This weekend, alongside Abel Tesfaye’s The Weeknd, they will headline the US’s biggest festival, Coachella – and to mark the occasion, they’re releasing their debut (yes, really) album, Paradise Again.On 7 September 1976, Clapton wrote 'Wonderful Tonight' for Boyd while waiting for her to get ready to attend Paul and Linda McCartney's annual Buddy Holly party.

It is highly probable that you are listening to Swedish House Mafia, the EDM precursors who dominated global dancefloors in the late 2000s and early 2010s, split in 2013 and reformed in 2018.

Possibly you are wearing a toga crafted from a bedsheet, and your bottle of VK Tropical is vibrating in your hand because the throb of bass in the room is so strong. You are 18 years old and in a club called Onyx or Slippy, where the walls are wet and the carpets have long since crusted over. Stream: Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone), Jesus on a Wire, Fo Sho, Cool Water Swedish House Mafia These songs, with their simple melodies and curving, modern-day- Neil Young guitar sounds, are tunes to kick through long grass in. Vile is a songwriter who has never moved at anything but his own pace and his music on (watch my moves) is characterised by a sort of pleasant meandering, tinged as it is with sunlight and the smell of the outdoors. The downcast tone of Vile’s voice vividly conjures the stillness of 2020, often accentuated in the sounds themselves in the warm, roomy production that manages to feel so self-contained. The songs here express emotions shared by most people during that time: “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” provides a moment of reflection on and appreciation for his immediate surroundings the restless, creative energy of “Fo Sho”, with its repetitive riff (“Probably gonna be another long song,” Vile sings lazily on the looping hook, his refusal to take anything too seriously on fine display) and the quietly spiralling “Jesus on a Wire”, featuring the wonderful Cate Le Bon on vocals and piano. Indeed, (watch my moves) represents life at a new frequency for the oft-travellin’ Vile, as the pandemic forced him to stay in one place – at home in Philadelphia, where much of the album was recorded, in his home studio. These opening lyrics are a perfect encapsulation of the record: interested in the quiet rustling of life, and lighting up banalities and laughing about them – Vile’s is an unfussy type of existentialism. “Goin’ on a plane today / Gonna chug a beer and curse my name.” So go the first lines of Kurt Vile’s eighth solo album, his first on major label Verve Records, home also to recent Grammy winner Jon Batiste.

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