Wakin on a Pretty Daze by Kurt Vile (Record, 2013)

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Kurt Vile

2010s

Record

2013

Lo-Fi

Studio Recording

Wakin on a Pretty Daze

Album

Pop, Alternative, Rock

Integral/Cinram Novum

11

United States

"The album feels light as smoke, with happily strummed melodies that drift past the eight-minute mark.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Even when he's so amiably out-of-focus, Vile's melodies remain vivid, his wander never self-indulgent.", "He’s only gotten more precise and confident as a player, his lush tones achieving an unfussy, ruminative beauty throughout the record’s 11 songs.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "Even a mediation on the uniqueness of snowflakes has stormy, rather than syrupy, feel."

2

With longer songs and more articulate production, the fifth album from this drifty Philly songwriter is his brightest and most complex work to date.