Kurt, Agnes, Val and The Alcoholic.

This Philly-bloke Kurt Vile has been buzzing in my radar the past week, showing up here and there, and I decided to check him out. He's pretty good - really chill. I'm constantly on the lookout for chill stuff these days, I guess its fall making me sombre. Try and check out 'Blackberry Song', which is a really enjoyable tune. The only thing I'm not crazy about is the vocal mix - why does it have to sound purposely sloppy and low? No thanks.


Berlin-based musical amazon Agnes Obel has garnered some pretty serious reviews for her new album, and 'Brother Sparrow' was on the Soundvenue High 5 until recently. It's a really graceful and pleasant tune. 


The National's songs come creeping and crawling one by one these days, and right now, it's 'Val Jester' off Alligator, another good example of Matt Berninger's tremendously timely and witty lyrics:

All the most important people in New York are nineteen.

Guess it only goes down from here huh? Anyway, it's incredible how Berninger is able to very accurately and touchingly describe feelings that he hasn't necessarily had. He's an astonishing ghost-writer of sorts.


Finally, lets conclude with a group that has somewhat gone only ever downwards from their magnificent debut. It's Röyksopp, who just released their fourth full-length, Senior, which didn't really impress me. 'The Alcoholic' however is pretty sweet!