Kurt Vile Debuts “Every Time I Look At You” on The Adam Friedland Show

Kurt Vile is deep in album rollout mode, and his stop on The Adam Friedland Show gives that campaign a slightly looser, more revealing shape. He’s there to promote Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me, due 5/29 via Verve, but the visit also slots him into TAFS Unplugged, where the format tends to matter as much as the chatter around it.

Before he even sits down with Adam Friedland, Vile works through a small set that gestures toward the new record while leaving room for one notable debut. He opens with a solo acoustic take on “Zoom 97,” the album’s first track, then moves into “Every Time I Look At You,” a previously unreleased love song from the LP. It’s the kind of title that practically asks for a lyric worth pausing on, and the opening line lands with the same easy confidence: “Every time I look at you/ Sparks fly from my eyes.”

He closes out the performance portion with “hit of the highlife,” a droning, noisy electric pass through the song from last year’s Classic Love EP with Luke Roberts. It’s a useful reminder that Vile’s current moment isn’t just about the new album cycle; it also connects back to the scruffier side-road material that has helped define his catalog in recent years.

The interview that follows is part of the package too, though the music is the real draw here. For anyone keeping up with Vile, the performances are worth the click on their own.

Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me is out 5/29 on Verve.