PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – Indie rock artist Kurt Vile has been teasing his upcoming new album – (watch my moves) – with a couple of single drops lately.
His latest is the pensive, flashback track, “Mount Air Hill (Way Gone),” where we see Vile deliver a reminising vocal croon together with light guitars mixed to a laid-back groove.
The just-dropped revealing new video depicts a wandering Vile coming to terms with himself and his past as he skateboards through Mount Airy Hill‘s streets and experiences hallucinations in the woods. His childhood hometown is a suburb of Philadelphia.
The video and single follow the release of “Like A Child” earlier this month and “Like Exploding Stones” in February, coinciding with the announcement of the album.
It’s hard to believe that the otherwise prolific multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer last released new material in 2018 with the album Bottle In.
The new album, his ninth, is set for release on April 15 via Verve Records – his first release with the label.
In a statement regarding the DIY-produced album – recorded in Vile’s home studio known as OKV Central – Vile writes: “When Waylon Jennings became an outlaw country artist, he liked to record at Hillbilly Central, which was Tompall Glaser’s studio. OKV Central is my version of that in Mount Airy.
“I’ve come into my own here, and at the same time I’m getting back to my home-recording roots.”
Vile and his band will kick-off a multiple-city tour across the U.K. and Ireland beginning August 26 at London’s All Points East festival.