“Kurt Vile's albums draw you in with the vibe, but you return to them for their human qualities, the way they offer a manner of seeing the world. His tossed-off musings on b’lieve i’m goin down remind you that every sage worth a damn knew that life was absurdly funny and tragic simultaneously.”
“The new Kurt Vile album begins, like many great yarns, in medias res. The poet-king of Philadelphia is at an airport somewhere in North America, pondering the prospects of his own mortality and a cold beer, when an epiphany hits him: “Listenin’ to ‘Heart of Gold’/Gonna open up for Neil Young,” he muses over a simple piano figure. “Man, life can sure be fun.” A horn section adds a stately fanfare f”
“Philly singer-songwriter and folk rocker Kurt Vile comes through with a more skeletal, intimate album on B'lieve I'm Goin Down...”
