Today Kurt Vile (real name) released details of his upcoming album, and its first single, “Pretty Pimpin.” b’lieve i’m goin down… will be released worldwide September 25 on Matador Records. Watch the “Pretty Pimpin” video:

b’lieve i’m goin down… is Vile’s sixth album, and shows Kurt both deeply introspective and briskly self-assured. As longtime fan Kim Gordon wrote about the album: “Kurt does his own myth-making; a boy/man with an old soul voice in the age of digital everything becoming something else, which is why this focused, brilliantly clear and seemingly candid record is a breath of fresh air.  Recorded and mixed in a number of locations, including Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, b’lieve i’m goin down… is a handshake across the country, east to west coast, thru the dustbowl history (“valley of ashes”) of woody honest strait forward talk guthrie, and a cali canyon dead still nite floating in a nearly waterless landscape. The record is all air, weightless, bodyless, but grounded in convincing authenticity, in the best version of singer songwriter upcycling.”
Catch him live here:
October
02 – BOSTON, MA – The Paradise * #
03 – AUSTIN, TX – Austin City Limits
04 – AUSTIN, TX – Austin City Limits
07 – NEW YORK, NY – Webster Hall * #
08 – WASHINGTON, DC – 9:30 Club * #
09 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Union Transfer * #
10 – AUSTIN, TX – Austin City Limits
11 – AUSTIN, TX – Austin City Limits
14 – LOS ANGELES, CA – Fonda Theater
16 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Fillmore
17 – PORTLAND, OR – Crystal Ballroom
18 – SEATTLE, WA – The Showbox
21 – MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Mill City Nights * #
23 – CHICAGO, IL – Thalia Hall * #
24 – DETROIT, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall * #
25 – TORONTO, ONT – Phoenix Theatre * #
30 – PARIS, FR – Pitchfork Festival
31 – AMSTERDAM, NL – London Calling @ Paradiso *
November
01 – BRUSSELS, BE – Autumn Falls @ ABbBox *
03 – HAMBURG, DE – Uebel & Gefahrlich *
04 – AARHUS, DK – Voxhall
05 – OSLO, NO – Rockefeller
06 – STOCKHOLM, SE – Munchenbryggeriet *
07 – COPENHAGEN, DK – Amerbio *
09 – BERLIN, DE – Postbahnhof *
10 – KOLN, DE – Gebaeude 9 *
11 – BRIGHTON, UK – Concorde 2 *
12 – LONDON, UK – Electric Ballroom
13 – BRISTOL, UK – Motion *
15 – DUBLIN, IE – Vicar Street *
16 – GLASGOW, UK – ABC1 *
17 – LEEDS, UK – Leeds University Stylus *
18 – MANCHESTER, UK – The Ritz *
20 – LUCERNE, CH – Sudpol *
21 – LYON, FR – Epicerie Moderne *
22 – BARCELONA, ES – Apolo *
23 – MADRID, ES – Penelope *
24 – LISBON, PT – Armazem F *
* with Waxahatchee
# with Luke Roberts
& with Cass McCombs and Heron Oblivion