Back in April, when asked what her current guilty pleasure was, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon replied: “Listening to Kurt Vile's latest CD, Childish Prodigy. Guilty because I listen to it too much...”. Just about one month and Kurt Vile brings another guilty pleasure for us all: Square Shells Ep. A relatively long EP, given the fact that it’s sort of squeezed in between his own solo album and his band’s (The Violators) upcoming album.
Guilty because this seven-tracks long studio material is well worth the repeat button. Sure, it doesn’t veer away from the stylistic line of Childish Prodigy. It’s just as lo-fi and distorted in sound (yet somehow brighter) and the vocals seem to be drunken ramblings. Opening piece Ocean City, a majestic instant-anthem folk ballad, is quickly followed by a delirious seven minute long track, Invisibility: Nonexistent, that is part catchy pop (the vocals are cleaner here) and part psychedelic maverick. What follows goes along the lines imposed by the first song. Yes, he wrote a song called Losing Momentum (For Jim Jarmusch) that feels like part of a Lynch or Cronenberg film soundtrack. And yes, The Finder has a heavy dose of lo-fi electronica. But the other three tracks are dreamy folk jams that make perfect soundtracks for lazy bright afternoons.
Which is why we should all just thank Kurt Ville for delivering us another great recording and just press the play button.
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