Rilo Kiley

Editor's Review:

With ample string and horn arrangements, Rilo Kiley’s More Adventurous carries a grander sound than 2002’s The Execution of All Things, yet still bears the casual charms that made their previous effort so irresistible. Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett are potent and careful songwriters, capable of handling the extra instrumentation and crafting songs at once heartrending and uplifting. Each song is remarkably expressive; the music swells and subsides at the most perfect moments, creating a vivid backdrop on which bittersweet narratives spring to life. Lewis’ vocals, drenched in brutal country honesty, pluck all the right heartstrings in unapologetically sentimental songs like “The Absence of God” and “More Adventurous,” but also lend a coy playfulness to provocative tracks like “It’s a Hit.” Memorable and poignant, More Adventurous plays out more like a conversation with a long-lost friend than a pop album.
– James Barone

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Record Label Brute/Beaute Records Released August 2004

Tracks It’s a Hit Does He Love You? Portions of Foxes Ripchord I Never The Absence of God Accidntel Deth More Adventurous Love and War A Man / Me / Then Jim It Just Is

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