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Live Nation presents Grace Carter

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Grace Carter 

“I wanted to make an upbeat confident pop record about depression and being a performer, written from the viewpoint of an artist who has hollowed himself out over a long career in the name of success, an alternate universe version of me, who is left empty and lonely from climbing to the top, but is still only able to express these feelings in the language of confident, performative pop songs.”

As the opening titles give way to the establishing shot, we’re parachuted into our protagonist’s dressing room. He’s watching freshly uploaded footage of himself on stage in front of a theatre of rapt fans. And although that was him less than an hour ago, it really doesn’t seem that way. It might just as easily be a hologram up there for all the connection he feels with that person. We don’t need to guess what our rock star narrator is thinking because I’m Not There – the opening song from Keaton Henson’s new album House Party – is taking care of that: “Baby I just need some time to be myself/Or find out who the hell I might be.” Setting the tone for what follows, the song’s mellifluous janglepop is at once so familiar that it doesn’t sound so much like it was written as siphoned from the underside of your own subconscious when you were asleep.

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Since his earliest selfproduced 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, multiinstrumentalist, and producer in unexpected directions—and the result is a vibrant, yet meditative album propelled by Vile’s laidback 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.  
  
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