| Vile, Kurt / Smoke Ring For My Halo |
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| Album: | Smoke Ring For My Halo | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Vile, Kurt | Added: | Mar 2011 | |
| Label: | Matador Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-04-24 | Pull Date: | 2011-06-26 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 26 | Jun 19 | Jun 5 | May 29 | May 22 | May 15 | May 8 | May 1 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 20, 2022: | down in the basement Jesus Fever | 4. | Jan 13, 2022: | Reckless Burning (rebroadcast from Feb 18, 2017) Smoke Ring For My Halo / Ghost Town | |
| 2. | Jul 14, 2022: | Down in the Basement Peeping Tomboy | 5. | Jun 26, 2021: | Wee Animalcules (rebroadcast from Jun 3, 2011) Puppet To The Man | |
| 3. | Apr 04, 2022: | Wee Animalcules (rebroadcast from Jun 3, 2011) Puppet To The Man | 6. | Feb 18, 2017: | Reckless Burning Smoke Ring For My Halo / Ghost Town |
| Album Review |
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| Andy S Reviewed 2011-05-08 | ||
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Cool mellow mopeyness over lush sorta-psychadelic acoustic-guitar-centric compositions. The vocals have a folky sad-sack gruffness and the lyrics a slacker-indie lazy profundity. It has a singer-songwriter intimacy, but it's so much fuller than that. Really great, engulfing songs. All tracks good but watch FCC on 7. —Andy *1 - (3:56) rainforest density to the backing; pleasant love tune **2 - (3:46) quiet start; upbeat sunny driven tune with bright jangle-pop guitar line **3 - (3:52) 70's psych rock base with electrics and boomy percussion 4 - (5:26) nice lyrics; pretty, unobtrusive backing arrangement gets bigger in last ~1:30 5 - somewhat mystic/synthy dramatic glamness 6 - (4:01) expansive outdoorsy sound with a folky rebel-drawl *7 FCC "shit" - cleaner guitar and dynamic songwriting 8 - cheery, almost bouncy guitar part contrasts the self-loathing vocals 9 - paced, bright and almost hopeful **10 - plodding but fairly upbeat, big feel, some hooks in the vocal line, anthemic instrumental departure for a long stretch towards end then down to bare voice and guitar 11 - lo-fi full-bodied guitar sample | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Baby's Arms | 6. | Runner Ups | |||
| 2. | Jesus Fever | 7. | In My Time | |||
| 3. | Puppet To The Man | 8. | Peeping Tomboy | |||
| 4. | On Tour | 9. | Smoke Ring For My Halo | |||
| 5. | Society Is My Friend | 10. | Ghost Town |