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Kurt Vile’s ninth solo set.

Verve Records, April 15.

On the spectrum of modern psychedelic slacker rock, Kurt Vile sits somewhere between the lackadaisical ennui of Mac DeMarco and the rootsrock sprawl of the War on Drugs, which Vile cofounded. The headspace is stressed in this new set, recorded at Vile’s Mount Airy home studio. Songs like “Fo Sho” and “Flyin (like a fast train)” envelop the artist’s exhaustion with the worries of this decade in chunky synths and inspired guitar work.