Kurt Vile talks new album, making “banjo songs”

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Kurt Vile has given the first indication towards how his new, sixth album is shaping up.

In a new interview with SPIN, the Philadelphian provided an update on the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Wakin on a Pretty Daze’.

Citing “pretty finger-pickers”, “the electric song” and “piano songs”, he also told the publication to expect “banjo songs”. “Everything you can imagine I’ve done… That’s where I’m at now,” he said.

Sessions have been taking place in Brooklyn, Athens, Los Angeles and Joshua Tree’s Rancho de la Luna. “It’s a really vibey house,” he explained. “A house with ProTools. At first there were definitely challenges because you want to play live but there’s only this one backroom and everything bleeds into everything else, so essentially I was just playing in this little closet room, but I recorded one of my favorite songs ever.”

Read the full interview here.