Kurt Vile

It takes about the first four bars of rattled, warped rock ‘n’ roll on ‘Childish Prodigy’ to read Kurt Vile like a textbook - a thorough one. His music is to the American rock narrative a lysergic sheen on the surface of a well - one that was sprung with Dylan and Young and filled over the years as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Richard Hell, Stephen Malkmus, Beck and many others spilled their sometime bedroom compositions into the mainstream.