Kurt Vile- Peeping Tomboy

Apathy is a strange feeling. What do you do with yourself when you want to do nothing, including doing nothing. Kurt Vile takes this problem and inserts it into one of the best songs I've heard this year. The song begins with an acoustic classic rock feel, the fingerpicking style dropped straight from the late 60's and early 70's. When Vile begins to sing however there is no mistaking the modernity of the song as Vile's wonderfully listless voice gives voice to the youthful apathy which clearly resides in the last few decades. Vile's apathy is broken by a tomboy. Vile becomes a peeping tom cleverly turning a phrase to add wry humor to the song. Melding the dull urges of apathy with the sharp desires of love creates an indescribable feeling to the song which gives voice to the youth who want more but cannot remove themselves from the couch to find it. We're all peeping toms.