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Smoke Ring For My Halo

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PLAY QUEUE 1 Baby’s Arms		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Jesus Fever		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Puppet To The Man		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 On Tour		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Society Is My Friend		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Runner Ups		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 In My Time		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Peeping Tomboy		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 Smoke Ring For My Halo		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 Ghost Town		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 (Shell Blues)		save

MOG Editorial Review

Beginning his third record with a love song, those who were taken with the fuzzed out, lo-fi indie found on Vile's 2009s Childish Prodigy effort may feel some confusion. Truthfully, Kurt Vile has just hit his stride between observational and wry lyricism and experimental recording that dips into classic guitar work, recalling greats like Tom Petty, while also bearing a likeness to the coolly detached output of the Velvet Underground. The Philadelphia native comes across as effortlessly merging his words into often slow-burning, grimy, folk songs. “Society Is My Friend” is one instance that showcases Vile’s methodically laid song progression, and the fingerpicking on “Peeping Tom” is evidence that he’s subtly shedding himself of a “just another buzz band” image, proving that there's life after lo-fi.
AMG Review of Smoke Ring For My Halo

James Christopher Monger
All Music Guide

Philly-based singer/songwriter Kurt Vile lit up the indie rock radar in 2009 with his cynical, lo-fi, classic rock-meets-N.Y.C. proto-punk Matador debut. Fans of the visceral, D.I.Y. fuzz-folk that dominated Childish Prodigy may be taken aback by the production upgrade on Smoke Ring for My Halo, but the cleaner sound doesn’t mean that the floors aren’t still filthy. Channeling everyone from the Dead to Mellow Gold-era Beck to Lou Reed, Vile comes off as malcontent, but there’s an oddball warmth behind his laconic sneer that echoes the late slacker comedian Mitch Hedberg; for every “I wanna write my whole life down/burn it there to the ground” ("On Tour"), there’s an “If it ain’t workin’, take a whiz on the world” ("Runner Ups"). Sweeter and a little more soulful than Prodigy, Halo leans harder on the urban folk side of Vile's disposition (the album opens with a straight-up love song), but tracks like the churning “Puppet to the Man” and “Society Is My Friend” pick up where Prodigy stompers like “Freak Train” and “Overnight Religion” left off. Vile's guitar work remains predictably strong, especially on the fingerpicked “Peeping Tomboy” and the shimmery title cut, but it’s his laconic, serpentine melodies and amiable, burnout wisdom that keep the listener so enthralled. In an age where angst is delivered with the subtlety of a laser light show, it’s nice to hear some good, old-fashioned, smokin’-and-drinkin’-cheap-beers-on-the-porch-with-your-friends-style pessimism. [The two-disc, deluxe edition of Smoke Ring for My Halo adds six bonus cuts to the set, including "The Creature", "It's Alright", "Life's a Beach", "Laughing Stock", "Downbound Train" and "(so outta reach)".