Album: Under the Blacklight
Artists: Rilo Kiley
Like/Don't Like: Like, mostly.
Poor Rilo Kiley. I got their newest album the same day I picked up the Allison Krauss/Robert Plant album. Tough break - because that album is MAGIC and I couldn't seem to bring myself to take it out of the player. So Under the Blacklight has been sitting on my stereo, waiting to be listened to for about a month now.
I finally gave it a real shot yesterday and I like it. Mostly. Catchy songs that I can sing along with always score high with me and this album has plenty of them. But it's pretty thin lyrics-wise. One of my biggest pet-peeves in songs is when lyrics are repeated over and over again. Nearly every song on this album suffers from this. I got bored with a lot of the songs because, even with the catchy tunes, I couldn't get past hearing the same phrases repeated a dozen or so times. I don't think this will be a problem for a lot of people, but it was for me.
But aside from that, it had a real quirky and fun vibe that I liked a lot. It won't go down as one of my go-tos but it certainly will be one that now and then I'll be driving along and get tired of the radio and will want something different and will flip through my cds and stumble across it and pop it in and remember that I liked it.
Oh, and one of the added benefits of listening to Rilo Kiley is that you can have Troop Beverly Hills quotes running through your head. Bonus!
1 comment:
Your vast knowledge of music makes me feel completely in the dark! I've never heard of Kilo Riley. Why would I have Troop Beverly Hills in my head while listening? I remember watching that movie (actually, I think we watched it several times as roommates), and don't remember anything. Thanks for letting me know about all these great (or, not so great, as the case may be) albums. I'm with you on repetition. I think the only song I tolerate it on is One Republic's "Apologize", and that's just because it reminds me of So You Think You Can Dance, and it has a cool cello part.
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