Kurt Vile

Kurt Vile premieres animated video for “Life Like This”

b’lieve i’m goin down…, Kurt Vile’s upcoming album, is set to be released on September 25 through Matador. After releasing “Pretty Pimpin’,” he has premiered the video for “Life Like This.” What begins as a few hints of animation added to footage of Vile in the studio to a fully animated psychedelic adventure. It was animated and directed by Adam Avilla.

In a statement, Avilla said “Life Like This” is “a story about getting at the heart of inspiration and the surreal disjointed journey that the pursuit entails.” He also said: “I feel that artists of all disciplines can relate to such a notion of getting pleasantly (or sometimes unpleasantly) lost in your own thoughts, and from them reap inspiration for our best work.”

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. The Bleeding Heart Show – The New Pornographers

2. Nearly Midnight, Honolulu – Neko Case

3. This is Love (Feels Alright) – Camera Obscura

4. Clean Slate – M. Ward

5. Tamer Animals – Other Lives

6. Gun Shy – Widowspeak

7. Carissa – Sun Kil Moon

8. Black Water – Timber Timbre

9. There Can Only Be One – Cass McCombs

10. Baby’s Arms – Kurt Vile

11. From the Sun – Unknown Mortal Orchestra

12. Unless You Speak From Your Heart – Porcelain Raft

13. Sparkly – Young Magic

14. Try to Be – Blue Hawaii

15. The Rat – the Walkmen

16. Plumage – Menomena

17. I Say Fever – Ramona Falls

18. Beach – Peter Wolf Crier

19. WHALE – Yellow Ostrich

20. Forest Whitaker – Bad Books

Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist