Kurt Vile – Philadelphia's Been Good To Me (CD)

Before building a devoted following through the indie and underground rock world, Kurt Vile spent years playing in Philadelphia bands and absorbing the city's working-class grit, which never really left his sound. A founding member of The War on Drugs, he eventually stepped out on his own and became one of his generation's most distinctive voices, blending lo-fi bedroom recording sensibility with sprawling, hypnotic guitar work rooted firmly in that Philly soil.