Wakin On A Pretty Daze

by Kurt Vile

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1.	Wakin On A Pretty Day 09:30	info	buy track
2.	KV Crimes 03:57	info	buy track
3.	Was All Talk 07:41	info	buy track
4.	Girl Called Alex 06:19	info	buy track
5.	Never Run Away 03:24	info	buy track
6.	Pure Pain 05:08	info	buy track
7.	Too Hard 08:03	info	buy track
8.	Shame Chamber 04:46	info	buy track
9.	Snowflakes Are Dancing 03:22	info	buy track
10.	Air Bud 06:29	info	buy track
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In 2023, Kurt Vile is making numbers count. Just last month, Matador Records presented the iconic Philadelphia songwriter with a (vegan) cheesesteak trophy to commemorate the 100-millionth stream of “Pretty Pimpin” on Spotify.

Today, though, we’d like to draw your attention to another significant KV digit: The 10th anniversary of his fifth full-length and first 2xLP, ‘Wakin on a Pretty Daze’ (2013).

To celebrate this milestone, we’ve brought the record back as a blue + yellow vinyl split available via KV and Matador webstores and Bandcamp. This limited pressing will also include a reproduction of the “make your own cover” ESPO sticker sheet that accompanied the original 2013 special-edition. A yellow vinyl version of the record will be made available everywhere.

Where previous albums alternated between gorgeous fingerpicking and heavy guitar workouts, ‘Wakin’ blended the two into dreamy and expansive songs that frequently stretched well out beyond the five-minute mark.

Back then we said: “It’s a record that would have sounded great 30 years ago, sounds great today, and will still sound great 30 years from now.” Ten years down the line, we’re still confident that ‘Wakin’ will deliver the goods – yesterday, today, and in 2043.

The reissue serves as the latest entry in Matador Records’ Revisionist History series, our ongoing campaign to jog the record-buying (and streaming!) public’s memory about our many catalog items now poised to celebrate a significant anniversary. Matador will mark these anniversaries with new reissues and re-pressings. So far, the Revisionist History class of 2023 has highlighted Bettie Serveert’s Palomine, Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted, and Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One.

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released April 8, 2013

2013, Matador Records

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