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10.0
53329
10.0 |
God Is In The TV
Full of space yet filled with constant reverberations, KV’s style is unique and within this album, he shows more skilled song-writing capabilities from his previous releases
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9.0
53236
9.0 |
Spin
In his domestic, post-puritanical world, ambition is a good quality, but best served when you don't make a show of it
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9.0
53246
9.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Vile makes no effort to find any shortcut in these overgrown pastures; instead, he revels in the gluttony of time, and so do we
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9.0
53431
9.0 |
The AU Review
The only point that could be made in the negative is that there isn't a stand-out or obvious hit here, but Vile doesn't seem to be the sort of musician to be bothered by such trivialities. This is an excellent album
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9.0
53039
9.0 |
musicOMH
The 11 songs collected here are all among the very best of his career, enlivened with a vividness and warmth that offers something new with every repeated listen
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9.0
53043
9.0 |
Uncut
Kurt and his band the Violators have painstakingly created a warm and epic soundworld
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8.7
53323
8.7 |
Beats Per Minute
He’s as wryly expressive as ever but he seems less content to be pigeonholed as your friendly neighborhood shaggy-stoner-slacker figure
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8.5
53274
8.5 |
The 405
For all its accessibility it remains a remarkably restrained work
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8.5
53240
8.5 |
Paste Magazine
2008’s Constant Hitmaker and 2009’s Childish Prodigy, were more a collage of loose ideas organized around a singular, murky sound, Daze presents 11 carefully composed tracks with beginnings, middles and ends
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8.5
53231
8.5 |
Pitchfork
The music, and the act of loving it, are exercises in patience
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8.2
53499
8.2 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
His music is a vessel of sorts, a book penned from Vile’s subconscious and written for our experiences, so that we can live his music the way he does
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8.0
53617
8.0 |
The Irish Times
This is a rare beast: a rock album that is quietly inventive without its protagonist showboating
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8.0
53826
8.0 |
Blurt
Somehow, Pretty’s spiritual resignation sounds like an invitation
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8.0
54647
8.0 |
Under The Radar
Daze demands time in order to fully appreciate it, promising new discoveries with successive listens
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8.0
53038
8.0 |
The Fly
Despite its length and moments of lyrical self-loathing, Wakin… neither bores nor depresses. Vile lets us gaze into his soul so we can wallow in his easy-drifting, unquantifiably miffed genius
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8.0
53315
8.0 |
State
An album that is woozy and indulgent in all the best possible ways
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8.0
53121
8.0 |
The Observer
His most assured record to date, this is also the Philadelphia rocker's most purely pleasurable
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8.0
53128
8.0 |
Clash
The Philadelphian’s most focused to date
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8.0
53146
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The Philly rocker is well aware of what he's become and what his audience wants from him
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8.0
53176
8.0 |
All Music
Easily his most focused and accessible work
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8.0
53197
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Wakin' on a Pretty Daze is one of those rare examples of an artist’s uninhibited self-indulgence resulting in an LP which plays firmly to their strengths
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8.0
53199
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Vile has grown leaps and bounds from the brief, lo-fi experiments of his earlier material
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8.0
53044
8.0 |
Mojo
Even when he's so amiably out-of-focus Vile's melodies remain vivid, his wanders never self-indulgent. Print edition only
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8.0
53049
8.0 |
NME
Shows Kurt Vile's determination to make something of the genius he got for free
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8.0
53103
8.0 |
Evening Standard
This is slow-motion musical quicksand in which it’s worth drowning
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8.0
53040
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Less instantly rewarding than its predecessor, 2011’s fantastic Smoke Ring For My Halo, but it’s capable of gifting the listener equal if not greater glee providing they allow it the requisite time to settle
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8.0
53041
8.0 |
The Skinny
An irresistible distillation of Vile's poetic and beautifully hypnotic songcraft
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8.0
53042
8.0 |
Q
His songwriting reaches a mesmeric peak. Print edition only
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7.5
53330
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Vile has added another seemingly effortless 70 minutes’ worth of straightforward, easygoing golden tones to his consistent discography
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7.0
53314
7.0 |
The Quietus
At 69 minutes, it's expansive and certainly his most ambitious recording yet
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7.0
53125
7.0 |
DIY
Its meandering ways may endear or annoy in equal measure, but it’s hard to argue that there is a consistency or pure quality to see this album rank alongside its illustrious predecessor
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7.0
53233
7.0 |
PopMatters
The diverse sound here makes for an off-handed, often aggressive record
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6.0
53479
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Vile has let the outside in – even if a basketball-playing dog from an old DVD still proves to be his best inspiration
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4.0
53118
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
It drifts by like a train journey through 11 identically featureless suburbs
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