Play that beat!

Believe me, I adore playing an old school hit like nobody's business, but sometimes there's nothing better than putting on one of your favorite long players, enjoying it for what it is: a tip-top, start to finish "headphone masterpiece". Up first: Rilo Kiley's More Adventurous.



A female fronted indie band in which the lead vocalist actually sings instead of screams, shrieks, or yells to get her point across; songs whose lyrics are rooted in reality/actual experience; orchestral, alt-country, alt-rock, and lovely slow moving arrangements. With More Adventurous, Rilo Kiley step into the limelight and lets the world know that they are ready for their close up. Emotion through storytelling doesn't get more rooted in reality than this, bursting through on the guilt wrenched vocals in the I-am-the-other-woman tale of “Does He Love You?” and yearningly expressed through the titular repetition of “I Never,” a sentiment we hear repeated 27 times on this honky-tonk lite lullaby. But the melancholy high point of the disc is “A Man/Me/Jim,” the sordid tale of lovers beaten, battered, and broken. In the title track, Jenny Lewis sings how with every broken heart we should be more adventurous and how what didn't kill her only made her stronger. And thank Alanis Morissette for that, because heartbreak has never sounded so good.
Key Tracks: A Man/Me/Jim, I Never, Does He Love You?