“Jesus Fever” by Kurt Vile

"Jesus Fever" is one of the songs on Smoke Ring for My Halo, the fourth album from American indie rocker Kurt Vile, released on Matador in 2011. Vile wrote it alone and he's all over the recording, singing and playing guitar, synthesizer and piano, with Jesse Trbovich on bass and Michael Johnson on drums. John Agnello produced it with Vile and his backing band, the Violators, recorded it with Jeff Zeigler and mixed it, while Jonathan Low and Ted Young assisted on the engineering.

Vile has described the album as a record of the thoughts that creep in late at night when you're alone, less a statement than a wandering mood, and critics bought in: Mojo put it at 12 among the year's best albums, Uncut at 14 and Pitchfork at 16.

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