Kurt Vile - Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me (2026)
di Gianfranco Marmoro More than a declining arc, what followed the two most accomplished albums by the American singer-songwriter and former War On Drugs member Kurt Vile was an identity crisis. The two records released in 2011 and 2013, "Smoke Ring For My Halo" and "Waking On A Pretty Daze", had the merit of showcasing the musician's expressive complexity - rough and powerful yet also lazily reflective - but the patchy signals of his subsequent output confined his career to a steady listlessness that, while never collapsing into mediocrity, seemed destined for an honest routine. Il nuovo album,“Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me”, non sfugge ai cliché del cantautore americano, ennesimo saggio poetico lievemente scomposto, come se fosse stato elaborato durante un flusso di memorie e sensazioni dai contorni mai ben definiti, eppur non privi di sprazzi di luce e colore, che in questo caso funzionano più del solito. Sarà la natura più personale delle liriche, o una p...