Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
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Artist: Rilo KileyBrand: RILO KILEY
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-21
Music Label: Warner Bros.
Soundtracks:
- Silver Lining
- Close Call
- Moneymaker
- Breakin' Up
- Under the Blacklight
- Dreamworld
- Dejalo
- 15
- Smoke Detector
- Angels Hung Around
- Give a Little Love
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Free Music Review: This Album Goes Toe To Toe With More Adventurous
Hit: 5 Stars
From the gate this album delivers! The first six songs are all hit material ranging from pop to indie to disco, as are the last four songs. Rilo Kiley keeps getting better with each new release. The songs are all well written and Blake Sennett's turn at vocal on Dreamworld is on the money and very reminiscent of Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac. Jenny Lewis' songwriting and vocals are, as usual, Hall of Fame material. The song '15' is another Jenny Lewis burner reminiscent of Dusty Springfield. The opening track 'Silver Lining' is a top 10 hit hit if ever there was one. Every song on this album is well worth listening to repeatedly, the only exception being the song 'Dejalo'. I just couldn't get into this song. Bottom line, this is a classic Rilo Kiley album. I can't wait to hear what they come up with next. After reading some of the reviews I was hesitant to purchase this CD but I eventually made the leap. I'm so glad I did. I would have missed out in a big way. Buy this! You won't be sorry you did.
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Rilo Kiley's most recent album, 2004's More Adventurous, prompted Elvis Costello to praise the best lyric writing that I've heard in many a day, Coldplay to invite the band on its 2005 arena tour and a plethora of critics to vote the disc onto annual best of lists. That album sold 175,000 while Jenny Lewis' solo record, 2006's Rabbit Fur Coat, sold 100,000. Now the gloriously decadent Under The Blacklight, the group's fourth album but first for Warner Bros., focuses even more intensely on what one critic has called lead singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis' tangle of indie pop, torch song and too-cool-for-school cynicism. With Under The Blacklight, Rilo Kiley is ready to shine.Since her band's last record (2004's More Adventurous), Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis has taken her one-time child-actress, pop-star status up a level, as her charismatic solo effort, Rabbit Fur Coat, was one of the top recordings of 2006. But those who feared she'd abandon her long-time mates to do it alone will be instantly comforted by a collection of songs so zestful and extravagantly produced that no less than four emerge tailor-made for pop radio. After the opener "Silver Lining" feeds off George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" riff and some cajoling handclaps, Lewis reels in the glee with "Close Call," where the lavishness of the melodies outweighs the foreboding lyrics. The bouncy "Breaking Up," with the sun-splashed chorus "feels good to be free," is so absolutely California-beach perfect, it's ripe for a million-selling soda commercial, and then Lewis saves her vocal best for a trifecta near the end: Dusty Springfield soul ("15"), dancefloor power pop ("Smoke Detector"), and meltaway folk ("The Angels Hung Around"). Did it take their angel leaving the nest for a spell for Rilo Kiley to make their definitive record? The argument is futile, but the music is sublime. --Scott Holter
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