| Artist |
Kurt Vile |
| Album Title: |
Wakin On A Pretty Daze |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
04/09/2013 |
| Label |
Matador Records |
| Catalog No |
OLE-998-2 |
| Bar Code No |
7 44861 09982 6 |
| Packaging |
Cardboard |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Wakin On A Pretty Day (9:30)
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| 2.
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KV Crimes (3:56)
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| 3.
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Was All Talk (7:41)
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| 4.
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Girl Called Alex (6:19)
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| 5.
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Never Run Away (3:24)
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| 6.
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Pure Pain (5:08)
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| 7.
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Too Hard (8:03)
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| 8.
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Shame Chamber (4:46)
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| 9.
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Snowflakes Are Dancing (3:22)
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| 10.
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Air Bud (6:29)
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| 11.
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Goldtone (10:25)
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| Date Acquired |
10/26/2013 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
12.70 |
Web Links |
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Notes |
Artwork [Mural] – Steve Powers (6)
Engineer – John Agnello (tracks: 1, 3-9, 11), Rob Laakso (tracks: 2, 10)
Engineer [Additional] – Ted Young
Engineer [Assistantance] – Bryce Gonzales, Jonathan Low, Ted Young
Layout – Nick Kulp
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mastered By [Assistantance] – Steve Fallone
Mixed By – John Agnello (tracks: 1-7, 9-11), Matt Boynton (tracks: 8), Ted Young (tracks: 10)
Photography [Band, Additional Psychelic Images] – Shawn Brackbill
Photography [Cover, Additional Wall Photos] – Adam Wallacavage
Photography [Recording Studio] – Mandy Lamb
Producer – John Agnello, Kurt Vile & The Violators
Production Manager – Reynold Jaffe
Written-By – Kurt Vile
Recorded At – Dreamland Recording Studios
Recorded At – Five Star Studios
Recorded At – Miner Street Recordings
Recorded At – The Magic Shop
Recorded At – Fluxivity Recording
Recorded At – Vacation Island
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Packaged in a gatefold cardboard sleeve plus a separate, printed inner sleeve for the CD. Includes a booklet with credits and lyrics.
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Analyzed: Kurt Vile / Wakin on a Pretty Daze
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -0.31 dB -8.15 dB 9:31 01-Wakin on a Pretty Day
DR7 -0.29 dB -8.84 dB 3:56 02-KV Crimes
DR7 -0.31 dB -7.85 dB 7:42 03-Was All Talk
DR8 -0.31 dB -9.67 dB 6:19 04-Girl Called Alex
DR7 -0.06 dB -8.11 dB 3:25 05-Never Run Away
DR7 -0.05 dB -8.06 dB 5:08 06-Pure Pain
DR8 0.00 dB -9.57 dB 8:04 07-Too Hard
DR7 0.00 dB -8.46 dB 4:47 08-Shame Chamber
DR7 -0.30 dB -7.80 dB 3:22 09-Snowflakes Are Dancing
DR7 -0.16 dB -8.03 dB 6:30 10-Air Bud
DR7 -0.33 dB -8.33 dB 10:26 11-Goldtone
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 956 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Fred Thomas
Philadelphia songsmith Kurt Vile's 2011 album Smoke Ring for My Halo was a definitive shift for the artist away from home-recorded overexposed fuzz pop toward a more sprawling, textural, and most markedly introspective style. The follow-up, fifth album Wakin on a Pretty Daze, continues in this direction, but pushes the changes begun on Halo with even more articulate production, extended exploration in lengthy songs, and even deeper looks inward, if all approached through Vile's one-of-a-kind fog. Beginning with the nine-plus-minute "Wakin on a Pretty Day," the album immediately takes the mantle from its predecessor, offering up wistful interplay between acoustic and electric guitar tones, Vile's dour mumbled vocals, and an overall emotional sense caught somewhere between the hope and promise of youth and the exhaustion of everyday life. It's this deceptively complex perspective cloaked in seemingly lunkheaded guitar heroics that makes Vile so interesting and helps keep the compositions on Pretty Daze captivating even as many of them stretch past the six-minute mark. "KV Crimes" comes on with a lazy classic rock riff but beneath its stony shuffle and sneery vocals lies a heart of both melody and a palpable sense of diminished excitement being reborn. Longer tracks like "Girl Called Alex" and "Goldtone" capture the dark wistfulness of Where You Been-era Dinosaur Jr. or the dreamy driftiness of Neil Young at his most guitar-centric peaks. Much like his former/sometimes band the War on Drugs, there's an undercurrent of working-class rock à la Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen here (Vile even drops the lyric "Springsteen... pristine" in one song). However, with the spaced-out vaporous jams of Wakin on a Pretty Daze, it becomes clear that Kurt Vile isn't aiming to ape or even update the canon of classic guitar-based songwriters, but is very much his generation's chapter of the evolution of rock. Easily his most focused and accessible work, Pretty Daze is the strongest so far in a chain of releases that seem to suggest there are even greater heights to be reached.
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