It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared)

It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared)
EP by Kurt Vile and the Violators
Released November 13, 2013
Genre Indie rock
Length 29:33
Language English
Label Matador Records
Producer Kurt Vile & the Violators, Rob Laakso & John Agnello
Kurt Vile and the Violators chronology
Wakin on a Pretty Daze
(2013)
It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared)
(2013)
b'lieve I'm goin down...
(2015)

It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared) is an EP by American indie rock band Kurt Vile and the Violators, released on November 19, 2013 on Matador Records.[1] The EP is the second to be credited to both Vile and his backing band, and is included on the deluxe edition of Vile's fifth studio album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze: Deluxe Daze (Post Haze).

Regarding the release, Vile noted: "It's more of like a psychedelic journey that's a companion piece to the style of [Wakin on a Pretty Daze], than an EP that just stands on its own."[2]

Background and recording

It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared) was mostly recorded during the same sessions as Kurt Vile's fifth studio album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, and includes variations on the tracks, "Never Run Away", "Snowflakes Are Dancing" and "Air Bud".

Regarding the track, "Feel My Pain", Vile noted, "[The song is a] stripped-down, ominous folk number, exceptionally meticulous in its finger-picked arrangement, [it] has since become a favorite of mine for all its rawness."[3] He later elaborated: "I always loved ["Feel My Pain"]. And we tried to put that on [Wakin on a Pretty Daze], and we added all these tracks to it, making it more in that epic fashion. But something was lost to me, it seemed like more of a ghostly, stripped-down folk affair. So that was something of substance that I put on [the EP]."[2]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Never Run Away (string synth)"   3:25
2. "NRA Reprise"   1:34
3. "Feel My Pain"   6:20
4. "Snowflakes Extended"   5:42
5. "Wedding Budz"   4:15
6. "The Ghost Of Freddie Roach"   6:23
7. "(reprise reprise)"   `1:54

Personnel

Kurt Vile and the Violators

Additional musicians

Recording personnel

Artwork

References

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