Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador Revisionist History 10th Anniversary Edition)＜数量限定盤/Yellow Vinyl＞

人気シンガー・ソングライターのカート・ヴァイルによる傑作5thアルバムが発売10周年を記念して数量限定カラー盤にてリイシュー!!

フォーク、カントリー、サイケを血肉に、サーストン・ムーア、ダン・オーバック、ジョン・プラインといった新旧米国音楽の顔たちが賛辞を送る人気シンガー・ソングライター、カート・ヴァイルの傑作5thアルバムが発売10周年を記念してカラー盤再発!!
「静謐でいて、宇宙的な広がりを見せる名盤」として、ピッチフォークでは8.5点のBest New Musicを獲得した本作は、シングル「KV Crimes」、「Never Run Away」を筆頭にレイド・バックしたフォークから、パワフルなロックンロール・ナンバーまで、30年前にも30年後にも通用する普遍的なサウンドを搭載した69分の大作。
〈Matador〉の再発シリーズ"Revisionist History"の一環として、数量限定イエロー・ヴァイナル仕様でリイシューされる。

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 a 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. ~ Fred Thomas