KURT VILE - Smoke Ring For My Halo LP Americana The record launches with an

The record launches with an uncanny field recording before being drawn onward by the coalescing alto and tenor saxophones of 'Miracles'

Guitarists Sadie Dupuis and Matt Robidoux bring on additional guitar effects to color the roundabout feel of “Oxygal

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and haunting album bridging folk and medieval styles with a plaintive magick that only appears intensified on record - a huge RIYL Hildegaard von Bingen

9 songs of blistering hardcore

KURT VILE - Smoke Ring For My Halo LP Americana The record launches with anPhiladelphia singer songwriter KURT VILE returns with his second proper album (2008's Childish Prodigy was a compendium of sorts). Smoke Ring For My Halo is a gorgeously layered record. Ranging from the tender breezy folk in "Jesus Fever" to the tuff urban guitar riff of "Puppet To The Man" Vile's distinctive Philly accented vocal ties together a sweeping & evocative project a true American psychedelic folk album. This is no pastoral listening