Kurt Vile – Classic Rock Meets Indie in the Ether
In his songs Mr. Viles avant-garde tendencies coexist with a fondness for blockbuster classic rock. Fleetwood Macs Dreams is the most solid song ever, he said. Tom Petty, I Wont Back Down? Bob Seger, Main Street? Ill listen to those songs over and over again. For Gerard Cosloy, an owner of Matador, it was this weird, interesting hybrid that attracted him to Mr. Viles music. He gravitates toward strong songwriting figures he heard in his youth, Mr. Cosloy said, but musically hes on a more experimental and more expansive tip.
