Kurt Vile has just released his seventh album. It's called "Bottle It In". Always in the same vein folk-rock that the American masters wonderfully.

With talent and nonchalance, the American Kurt Vile signs with Bottle It In , an exciting and generous seventh album. His drawling voice and his agile guitars work wonders. Here's why there's no cooler than him in today's rock.

Because he has the job physics

Yes, Kurt Vile has all the paraphernalia of the perfect slacker, to understand that lazy, lingering teenage look. Long curly hair, plaid shirt or rock band t-shirt, pouting pout ... And that trailing stamp. But no, Kurt Vile, 38, does not spend his time betting on crows. Far from there. The American would be more like Stakhanovist. "I like to compose late at night, during the night. But ideas come to me all the time, when I'm with my family, with friends ... ", he says on the phone. While minimizing his talent as a composer: "All that is not very interesting. "

Because he prefers to talk about the music of others rather than his own

False modesty or true generosity? Kurt Vile is not very prolix on his own music. On the other hand, talk to him about these musician friends and he becomes talkative. It's like that, more than marveling at Neil Young's opening act - "It was great. He had a huge influence on me, as Bob Dylan " - or his collaboration with the Australian Courtney Barnett, last year, than to dissert on his own music. On his album, he also invited Kim Deal (Pixies, Breeders) and Cass McCombs. "Cass, I always admired him, he made great albums, beautiful songs like County Lin e, You're Not My Dream Girl ... With him, everything was done very quietly, without pressure. It's inevitable.

Because he parks himself in Philadelphia!

This is the weird theme of Loading Zones , the title that opens the album: "It's just a joke about my city, the one where I was born and where I still live. This evokes the feeling of knowing a place like his pocket. But where does his inspiration come from? A big question that Kurt Vile sends quickly: "The inspiration comes from my everyday life, from what happens to my friends. Sometimes it comes consciously, sometimes it's more subliminal. "

Beside the car parks, he also speaks in Hysteria of his fear of flying. "We are so vulnerable up there! I know that it is more likely to die by car but I feel more comfortable ... " Paradoxical for this great traveler who has also composed his new album around the world ... but who also likes to compose at home: "My life as an artist does not concern my family. My wife and children are my first fans. At home, I have special places to write, there are anyway instruments everywhere. "

Because he does not care about formats

On Bottle It In , some songs slam in three minutes, others stretch over ten. There is nothing formatted at Kurt Vile. Nothing really premeditated either: "I can feel after composing the potential of a song but you can never really know what it will give before recording. Surrounded by the formidable violators, his Crazy Horse, Kurt Vile can let his guitar wander without losing his way. "When we played some songs in the studio - Bassackwards , Bottle It In , Skinny Minni - we let ourselves be carried. I told myself that I would cut them then and, while listening again, I realized that it was not necessary. And it's true that these long-running songs, a kind of sound road-movie, give the album even more speed.

Because Trump is not his cup of tea ...

It is not a surprise. Kurt Vile has little taste for the current state of his country. "Trump is someone so negative, it's a nightmare. I hope that the next elections will allow these psychopaths to be out of business ... "

What make it a little less cool. Especially when we talk about the environment: "Trump and his greedy allies deny global warming while our environment is deteriorating at high speed. My wife is very committed to ecology, I would like to do more. With his album, he will certainly not prevent the ice floes from melting. But it offers a breath of fresh air, a sip of learned guitars and, most importantly, an opportunity to see life on the cool side.

Bottle It In , Matador / Beggars. 13 titles, 76 min. In concert on Sunday, October 21 in Lyon, October 28 in Bordeaux, October 29 in Paris.