’s seventh studio album is an expansive odyssey that proves he’s an idiosyncratic one-off
His latest album is funny, moody, mordant and beautiful, capped by ten-minute songs that feel like epic stoner dramas
Kurt Vile is ever the buzzed, backseat philosopher on his third record, while Canadian country artist Colter Wall paints a stark yet beautiful picture of home on 'Songs of the Plains'
Following the dusky wandering of 2015's B'lieve I'm Goin Down... and the sometimes cloying 2017 Courtney Barnett collaboration Lotta Sea Lice, restless workingman Kurt Vile looked to his time in transit for his seventh album, Bottle It In.
Travel changes people, that's no secret. It gives us a chance to reflect on our relationships and gain perspective on what really matters. F...
Kurt Vile's latest album, Bottle It In, stretches across a long-winded 79 minutes. An album of such length would typically meet a great deal of criticisms, a drawn-out and wearisome divergence of windows-down freeway rock: this is Vile's forte, though, an
After last year’s collaboration with Courtney Barnett, ‘Lotta Sea Lice’, here we have an album about, among other things, journeys,
Vile is quick to conjure up a bevy of interesting images or ideas but struggles to find a compelling way to contain them.
In 2016, Kurt Vile and Matador Records were awarded their first Billboard number one with
Kurt Vile 'Bottle It In' album review by Beth Andralojc. The full-length comes out on October 12th, via Matador Records, and other streaming services
Some well-chosen new flavours including jazzy improv enhance Vile’s facility with melody, underneath the stoner elements
Rising alt-Americana artist continues to consolidate his reputation. Review by Thomas H Green.