Kurt Vile announces forthcoming EP, Back to Moon Beach which is set to feature a Charli XCX cover

Following his 2022 album, (watch my moves), the forthcoming release, Back to Moon Beach, collects new songs, one-offs, covers, and newly reworked versions of beloved tracks.

Speaking of the release, Vile says: "Hi! Here’s the opening track from my upcoming ep... ok, it’s longer than an ep... now I call it a KV comp. The first 6 tracks — which are the ones that fit on a single LP — are new to the world, with one foot in the not-too-distant past and the other with one tiny toe pointing toward the future. Together my feet are like a couple spanning time together. This song was started at Stinson Beach, CA in September 2019 for a few days of recording with Rob Laakso, Stella Mozgawa, Chris Cohen, Cate Le Bon (and Adam Langellotti floating as a fly on the wall as well). Adam and I being the two overseers across this entire endeavor: we finished it on our own (and with some friends along the way). We ended up demonically overdubbing for weeks straight at OKV."

The video features a pastoral scene of Kurt and friends in the woods, jamming out, before he joins a new band made up of actors Kevin Corrigan and Michael Shannon for a show at NYC dive Otto’s Shrunken Head.

Mant Sounds — Vile’s go-to recording studio in Los Angeles — was a third and crucial launchpad to ram these sessions home, a familiar spaceship run by Rob Schnapf and often flown by Matt Schuessler as engineer. Somberly, the Stinson Beach material in the collection are some of the final unreleased recordings with Kurt’s longtime creative partner Rob Laakso, prior to his passing in early 2023. Back to Moon Beach is rounded out with a few fan favourites — his covers of Wilco’s “Passenger Side” and Bob Dylan’s Christmas song, “Must Be Santa,” (featuring vocals by Kurt’s daughters Awilda and Delphine Vile).

The forthcoming EP is presented in three ways: a standard vinyl release with six tracks, a digital/CD format with nine tracks, and a deluxe “direct-to-consumer” double-LP with ten tracks, which includes the only place non-Amazon users can hear Kurt’s cover of Charli XCX’s “Constant Repeat”.