Kurt Vile - Philadelphia's been good to meKurt Vile returns with third release on Verve Records. The album title, Philadelphias 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

Peter Tosh was eager to break free from the shadow of the legendary frontman

Cooper ‰۪s abstract poeticism balanced perfectly alongside Hoare‰۪s alluring & universal pop leanings

The pathos and irony of the glorious track ‘The World Doesn’t Need Another Band’ sets out the band’s store

But whether taken as surface or subtext

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E5 ripples & happy birthday alice

Helena Hauff and countless others

Full of half-captured memories and entangled abstractions

The rest of the album provides the answer as it takes in everything from the unexpectedly funky first single ‘Bend The Round’

"Mambo" was later sampled by Massive Attack

It's certainly a lodestar for Now-Again Records