CHRIS’ PICK OF THE MONTH // Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
Apr 10, 2011, 1:27pm
Bears Eat Beats
Bears Eat Beats
Kurt Vile’s Smoke Ring For My Halo [Matador] plays like a wandering drive under the Sunday morning sun. Vile doesn’t push the listener toward climax; he leads them along in an easy haze. Smoke Ring For My Halo ’s power is less located in song structure than song texture. Vile relishes the journey, not the destination. In doing so, Vile has created an entire album’s worth of calm, yet engaging material. The delicacy of song texture found on Smoke Ring For My Halo isn’t foreign territory for Vile. Yet, [...]
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