Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin down... (2 Lp's)Kurt Vile scored a genuine word of mouth hit with his fifth album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, its elongated rambles conjuring hazy half memories of Laurel Canyon while feeling uniquely situated to modern confines. B'lieve I'm Goin Down, released two years after that 2013 breakthrough, whittles away some of the excesses while retaining eccentricity, trading ten minute sprawls with six strings for woozy five minute vamps on a piano. Electric guitars aren't

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Led Zeppelin - those bands haven't influenced us in any way

slowly sinking down in the Mediterranean Sea

intimate approach

adding an additional 30 tracks--including an entire second CD of b-sides

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The Adolescents were perhaps the first of this second wave to put out an LP widely distributed throughout the U

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Soft meets sharp and harsh rubs up against tender on songs like "Surgeon" and "Cruel

" Zappa combines avant garde music

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experiment with Middle Eastern and psychedelic sounds with a more direct (almost traditional) rock approach