Kurt Vile

Kurt Vile has released a new EP called Back to Moon Beach (November 17th via Verve), along with a video for its lead single “Another good year for the roses".

Though Back to Moon Beach is an EP by name, it would be a proper LP for most other artists, clocking in at nearly an hour long and nine tracks. Vile himself says it’s more like a “KV comp,” adding: “The first 6 tracks — which are the ones that fit on a single LP — are new to the world, with one foot in the not-too-distant past and the other with one tiny toe pointing toward the future. Together my feet are like a couple spanning time together.”

“Another good year for the roses” is Back to Moon Beach’s opening track, and Vile began writing it way back in 2019 — when the world was much, much different. Co-produced with Cate Le Bon, who also features on the song along with Stella Mozgawa, the mid-tempo tune as an intentionally lackadaisical feel. “I’m not one quite ready to put it better in a letter/ Which reminds me, one day I’ll sit down and write me a letter,” Vile drawls over a plodding piano and guitar.

The extended EP is made up of tracks taken from various studio sessions over the last four years.