![]() Kurt’s songwriting echoes his past work, but there are some small additions that make this album feel like a minor evolution in his sound, namely the occasional synthesizers and slightly more progressive song structures. The opening few tracks are nice openers, but it isn’t until the epic “Like Exploding Stones” that the album settles in. While many of his previous albums get by on that through their atmosphere, “(watch my moves)” is one of his catchiest and most memorable batches of songs yet. The flow of his albums make it so that once it is over, you’d want to spin it again. Kurt’s albums continue to sit comfortably over an hour in their runtime, but they never exactly drag on. Maybe it’s the strong emotions I’m feeling as I near graduation, but “(watch my moves)” feels like a warm hug. His lazy, mellow folk rock sounds nice, but it never gripped me. ![]() I have always struggled with Kurt Vile’s music, and I think it largely plays into the fact that I am generally too anxious of a person to entirely engross myself in his slacker attitude. Last week and next week house all of the high profile releases, so I decided to cover a few new releases as well as go back to round up a few I missed earlier in the year. My final week of reviews has finally arrived, and the new releases are somewhat thin. Written By Zachary Wittman, Music Columnist
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