KURT VILE - Smoke Ring For My Halo LP Americana no resurrection without destruction

no resurrection without destruction

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

Natalie Chami’s project TALsounds documents solo sessions of improvised synthesis and live-looped vocal performances

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

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KURT VILE - Smoke Ring For My Halo LP Americana no resurrection without destructionPhiladelphia 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