Kurt Vile Bottle It In

Kurt Vile Bottle It InFollowing the dusky wandering of 2015's B'lieve I'm Goin Down and the sometimes cloying 2017 Courtney Barnett collaboration Lotta Sea Lice, restless workingman Kurt Vile looked to his time in transit for his seventh album, Bottle It In. The songs here were recorded over the course of two years in various studios and locations across the U. S., and Vile assembled them between tours and road trip vacations with his family. That sense of motion touches

Recorded at Skyline Studios

an album that should not only quiet accusations of sonic sameness but win over new fans

it becomes clear that every deadpan affectation

self-doubt

when the gliding/chugging beat stammers and switches to a delirious strut

selling well over five digits in 1981 (following on the heels of San Francisco's Dead Kennedys

and percussion dancing within the electronic frameworks

The performances on Leave Home are tighter and better focused than they were on Ramones

In addition to the 12 classics assembled onto this single LP

Released: 05/1/2020

Released: 10/14/2022

Twenty One Pilots definitely have a formula for both songwriting and production that renders some of the songs here slightly redundant