Excerpt from an article about Daze, Nashville Scene
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvi...nt?oid=3458096
by Chris Parker July 11, 2013
Though more than half of Daze's 11 songs pass the six-minute mark, the record generally avoids the noodly autoeroticism of jam bands. Vile's a keen, admittedly obsessive craftsman, adding detail and melody in light, flaky layers that unfold with the unhurried grace of a scenic drive through a national park. One of his big inspirations was Fleetwood Mac's sprawling art-pop masterpiece, Tusk.
"Once I discovered it — must've been 2007 — I just listened to it over and over again, like while bottling beer," Vile tells the Scene. "It's like experimental classic rock. The whole album is like unconventional pop. And that's how I consider [Wakin' on a Pretty Daze]. I don't really consider any of it challenging exactly. It's a long song. Like the first song, [the nine-and-a-half minute] 'Wakin' on a Pretty Day,' that's like a pop song to me."