Kurt Vile - CHILDISH PRODIGY - CD

Personnel: Kurt Vile (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, resonator guitar, baritone guitar, banjo, harmonica, trumpet, piano, synthesizer, drum machine, electronics, sampler); Adam Granduciel (electric guitar, 12-string guitar, baritone guitar, synthesizer, drums, percussion, electronics, sampler); Mike Z (drums, percussion); Mikele Edwards (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Jeff Zeigler . Kurt Vile's long-haired hippy appearance may suggest West Coast roots, but his sound comes straight out of the underbelly of the Big Apple. With a slack-singing style reminiscent of Lou Reed or Alan Vega and his vocals doused in slap-back reverb, the songs on CHILDISH PRODIGY shift between gritty numbers driven by guitar fuzz and steady ballads backed by one-key baritone drones. If this sounds a bit derivative of the Velvets, well, it is and it isn't. Vile and his backing band The Violators are knowledgeable students of the CBGB school of roc