Speed, sound, lonely KV (ep)

"Speed, Sound, Lonely KV is relatively short for a songwriter who regularly turns in albums longer than an hour, but it's a sweet glimpse into the softer side of Vile's personality. It's tender and sad without any of the distance that he sometimes puts between himself and his listener, instead offering just a few uncluttered country-leaning songs that are simple, direct, and a little bit lonely".

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"Vile's music can be reassuring and, at its best, transporting. Featuring both men singing and picking together, "How Lucky" considers all the glorious details in the world that greet us every day, but acknowledges there are infinitely too many for our brains to catalog and archive. The point is, you'll never run out. "There was all these things that I don't think I remember," they sing together on the final verse, before realizing, "Hey, how lucky can one man get." It doesn't feel quite as momentous as you'd expect from a meeting of these two mellow rock and rollers, and that's okay. It's sweetly minor, much like the other songs on here. That might not be enough to sustain a full album, but it's lovely for an EP".

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"For those that have followed Kurt Vile for any length of time, it's well known that Vile was no Johnny-come-lately to the John Prine bandwagon. They shared the stage several times before the devastating loss of Prine earlier this year. And this Prine inspired tribute EP has roots going back to 2016. Most of the songs here were recorded that year at The Butcher Shoppe studio that was founded by Prine and David "Ferg" Ferguson. Prine was not on hand for the initial sessions that included a cover of his "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness," but does appear here for the latest recorded track, "How Lucky"".

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