Photo by James Finch.

VICE: There’s a line on your record Asleep Many Years in the Woods: “The future depends on you kicking back.” Is that your motto? Ned: Was it easy to stay out of trouble in Louisville, where you grew up? What about getting high? You’re not going to tell me there wasn’t doobage in Kentucky high schools. The Anomoanon’s Asleep Many Years in the Woods is out now on Temporary Residence, and their Envoi Villon is available on Galaxia. Both are sublime.

What do you think of Erik Lavoie?
Ned: He’s got a Telly Savalas-in-high- school thing going on. If you unloosen your eyes on the image and let it go 2-D, he looks like a cartoon caricature of Bruce Springsteen circa ’78.