Kurt Vile E.P. Announcement Follows Nz Laneway Billing
Following on from yesterday's exciting news of their first NZ Laneway visit Kurt Vile is happy to announce the release
of "it's a big world out there (and i am scared)" EP / Wakin On A Pretty Daze: Deluxe Daze (Post Haze) Album
Released November 15th on Matador Records
Stream the studio mixtape on SoundCloud
"it's a big world out there (and i am scared)" is the new digital and 12" vinyl EP fromKurt Vile and The Violators, out on November 15th with six of the seven new tracks previously unreleased. The EP was recorded during the same
sessions as the latest album and doubles as the bonus content for the newly announced 2xCD and digital album version ofWakin On A Pretty Daze: Deluxe Daze (Post Haze), also out November 15th.
Today Kurt shares a playlist atKurtVile.com of the mix CD he handed to the Violators and producer John Agnello before heading in to the studio for the recording ofWakin On A Pretty Daze.It's now online along with a message from Kurt (below), you can stream it on SoundCloud.
Still out on the road for shows across North America and Europe, Kurt and The Violators continue touring across Europe
before packing their suitcases to come to New Zealand for the Laneways Festival in Auckland on January 27th.
"it's a big world out there (and i am scared)" track-listing:
Side A
1. Never Run Away (string synth)
2. NRA Reprise
3. Feel My Pain
Side B
4. Snowflakes Extended
5. Wedding Budz
6. The Ghost of Freddie Roach
7. (reprise reprise)
Kurt’s message on the Mixtape:
here is a "mix-tape" that i had been sort-of-conceiving for some time before i actually made it. i would say i made it
mainly to pump myself up. and then my bandmates, extended bandmates, producer, etc… but also to get all my friends that
were involved (at least subliminally) on my wave-length when i needed it most...
by the time the violators and i got back from a 7 week euro/uk tour, sometime in the summer of 2012, it was time to get
back into the studio and the bulk of the "wakin" album done. we had already recorded a good chunk of the
almost-title-track "wakin on a pretty day" before we left, and a few other songs. (another one called "feel my pain," a
stripped-down, ominous folk number, exceptionally meticulous in it's finger-picked arrangement, has since become a
favorite of mine for all it’s rawness... hear it soon on the new ep!)
anyway…
i remember the night before driving up to woodstock to start recording again and laughing to myself that it was so
important i get the right sequence down on this ultimate vinyl-mix (and cd... and cassette!) when i probably had plenty
of fine-tuning needed on my own songs, but hey...
i would jam alot of these mix-tape tunes on the road over n over all the time. from a discman (not kidding) into this
miniature battery-powered vox amp that john agnello gave me as a christmas present. usually in hotel rooms in the wee
hrs, post-gig...
i remember playing "a quick thing" by rowland howard and nikki sudden in
many-a-south-american-hotel-room (over and over) for instance, and getting so deep into it, positively spaced out. cuz
that song's as real as it gets, mind you!
(ps i love nikki sudden but it's all about the rowland howard here as is per uzsch with mr. howard)
i don't want to dissect all my favorite music for everyone. but i sent this mix to my friends involved in my record for
the purpose of loose/good vibes. and then i sent it to some other friends and loved ones. some of whom complimented it,
and of course i was flattered cuz i did work hard on it like a total dork, hah.... i didn't just throw it together.
i don't wanna say all this stuff influenced my record in any obvious way.
but subliminally? most def.
cuz that's life. always influenced by your surroundings.
some top faves (besides "a quick thing") :
bill fay "warwick town"
the byrds "truckstop girl"
flamin groovies "whiskey woman"
"...and all of the rest."
-kv
ENDS