Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile are teaming up for a new album and tour

The result of eight days in the studio, over a period of almost 15 months, the record will be released later this year by Matador Records, Marathon Artists and Milk! Records.

Kurt continues, “I just love her voice in general… great lyrics of course… I love all her music but the song that really hit me was ‘Depreston’ — I know it’s popular but her voice is so good in that song and it’s so pretty and sincere… I’m a sucker for that kinda song: instant classic. It started out as, maybe we’ll do a split 7″ together but then I figured let’s make it a 12″ so it doesn’t get lost in the world, shoot for five songs. It wasn’t until I had another KV tour booked for the following summer in Oz that we thought we should record as much as we can, just see what happens, no major goal to make it a full length, but it came together that way ’cause the vibe was so strong with everyone.”

They’re heading off on a tour with an all star backing band, going under the name the Sea Lice. They’ll feature Sleater-Kinney’s Janett Weiss, Stella Mozgawa from Warpaint, former Sky Larkin vocalist and occasional live member of all your fave bands Katie Larkin and Rob Laakso of The Violators and The Swirlies.