Kurt Vile and his band The Violators have announced UK tour dates for the end of the year, following triumphant sets at Field Day and Primavera festivals in May. Currently on tour in Europe, the forthcoming dates are the only scheduled UK appearances for 2013, these follow the acclaimed new album Wakin On A Pretty Daze […]
Smoke Ring For My Halo was my favourite album of 2011, and though, in retrospect it’s now eclipsed by M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming and Slave Ambient by former bandmates the excellently named The War on Drugs, it remains an album I return to from time to time with real relish. What I like most […]
– SOUND CONTROL, MANCHESTER – Kurt Vile and the Violators: it’s a great name isn’t it? On hearing it I was convinced that latest album, Smoke Ring For My Halo, was the work of some fuck-witted thrash metaler, but its dreamy acoustic psychedelia and Leonard Cohen-esque enunciation quickly insinuated itself into my best of 2011 […]
It’s quite hard, when listening to Kurt Vile, to reconcile the sound of the music with the name of its creator (though, it could very well be his real name…(but, probably not…(but then, it might be…))). You’d probably be expecting something quite raucous. However, not finding that, you probably won’t be too disappointed either. Even […]
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