★★★★★
Album Review: Kurt Vile and Sore Eros - Jamaica Plain EP
Kurt Vile and the Violators are wrapping up a career year after the success of their great new LP, Wakin on a Pretty Daze , and no career year can be complete without some sober reflection on that career's earlier, uncertain days. With this in mind, Vile is capping off 2013 with two more EPs...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-11-26
★★★★★
Tweet Currently Better Not every item attached to an artist's back catalog is begging to be heard. Case in point, the mundane lullaby of Kurt Vile's Jamaica Plain EP. Though the three tracks comprising the album certainly speak of a different era in Vile's life and guitar-playing, there's nothing more to it than slow moving, ethereal tones set into orbit around synth effects and a modulator...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
It's become part of Kurt Vile's small mythology, insofar as he has one: The few post-high school years he lived in Boston, away from his childhood friends in Philly. This brief purgatory--spent discovering John Fahey, driving a forklift to make ends meet, and wondering where all his friends had gone--was a formative, fertile period, the years in which he discovered and honed his inimitable finger-picking style and zeroed in on the wry, cosmic loneliness that would become his defining sound...
- pitchfork.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
Kurt Vile & Sore Eros' new EP, Jamaica Plain, takes its name from the Boston town in Massachusetts, where it was recorded, referred to in the 19th century as "the Eden of America." Though the EP is basically a sound collage, it is built on solid foundation of analog production that is naturally warm and evocative, hissing its way through the charming three song set...
- www.adequacy.net
2013-10-29
★★★★★
From his first cassette recorded as a teenager with an ear bent on vintage Pavement and (Smog) on through to his current work on mega-indie Matador Records, it has been quite a treat to see Kurt Vile grow up on tape. And his fifth proper album informs us that this Philadelphia boy who once drove a forklift to support his artistry has become a grown-ass man with his most focused and nuanced collection of songs to date...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-05-24
★★★★★
Kurt Vile announced Wakin on a Pretty Daze by mobilizing a team to create a mural on a building in his native Philadelphia--the same mural that appears on the cover of the album along with Vile himself, hands shrugged in his pockets, standing off to the side. It's telling that Vile's album covers--and most of his press photos--don't often make him the focal point of the picture...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-05-18
★★★★★
Slackest man in Philadelphia reformats psych-rock for widescreen viewing... Kurt Vile is a man who routinely elevates idleness to an artform. His songs often seem to reuse different combinations of the same minor chords, while a favourite phrase of his is "I don't care..." He is an associate of and collaborator with Thurston Moore, Jennifer Herrema and J Mascis, very much the holy trinity of 1990s slacker rock. On the cover of his "So Outta Reach" EP of 2011, he is asleep...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-05-03
★★★★★
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BY STEVE WILSON
Kurt Vile's former outfit The War on Drugs was, in part, a modern evocation of Neil Young 's first solo album, and Buffalo Springfield performances like "Expecting to Fly" and "Broken Arrow" - lulling, dream-like, open and enveloping simultaneously. Adam Granduciel, architect of and Vile's chief collaborator in The War on Drugs, contributed to Vile's breakthrough solo release, 2011's Smoke Ring for my Halo...
- blurtonline.com
2013-04-27
★★★★★
Release Date: April 9, 2013 Life would be a lot different-- some might say better-- if it were like the old Price Is Right game "One Away". When faced with an important decision, or any decision, really, because who knows in the moment what decisions are ultimately important, you could call out to the heavens with a figurative "Ladies, do I have at least one number right?" and have some idea whether what you are about to do is going to fuck your whole life up completely or just a little bit...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-04-25
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