Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
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Artist: Kurt VileEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2011-03-08
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- Baby's Arms
- Jesus Fever
- Puppet To the Man
- On Tour
- Society is My Friend
- Runner Ups
- In My Time
- Peeping Tomboy
- Smoke Ring For My Halo
- Ghost Town
Music reviews of Smoke Ring for My Halo
Music Review: A Proper Companion for Introspection
Rating: 5 Stars
For the sake of brevity, I'll get to the meat of the review immediately: I thoroughly enjoy this album. It's a beautiful, sadly uplifting, original work of art, which examines life, love, and loss from some satisfying and unique perspectives. This isn't music for a party; it is, however, great for chill moments, very personal and intimate, whether for listening solo, or as part of a couple.
Now, the vegetables: While the mega-giant, multinational, homogenizing, bottom-line-only record labels, and the recording industry, as a whole, continue to see revenues decline, and their rosters of hit-making artists shrink, a positive evolution has occurred. To wit: Thousands of artists, who would've been denied a recording deal just a few years ago, now have the opportunity to get their music heard; in many cases, these artists find a niche in which to flourish. I'm delighted that artists whose music would never have seen widespread availability before, now have the resources of hundreds of tiny indie labels. Kurt Vile is one of many beneficiaries of the indie label explosion.
I'd never bought a Kurt Vile album before this one. And, I strongly suspect, Vile and his band would have toiled in virtual anonimity twenty years back, until they each went their separate directions to raise a family and/or work a nine-to-five existence. What a loss for The Universe that would have been. Kurt Vile's voicings, lyrics, and music aren't for everyone, and some will be unable to recognize the lightning-in-a-bottle which is this recording; that's okay with Kurt, I'm sure. And Vile hasn't written his music for consumption by "everybody;" he wrote it as an expression of himself.
But if you're a little introspective-minded, and you can hear with an open mind, maybe you, too, will appreciate what he has to say, and how he says it, identifying and relating components of it to your own life. In my opinion, this is a gem of an album worthy of repeated listenings.
Description of Smoke Ring for My Halo
Philadelphia singer/songwriter Kurt Vile returns with his second proper album (2008's Childish Prodigy was a compendium of sorts). Smoke Ring For My Halo is a gorgeously layered record. Ranging from the tender breezy folk in "Jesus Fever" to the tuff urban guitar riff of "Puppet To The Man," Vile's distinctive Philly-accented vocal ties together a sweeping & evocative project - a true American psychedelic folk album.Alternative Rock CDs
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