b'lieve i'm goin down...
by Kurt Vile
- Type: Album
- Released: 25 September 2015
- Label: Matador
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:00:54
- Community rating: 3.75/5 from 11 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'b'lieve i'm goin down...', Kurt Vile shifts towards a more intimate, late-night sound, trading dense guitar jams for concise arrangements built around acoustic guitar, banjo, and piano. The album's lyrical focus is introspective and observational, exploring themes of self-reflection, everyday existentialism, and domestic solitude with his signature detached drawl and dark humor. Produced primarily by Vile and Rob Laakso across ten different studios, the record maintains a cohesive yet varied lo-fi atmosphere that complements its meditative and melancholy tone.
Genres
Descriptors: lo-fi, slacker, storytelling, dusty, reverb-heavy, acoustic, jangly, droning, melodic
Tracklist
- Pretty Pimpin (04:58)
- I'm an Outlaw (04:21)
- Dust Bunnies (04:38)
- That's Life, tho (almost hate to say) (06:26)
- Wheelhouse (06:14)
- Life Like This (04:04)
- All in a Daze Work (04:59)
- Lost my Head there (06:55)
- Stand Inside (05:12)
- Bad Omens (02:50)
- Kidding Around (04:27)
- Wild Imagination (05:50)
Credits
- Kurt Vile - performer [players], producer, banjo, guitar
- Creston Spiers - performer [players]
- Farmer Dave Scher - performer [players]
- Jesse Trbovich - performer [players], producer
- Kyle Spence - performer [players], producer
- Rob Laakso - performer [players], producer, bass
- Stella Mozgawa - performer [players], drums
- Vince Nudo - performer [players]
- Genevieve Schatz - vocals [additional vocalists]
- Jenny Lee Lindberg - vocals [additional vocalists]
- Kevin Morbey - vocals [additional vocalists]
- Paul Vile - vocals [additional vocalists]
- Gary Burden - art direction, design
- Jenice Heo - art direction, design
- Mike Zimmerman (2) - layout
- Greg Calbi - mastered by
- Steve Fallone - mastered by [assistance]
- Rob Schnapf - producer, mixing
- Peter Katis - mixed by