Kurt Vile
Smoke Ring For My Halo
LabelMatadorGenreExperimental
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2025 stock ** "Philly’s Kurt Vile can sound like Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp or Lou Reed — if those standard-bearers were murmuring through a speakerphone after a few salvia bongs. On Vile’s fourth LP, the stoner haze lifts a bit, and he settles on a mood: chilled-out but guarded, and wrapped in gorgeous folk-blues guitar-picking. The vibe is warmly psychedelic, but reality is banging at the door. “When it’s looking dark, punch the future in the face,” he slurs in “Runner Ups,” a Dylanesque ramble about making do in a fucked-up world. In the womblike context of these seductive, hand-crafted songs, it seems like excellent advice."
Release notes
Track 11 is a hidden track, and is known as "Shell Blues". Recorded (mostly) in March and May of 2010 at Magic Shop NYC, then at Water Music in Hoboken, then finally at Minor Street in Philly. All by John Agnello except "Jesus Fever" and "In My Time" recorded by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording in Philly. Overdubs on those two by John Agnello at Minor Street as well. Mixed by same John at Headgear in Brooklyn & Biquiteen Studio in Amherst. Some later recordings ensued courtesy of John…
| 1 | Baby's Arms | 3:56 | |
| 2 | Jesus Fever | 3:46 | |
| 3 | Puppet To The Man | 3:52 | |
| 4 | On Tour | 5:26 | |
| 5 | Society Is My Friend | 5:39 | |
| 6 | Runner Ups | 4:00 | |
| 7 | In My Time | 3:47 | |
| 8 | Peeping Tomboy | 4:24 | |
| 9 | Smoke Ring For My Halo | 4:35 | |
| 10 | Ghost Town | 6:23 | |
| 11 | Untitled | 1:01 |
- Ted Young
- Engineer [Assistant At Magic Shop]
- Jonathan Low
- Engineer [Assistant At Minor Street]
- Reynold Jaffe
- Management
- Greg Calbi
- Mastered By
- John Agnello
- Mixed By (5), Mixed By [Overdubs] (2, 7), Producer, Recorded By (1, 3 to 6, 8 to 10), Recorded By [Overdubs] (2, 7), Recorded By [Some Later Recording] (3, 5)
- Matt Boynton
- Mixed By (3)
- Rob Laakso
- Mixed By (3), Performer [Additional Player]
- Adam Granduciel
- Performer, Written-By (3)
- Jesse Trbovich
- Performer
- Kurt Vile
- Performer, Written-By
- Mike Zanghi
- Performer
- Lea Cho
- Performer [Additional Player]
- Mary Lattimore
- Performer [Additional Player]
- Meg Baird
- Performer [Additional Player]
- Michael Johnson
- Performer [Additional Player]
- Mike Polizze
- Performer [Additional Player]
- Shawn Brackbill
- Photography By [Band Photos]
- Michael Ast
- Photography By [Dumpster Photo]
- Kurt Vile & The Violators
- Producer
- Jeff Zeigler
- Recorded By (2, 7)
