Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Wakin on a Pretty Daze is Kurt Vile's most spacious, becalmed record yet, and it contains some of his best-ever brand of cosmic stand-up. The album moves at its own stately pace and with its own serene logic and time.
A colourful, warm and optimistic album, focused on its aesthetic and sprawling in its approach, which will reveal its subtleties over time.
In most photos, he hides his face behind his hair. Long, dark, nappy in the summer months—Kurt Vile’s wavy strands fall…
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Philadelphia songsmith Kurt Vile's 2011 album Smoke Ring for My Halo was a definitive shift for the artist away from home-recorded overexposed fuzz pop toward a more sprawling, textural, and most markedly introspective style.
Album five brings with it a watershed moment in Kurt Vile’s career. Before even pressing play, the vivid colour saturation of the cover and extended track lengths underline a change of tone and pace from 2011's Smoke Ring for My Halo.
This isn't an album for those with short attention spans. Its 11 tracks stretch across two LPs and last for more than an hour, with many of...
On Wakin on a Pretty Daze, the tension between self-consciousness and bliss permeates every aspect of every song.
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Philadelphia rocker Kurt Vile's most assured record too date is also his most enjoyable, writes <strong>Killian Fox</strong>
Wakin on a Pretty Daze suggests the Philly rocker is well aware of what he’s become and what his audience wants from him.
Kurt Vile is now on his fifth album and the songs seem to be flowing with embarrassing ease