Jesus Fever
Track two of Smoke Ring for My Halo, the first song from it to get a video.
Kurt Vile, from Smoke Ring for My Halo (2011)
We could not verify the writer credit, though it is presumably Vile's. Ricardo Rivera directed the video, produced by Klip Collective and published on April 4, 2011, showing Vile walking snowy streets and abandoned buildings with flickering projections; the Line of Best Fit calls it the first video from the album. Tiny Mix Tapes named it with "In My Time" one of the album's two shrewdest tracks, and it leaked as a single before the album. We found no interview in which Vile explains the song; a concert review reads it as leaving the world that raised you, which is the reviewer's interpretation.
Setlist.fm counts 414 plays, third among his songs behind "Wakin on a Pretty Daze" and "Pretty Pimpin". Our upload is the official video.
Sources
- Kurt Vile, Jesus Fever, The Line of Best Fit (2011-04-04)
- Smoke Ring for My Halo, Wikipedia
- Philly is Vile, and vice versa, NBC10 Philadelphia (2011-04-04)
- Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring for My Halo, Tiny Mix Tapes (2011-03-08)