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Childish Prodigy

Kurt Vile

Childish Prodigy

Solo effort of home-recorded underground rock from the guitarist with Philadelphia indie-rockers The War on Drugs

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6.2

Label
Matador
UK Release date
06/10/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

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  2. 8.0 |   The Fly

    ...a ramshackle collection of tracks so DIY they could have been recorded in a shed
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  3. 7.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  4. 6.3 |   Pitchfork

    One gets the sense that Vile is a prolific songwriter, able to knock out a bunch of tracks in one sitting, and almost all of Childish Prodigy has an on-the-fly nature to it, almost as if he's making the tracks up as he goes along.
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  5. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    Childish Prodigy is, at this point, a mere promising step rather than a Great Album. For all that many of his songs have elements that show great verve and innovation, not that much actually lodges in the brain
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  6. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  7. 4.0 |   musicOMH

    Kurt Vile suggests you buy this fuckin' album. Not that he cares much. But if you don't, he says he's gonna make another one. And you don't want that, do you?
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