Blog: The Tripwire

Interview by Chris Ruen Photography by Dorothy Hong Though the spot in the venn diagram where "lo-fi," "psych," and "bedroom" meet up has been effectively mobbed over the past couple of years, Philadelphia's Kurt Vile has been graced with a talent for differentiation. While many artists shyly hide their disaffected voices below layers of reverb, Vile proudly hollers through the aural decay. Where others mask their casually strummed guitars and chord changes under oceans of delay pedal, Vile [...]