Blog: Chickens Don't Clap!

Kurt Vile , perhaps best known as guitarist and co-songwriter behind the hazy, psychedelic roots rock of Philadelphia's The War On Drugs , just recently signed to Matador Records and is set to release his next album, Childish Prodigy , this fall. Past works have been mostly characterized by psych-pop filtered through hushed bedroom-folk atmospherics, but the man isn't afraid to occasionally flex his ability to write stone cold anthems. "Freeway", album opener for his noteworthy debut Constant Hitmaker , soars like the best songs from The War on Drugs. Atop a tin-can [...]

• Kurt Vile - Freeway