Kurt Vile returns with third release on Verve Records. The album title, 'Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me', illustrates his love for his home city, where he still resides and records most of his music.

Musically, the album includes everything fans have come to love about KV: jangly guitars, soaring instrumental passages, and lyrics that are both cheeky and sentimental at the same time.

This album depicts a musician who, in spite of having a majorly successful career, has stayed true to his roots and continues to represent artistic integrity.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A brand new suite of laid-back slacker grooves and slo-mo rock from the king of laid-back, Kurt Vile. For a start, the superb video for standout single 'Chance To Bleed' (inc. appearance from Barry & Liam's favourite 19yo alcoholic poet) is brilliant, and it highlights a deep sense of fun and anti-serious tomfoolery. All wrapped in Vile's consistently brilliant musicianship.

Willow says: For his whole career, Kurt Vile has been strongly poised in the Neil Young lineage of cutting-edge country-infused rock guitarists. He has as much right as anyone going, then, to take something of a victory lap ten solo albums deep with Philadelphia's Been Good To Me, which sees Vile showing off all his tricks with some style. From some of the most rocking moments of his solo career to the warm blanket of his familiar, winding woodland drawl, Philadelphia... is one of the strongest statements Vile has made with a record, an endearing boast of his undeniable skill as a songwriter and guitar player. Skronk.

TRACK LISTING

1. Zoom 97
2. 99 BPM
3. Rock ‘o Stone
4. You Don’t Know Cuz It’s My Life
5. Chance to Bleed
6. Philly’s Been Good to Me
7. 99th Song
8. Red Room Dub
9 .Holiday OKV
10. Every Time I Look at You
11. Piano for Sarah
12. Avalanches of Snow