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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - No Second Thoughts 
Gary Numan - Are 'friends' Electric?
David Byrne - My Big Hands (Fall Through The Cracks) 
Randy Newman - Baltimore 
Tim Buckley - Home To Stay 
The Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider 
The Byrds - Truckstop Girl 
The Flamin Groovies - Whiskey Woman 
Rowland Howard and Nikki Sudden – A Quick Thing 
Syd Barret - Opel 
Pink Floyd - Green Is The Colour 
Aphrodite's Child - Take Your Time 
Bill Fay - Warwick Town 
Big Star - Stroke It Noel 
Michael Chapman - You Say 
Miles Davis - Here Come De Honey Man 
David Bowie - Art Decade 
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts 
Prince - Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) 
Lou Reed - Charley's Girl 
Royal Trux - Waterpark 
The Rolling Stones - 100 Years Ago 
Aphrodite's Child - Valley Of Sadness 
Ween - Lullabye 



KV Mixtape

Like Exploding Stones

Hey Like A Child

Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)

(watch my moves)

Flyin (like a fast train)

Another good year for the roses

Back to Moon Beach

Cool Water (Single Mix)

Touched somethin (caught a virus)

Must Be Santa

Tom Petty’s gone (but tell him i asked for him)

Sins of My Youth

classic love

Classic Love (ep)

slow talkers '22

classic love (kv version)

hit of the highlife

wildflower

Life Like This

b'lieve i'm goin down...

Lost my Head there

I'm an Outlaw

Wakin On A Pretty Daze

Never Run Away

Wakin on a Pretty Day

Girl Called Alex

Smoke Ring For My Halo

Baby's Arms

Pretty Pimpin

Childish Prodigy

Blackberry Song

Feel My Pain

Dust Bunnies

God Is Saying This to You…

My Sympathy

Loading Zones

Bassackwards

One Trick Ponies

Bottle It In

Check Baby

How Lucky

How Lucky (feat. John Prine)

Over Everything

Since his earliest self-produced CD-Rs, Philadelphia psych-pop master Kurt Vile has referred to himself as "Philly's Constant Hitmaker"—and while he gave himself that name with a sly wink, he was also nodding toward the songwriting prowess that would result in him becoming one of his home city's most celebrated rock artists. "I’m always thinking about catchy music, even though it’s fried, or sizzled, out," he says. "It's my own version of a classic thing—it's moving forward and backward at the same time." 
On his latest album, (watch my moves), Vile pulls his talents as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer in unexpected directions—and the result is a vibrant, yet meditative album propelled by Vile's laid-back charm and curious spirit. Every lyric has been chiseled down into an aphorism, every bloom of distorted guitar or murmuring synth helping create that "fried" pop. "It's about songwriting. It's about lyrics. It's about being the master of all domains in the music," he says of his ninth album and first in partnership with a major label, Verve Records.
(watch my moves) comes from a period when Vile, whose touring and recording schedule during the 2010s was seemingly constant, stayed in one place. His mind was always swirling, though, puzzling out pointillistic lyrics, dreaming up spit-shined choruses, and checking in on other dimensions. "My favorite pastime these days is sitting drinking coffee in the morning post-breakfast by the window, reading and listening to Sun Ra, sun shining through the forest trees," says Vile. "In that moment, it's all the traveling I'll ever need. This record encapsulates all that—letting two years roll by and staying in my zone, traveling all the while in my brain, at the piano or in my guitar."

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