Kurt Vile & The Violators [ UTSOLGT]

Nytt album ute: Smoke Ring For My Halo

Cafe Mono er stolte over å kunne presentere Kurt Vile & The Violators (US).

Den amerikanske folk-rockeren Kurt Vile er en meget produktiv artist. Siden sin debut Constant Hitmakers fra 2008 har han gitt ut to EPer og to album.  Mer eller mindre rett fra en turne med Thurston Moore skal han  på turne med bandet sitt The Violators for å promotere det nye albumet  ” Smoke Ring For My Halo” .

Vi har nå gleden av å kunne se han spille  en intim klubb konsert her i Oslo.

“Kurt Vile has a way of tying time in knots. You can hear it on his new album Smoke Ring For My Halo from the get-go – the pinwheeling guitars and reaching atmospheres of ‘Baby’s Arms’ are as strange as they are familiar: a demonstration of how Kurt can put worn methods and sounds through himself and end up with something that isn’t emotionally or sonically obvious. Instead we’re left with a record that contains traces of the past but doesn’t waste precious time in the now being reverent.

Once compared to Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, Psychic TV, and Animal Collective in the same review (for 2009’s Childish Prodigy), Kurt can bring to mind anything from Suicide to Leo Kottke to My Bloody Valentine, Bob Seger, Nick Drake, and Eastern ragas. Still, he pieces together these disparate elements so seamlessly and unpretentiously that such reference points are rendered pointless by the singularity of his sound. Kurt Vile might belong to a long lineage of classic American songwriters, but he’s the only one who’s alive and in his prime today.

The Violators are Mike Zanghi (drums), Adam Granduciel (guitar, mellotron, percussion), Jesse Trbovich (guitars).”

In an interview with Women’s Wear Daily,  Kim was asked, “Your guilty pleasure right now?” Kim replied, “Listening to Kurt Vile’s latest CD, Childish Prodigy. Guilty because I listen to it too much…  – Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)

Den nye plata til  Kurt Vile “Smoke Ring for my Halo” er temmelig fantastisk, anbefale dere å sjekke den ut. – Charlotte  Thorstvedt.

Kurt Vile is amazing – J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr)