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/Reprise/Maverick
Product features:
- RILO KILEY UNDER THE BLACKLIGHT
- Silver Lining
- Close Call
- The Moneymaker
- Breakin' Up
- Under the Blacklight
- Dreamworld
- Dejalo
- 15
- Smoke Detector
- The Angels Hung Around
- Give a Little Love
Free Music Notes for Under the Blacklight
Free Music Review: I'm so glad they "sold out" & got GOOD!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
To think, I might have never previewed this album on their MySpace page if some of their "real fans" hadn't been complaining about how different this album is to their previous stuff. The things they were complaining about sounded like exactly what I like in an album.
1. "Silver Lining"- Starts off with a great drumbeat/handclaps & goes right into a wonderful guitar riff which sounds a lot like "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison - I love the lush backing vocals...I guess it sounds so good to me, because it reminds me of all the great 70's soft rock songs that I grew up with.
2. "Close Call"- More great guitar work on this song- I love all the "clean" 70's/80's sounding guitar on this album, as opposed to that "fuzzy" feedback guitar sound that has defined indie & alternative rock ever since grunge in the early 90's.
3. "The Moneymaker"- Excellent sexy funky rhythm section with more great guitar work over it...but I guess their real fans don't like to dance or be sexy.
4. "Breakin' Up"- Wonderful synth sounds & beautifully clear vocals on the verses go into a DELICIOUS chorus with some AWESOME 70's-style backing vocals...I can't tell if it reminds me of the Bee Gees or ELO or just some other great 70's soft-rock song.
5. "Under the Blacklight"- I love the intro & outro of this song with the great pounding drums & the synths that sound like some 70's prog-rock, but the actual song has that one 90's female singer/songwriter Lillith Fair sound like Sarah McLachlan, Shawn Colvin, Paula Cole, etc. that I'm not really a big fan of...I don't mind it in the context of this great album, but wouldn't like it on its own (except for the excellent beginning & ending).
6. "Dreamworld"- This BEAUTIFUL song with the male vocals by Blake Sennett & great 80's guitar sounds VERY similar to "Trouble", the first solo hit in 1981 by Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac, which happens to be one of my favorite songs...the guitar also sounds similar to Lindsey's work on Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" from 1982.
7. "Dejalo"- Being a fluent native Spanish-speaker, I'm usually bothered by bad Spanish accents, but Jenny sounds very earnest when she sings the 3 Spanish words in the chorus that it doesn't bother me...The music on the beginning & chorus reminds me a little of "You Can't Get What You Want" by Joe Jackson from 1984, but Jenny's fast almost-"rapping" on the verses is so good & funky in this great quirky 80's way with more great backing vocals.
8. "15"- A departure from the sounds on the songs before this one, Jenny's clear country-style vocals sound great over the old-style rhythm & blues sound on this song with a rich, full horn section...great lyrics about a "controversial" topic.
9. "Smoke Detector"- The opening guitar reminds me of the Byrds - if the whole album sounded like this, I probably wouldn't like it, but I love it in the context of this album - love the guitar solo & the clapping during the "breakdown" & the great upbeat catchy chorus with more backing vocals.
10. "The Angels Hung Around"- More of the alt-country folky rock sound that seems to be popular in indie circles..again, I wouldn't necessarily like a whole album of this, but I love this song as part of this album...more great backing vocals on the chorus.
11. "Give a Little Love"- Excellent use of "cheezy" 80's drum-machine & Casio-keyboard sounds (similar to "Running" by No Doubt, but leaning more toward the 80's R&B usage of it).
Overall, this is a perfect album for me because I love albums where every song sounds different.
I first became a fan of music in the early 80's when people would put a lot of "stuff" into their recordings (horn sections, funky basslines, backing vocals, latin percussion, synthesizers, etc.) to give the music more "flavor", rather than just sticking to the basic guitar/bass/drums rock format, so this album is right up my alley that way.
Plus, like all the best 80's albums (when they were on vinyl & it was hard to fit more than 10 songs on a record), this album feels very short & leaves me wanting more, so I'd probably put it on repeat, which is a good thing compared to many modern CD's that are so long (often due to "filler" songs that they should have left off) that you rarely get through the whole thing in 1 sitting.
It's an amazing album full of Fleetwood Mac & assorted 80's influences, which makes it a lot more interesting to listen to than the boring indie alt-country they've done until now. I guess all the whiners can just keep listening to over-rated crap like Cat Power, now that Rilo Kiley "sold out" & got GOOD! (Hopefully this will mean less unshaven, badly-dressed indie "hipsters", with their awful haircuts & ironic t-shirts, at the live shows!)
Under the Blacklight Poster
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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