Rilo Kiley - The New Fleetwood Mac?

[GarboSpeaks!]

ooh girl. rabbit fur coat is a lovely country album that jenny released last year. personally i think the lyrics are a bit weak in spots but the harmonies with the watson twins are killerrrrr. if you want to get to know the RK catalogue, i say just work your way backwards. their previous release, more adventurous (2004) is pretty much flawless ... it manages to cover a wide range of sounds and styles without sounding schizo. definitely my favorite album of theirs.

Hmm, thought I had posted my view of MA for you, cause I'm intrigued to hear what people's favs are. I like it, but don't love it. What stands out for me is Love & War. I like that song. But then one that Sennett sings alone. Ripchord I think. Shoot me in the head. But I'm trying to find good. Tomorrow I'll get a chance to listen to T'off's & L's. There is one more though right? 4 releases as RK?

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by GarboSpeaks!

Hmm, thought I had posted my view of MA for you, cause I'm intrigued to hear what people's favs are. I like it, but don't love it. What stands out for me is Love & War. I like that song. But then one that Sennett sings alone. Ripchord I think. Shoot me in the head. But I'm trying to find good. Tomorrow I'll get a chance to listen to T'off's & L's. There is one more though right? 4 releases as RK?

i hated - hated - ripchord until i saw him do it live on ACL. then i kinda fell in love. i just love MA, though - especially "i never," "me a man then jim," and the title track. and, like, all the others and yes, there's one more - the execution of all things. i like that one more than TOAL, but i'm curious what you think of TOAL

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by carrie721

"me a man then jim,"

one of the best songs ever.

[carrie721]

^you ain't lyin', friend.

[Livia]

Rilo Kiley: All About Jenny
posted by JimAbbott on Oct 3, 2007 2:02:13 AM

Rilo Kiley isn't the new Fleetwood Mac, as Spin magazine suggested on a recent cover, but the poppy songs on the new Under the Blacklight indicate the band is ready for such mainstream comparisons.

In concert before an attentive audience on Tuesday at House of Blues, lead singer Jenny Lewis and her musical partner/ex-romantic foil Blake Sennett mixed a good deal of the new material with older favorites in a 90-minute set.

Lewis, with her long legs and long red bangs, was the focus of the crowd's devotion, with good reason. She delivers a song with almost theatrical style, whether playing guitar, keyboards or prowling the stage as she did in "With Arms Outstretched."

That song, introduced only by Sennett's acoustic guitar, marked her return to the stage after Sennett's solitary, ukulele-powered "Ripchord."

His "unplugged" interlude was a nice contrast to the band, but it also lacked the electricity that radiated when Lewis was onstage. Even Sennett's muddled lead singing in "Dreamworld," the most Fleetwood Mac-ian of the Blacklight songs, was oddly ineffective.

Some of the new songs paled against the urgency of older material such as the opening "It's a Hit" and the exuberant "Portions for Foxes."

By comparison, Blacklight's "Breakin' Up" is overly cute and "The Moneymaker" needed all the strobes that the band used to bolster the beat.

More subtle and expressive was the 30-minute opening set by Art in Manila. Fronted by the ethereal Orenda Fink, the band put out a textured, lovely sound that rocked gently on songs such as "Anything You Love" and "Set the Woods on Fire," the title track of the band's new album.

"Can you hear me through my hair?" Fink asked the crowd, alluding to the bangs that covered half her face. Art in Manila was followed by the three-piece Grand Ole Party, which banged away harder, but less inventively, for 30 minutes of its own.

At its best, Rilo Kiley flexed its own muscles on songs such as the More Adventurous track "A Man/Me/Then Jim" to wring emotion out of intricate narratives.

That doesn't make it the next Fleetwood Mac, but a band with the potential to be something more original.


http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/ent...iley-all-.html

[Serrart]

I quite like Rilo Kiley. They're a bit "light" but interesting. I agree though that any comparison with FM doesn't make sense.

Romy

[David]

Originally Posted by Serrart

I quite like Rilo Kiley. They're a bit "light" but interesting. I agree though that any comparison with FM doesn't make sense.

Romy

"Dreamworld," which I just heard, is obviously an attempt to emulate the "Dreams" chord progression & ambience. But other than that, it doesn't have any more Fleetwood Mac style than that French & Saunders parody -- "Dream Woman"? -- did.