Kurt Vile revels in slackerdom in the song and video for “Pretty Pimpin’,” the lead track off the indie rocker’s upcoming album, B’lieve I’m Goin Down…. “I woke up this morning, didn’t recognize the man in the mirror,” Vile sings against a bed of reverberating electric and acoustic guitar. Eventually, after a string of surrealistic lyrics about mistaking his own identity (“Who’s this stupid clown blocking the bathroom sink, but he was sporting all my clothes?”), he comes to and compliments himself by saying he looks “pretty pimpin’.” The soft-hewn video finds multiple Viles in various states of confusion.
The singer-songwriter will put out B’lieve I’m Goin Down…, his sixth full-length, on September 25th.
