never too early to anticipate a new Kurt Vile record - Wakin On A Pretty Daze? (2013)

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Smoke Ring didnt have that breezy electric guitar.
great tune.

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link

awesome guitar solo at the end

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link

Between this, Mac DeMarco, Real Estate, and Cass McCombs, I think I've found my favorite "current" sound.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link

highly anticipating this

dmr, Monday, 11 February 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link

Mac DeMarco sounds a little like Vile early stuff

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah all of those I've listed to me are very close in sound in one way or another. I'm seeking more of that sound as well.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link

ariel pink?

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link

I guess so, I wasn't sold with Haunted Graffiti but liked a track or two I heard here and there from the last record.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link

My impression is that Ariel Pink isn't as measured as the others, that's part of what I like about all of them.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link

cleaners from venus is good if you haven't heard 'em, early 80s brit diy stuff along these lines.

Spectrum, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link

Have you heard Woods?

Trip Maker, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link

have you heard Pavement?

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link

Have you heard The Fall?

Z S, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link

Have you heard Mozart?

administrator galina (Matt P), Monday, 11 February 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

administrator galina (Matt P), Monday, 11 February 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link

Larry Mozart yes, not W.A. Mozart though

Z S, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link

Have you heard music?

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link

Thanks! Love Cleaners From Venus, kind of like Woods (they're from my home town area apparently- kind of a fun fact), love Pavement though they generally exude more hip angst than the cited bands in my opinion, love the Fall.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link

Mozart is too angst-y as well...

haven't listened to music in forever, should revisit.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link

Clientele is like the UK version of all this imo, too.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link

The potentially double album was written on the road, reunites the band with longtime Dinosaur Jr. producer and Smoke Ring tracker John Agnello, and features guests like Farmer Dave Scher of Beachwood Sparks, Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa, Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, and Woods frontman Jeremy Earl. In a interview with Spin, Vile called the album “our [Fleetwood Mac's] Tusk, but no cheese. Just rock.”

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link

Between this, Mac DeMarco, Real Estate, and Cass McCombs, I think I've found my favorite "current" sound.

yeah, i think the DeMarco album is the best of the lot

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Monday, 11 February 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link

i just listened to the mac demarco album (2), and it has it's moments, but i'm not sure i'm going to be able to overcome my hatred of a few guitar strumming styles that he relies on too often. i have no idea how to explain in words what i mean, but i'm talking about the strumming style used at the very beginning of "Cooking up Something good", and also the strum where you mute the 2's and 4's, like at the beginning of ""Still Together". i have too many painful memories of being stuck in a room with a guy who played nothing but that style while staring intensely at me and repeatedly asking for feedback. i'll keep listening, though!

Z S, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link

i shudder to say it, but i realized what it is: it's the dave matthews band guitar strum. i have trouble getting past it.

Z S, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah that is truly a very jam-band guitar style, though I think it is offset by the style of everything else around it in this case.

Evan, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link

really don't get this guy (kurt v)

flopson, Monday, 11 February 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

he doesn't get you either

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

i've heard his solo live show is better but i saw him with the violators and it just dragged like nothing i've ever seen

flopson, Monday, 11 February 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

never saw him live, but from what ive seen on youtube - it seems a bore

nostormo, Monday, 11 February 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link

i saw him live a couple of times a few years ago and hated him every time, but the records are great, especially the last one.

mizzell, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link

Live was alright, but I didn't really get into him fully until afterwards.

Evan, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link

this rules very hard

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 February 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2013/03/04/kurt-vile

^live in-studio radio performance (solo)

in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

new song ,Never Run Away, cool clip with his daughter:

http://pitchfork.com/news/50051-listenwatch-kurt-vile-debuts-new-single-never-run-away-in-commercial-featuring-his-daughter/

nostormo, Thursday, 21 March 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link

song is nice, i guess.not as good as the first one.

i like how he quietly plays air guitar with his fingers on that clip.

nostormo, Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

What's the first one, again? This is the first thing I've heard from the new release.

( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd0K76H7sU8

nostormo, Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link

it seems the new record is going to sound like Smoke Ring, but with a more "professional" production (by John Agnello)

fine by me!

nostormo, Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link

first review of the new record (4.5 stars out of 5):

http://aestheticmagazinetoronto.com/2013/03/30/album-review-kurt-vile-wakin-on-a-pretty-daze/

nostormo, Sunday, 31 March 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link

i'm excited to hear this

teledyldonix, Sunday, 31 March 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link

whole album stream!
sounds AWESOME!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/apr/01/kurt-vile-pretty-daze-album-stream

nostormo, Monday, 1 April 2013 12:25 (eleven years ago) link

the production is rich and full of small details, as oppose to smoke ring which was more stripped down.
maybe he was jealous of War On Drugs?

anyway, sounds like the sort of an album it's hard not to love.
Vile for the Masses, in a good way.

nostormo, Monday, 1 April 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link

streaming on npr too, this sounds gorgeous

ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 April 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link

Is it wrong of me to suggest that this record sounds a LOT like Frank Black and the Catholics as a jam band? (I personally don't think that's a bad thing, by the way.)

@GracieLoPan #fyi (Display Name (this cannot be changed):), Monday, 1 April 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link

this sounds very nice

ciderpress, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link

I love when albums release in accordance with the beginning of an appropriate season.

Evan, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link

Excited to jam this at home, something tells me I didn't get the full effect on my work laptop speakers.

global tetrahedron, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link

"Is it wrong of me to suggest that this record sounds a LOT like Frank Black and the Catholics as a jam band?"

yes.

nostormo, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link

it is also a much more optimistic record than SRFMH, a disadvantage in a way.

nostormo, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link

what a great sounding record so far, even on shitty stream quality

ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 April 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link

crestfallen aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnd

j., Saturday, 27 April 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link

damn, this is good:

http://www.spin.com/reviews/kurt-vile-wakin-on-a-pretty-daze-matador/

j., Saturday, 27 April 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link

"Wakin on a Pretty Day" sound a lot like "Major Leagues"

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link

I'd never previously listened to Kurt Vile, but Wakin' on a Pretty Daze is my favorite album of 2013 so far.

jaymc, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link

better than mbv? no way. compared to that it's a little bit of a bore i'd say.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link

I'd never previously listened to Kurt Vile, but Wakin' on a Pretty Daze is my favorite album of 2013 so far.

Same here, loving this album, went out and bought the vinyl after two listens.

Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link

Got this on vinyl the other day. Absolute perfection. Less of a...'vibe' to it than Smoke Ring had/has, but the songs are incredible. I could listen to Goldtone all day.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link

new video for 'never run away' with a slightly different mix! http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/05/01/180361194/kurt-viles-hazy-philadelphia-adventure?sc=tw&cc=share

diamonddave85, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link

lol why didn't i notice one of these songs was called "Air Bud", classic flick

jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 May 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link

air bud owns (in both incarnations)

ciderpress, Friday, 3 May 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link

yeah i'm kinda hungover and bummed out and this record is really great right now, it's better when you're kinda zone out

jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 May 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link

It's us a nice day for this in New York

calstars, Friday, 3 May 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link

I like to think a part of this records success is due to Stella

calstars, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link

this is a great record, it has a positive vibe, something few records seem to have over-all.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link

I just listened to this on an airplane, good traveling music, zen & poignant

jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 11 May 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link

this album is so awesome. he brings the golden tones

reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:00 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Video for "KV Crimes" is out, and I like it a lot.

http://youtu.be/uGTwH8eCn5o

Maria Tesla Pizzeria, Friday, 7 June 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link

Just realized his initials are 'KV'

More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 12:37 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

str8 up, is that Ned Ragget's photo on side D of the vinyl set?

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 23 August 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i love this record so much

lucille baller (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 September 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link

i've come around on this one, had to be in the right mood to get it i guess

Spectrum, Thursday, 19 September 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

for reasons beyond my control i have to see this dude play tonight. i like his records just fine but i am not expecting much from the show. anyone caught this tour?

also something called "beach fossils" is opening which sounds pretty terrible

adam, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link

This album sounded great in the spring, a little less so when I listened to it again recently, but still one of my favorites of the year.

Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link

"a little less so when I listened to it again recently"

otm

nostormo, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link

he's great live.

Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link

The last time I played this record in whole was sitting on my dad's pontoon boat at his lakehouse over the summer and it was pretty much A+ perfect and I'm afraid to spoil the magic by playing it again.

JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link

the first half is way better than the second

nostormo, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link

wrong

sleeve, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link

I could listen to Goldtone all day.

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, April 30, 2013

sleeve, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link

Might be seeing him tonight as well but not super fussed. Someone get me excited. Favourite song of his is that remix of Runner Ups. :/

Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link

just crank the first track on this album, if that doesn't get you jammin g out then probably not gonna happen

ciderpress, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link

ennui is a motherfucker right guys?

Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link

it's not so bad but it can get to you

j., Wednesday, 6 November 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link

man

j., Wednesday, 6 November 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link

I like him live but the best part is often the acoustic solo bit to start the encore imo. not that the band is bad but he's great by himself.

dmr, Thursday, 7 November 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link

http://store.matadorrecords.com/wakin-on-a-pretty-daze-deluxe-daze-post-haze

deeluxe versh comes w/ EP

BONUS DISC
1. Never Run Away (string synth)
2. NRA Reprise
3. Feel My Pain
4. Snowflakes Extended
5. Wedding Budz
6. The Ghost Of Freddie Roach
7. (reprise reprise)

out next week

j., Saturday, 16 November 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link

...cue chorus of outrage from the folks who bought it the first time around, or on vinyl.

sleeve, Saturday, 16 November 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link

outraged kurt vile fans

j., Saturday, 16 November 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link

bogue

CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Saturday, 16 November 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link

looks like that bonus disc is available separately, it is credited to Kurt Vile & The Violators.

sleeve, Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link

yeah it's on spotify...one real keeper is the ghost of freddie roach, good tune

some longer/alt version of album tracks...the last song is a cool little instrumental snippet but it's only about 1:30 long...

no one that bought the vinyl is really missing out that much imo

lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link

five months pass...

Kuer Vile + The Violators Live:
are they boring as the youtube live clips suggests?

nostormo, Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link

pretty much

Number None, Friday, 16 May 2014 09:19 (nine years ago) link

bummer..

nostormo, Friday, 16 May 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link


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