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Kurt Vile: "Jesus Fever"
First we heard "In My Time," and now we get our second taste of Kurt Vile's forthcoming Smoke Ring For My Halo with "Jesus Fever." Lyrically, the new track is similar to "In My Time," as both songs ponder metaphysics with vernacular turns of phrase and explore Vile's current disposition from an imagined afterlife perspective.
Musically, "Jesus Fever" is bittersweet, haunting folk-pop that evokes the image of staring out a bus window at the life you're leaving behind. That is, until you realize the song isn't about changes in one's life but the inevitable end of it (The opening lines "I pack my suitcase with myself/But I'm already gone" later morph into "When I'm a ghost, I see no reason to run/When I'm already gone").
Vile does seem to find some reconciliation in analogue immortality ("If it wasn't taped you could escape this song") before disappearing into a tangle of guitar twang that evokes the lonesome majesty of empty pastures in a rearview mirror.
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