| Product Summary | | Label: Warner/reprise/maverick | | UPC: 00093624995654 | | Release Date: 8/21/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205116217 | | Item#: M3R37G | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 49377 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Silver Lining ~ Rilo Kiley |  | | 2. Close Call ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 3. Moneymaker, The ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 4. Breakin' Up ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 5. Under The Blacklight ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 6. Dreamworld ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 7. Dejalo ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 8. 15 ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 9. Smoke Detector ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 10. Angels Hung Around, The ~ Rilo Kiley | | | 11. Give A Little Love ~ Rilo Kiley | |
| | On Under The Blacklight, Jenny Lewis is fiery and unrestrained, no more so than on "The Moneymaker". With the blood of Fleetwood Mac, early Heart, and The Rolling Stones' 1978 dancefloor masterpiece "Miss You" pumping through its veins, Under The Blacklight is a gloriously decadent-sounding album, smooth dance beats balanced by the underlying lyrical motifs of the seedier side of Los Angeles life; the characters in the songs embroiled in everything from drunken one night stands to the sex industry. The album's lyrical theme is of the darker side of life as revealed by a nightclub blacklight, each song's character sharpened to a precise focus by Lewis' unique, undeniable approach. Lewis' penchant for 60's country music is also represented; "15", a twisted love story of misplaced ardor, gives us the unique idea of what Bobbie Gentry might have had to say if internet dating had existed in her time. Elsewhere, Blake Sennett dazzles with the sneaking 70's soul of "Dreamworld", a song so rich with gold dust that it's liable to take you back to the days of high school mix tapes, while "Breakin' Up" is perhaps the perfect encapsulation of what Rilo Kiley is: the song craft of Sennett and the serrated edge of Lewis' lyrics - deceptively catchy and upbeat, the song celebrates leaving a jilted lover in the dust. In many ways Under The Blacklight is a classic Californian love child and Rilo Kiley its ardent and vivacious young parents.
Track Listings
1. Silver Lining
2. Close Call
3. Moneymaker
4. Breakin' Up
5. Under the Blacklight
6. Dreamworld
7. Dejalo
8. 15
9. Smoke Detector
10. Angels Hung Around
11. Give a Little Love
"it's yet more adventurous, a prosperous band's challenge to its comfortable cult" Rolling Stone
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Initial pressings include a bonus CD. | | L.A.'s cuddliest indie-rockers go for the gold on their fourth album and major-label debut. The warm and fuzzy country/folk-inflected sound that made Rilo Kiley an underground sensation is shunted aside in favor of a more radio-friendly approach. This stylistic expansion encompasses everything from lite-funk grooves and soul horns to New Wave synths and crunchy, chugging guitar riffs. The album-closer, "Give a Little Love," sounds like some alternate-reality mash-up of Beyonce and 10,000 Maniacs, with its skittering drum loops and R&B/pop flavor. | | None of this is to say that indie heartthrob Jenny Lewis and cohorts have become either the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Hillary Duff; there are a couple of tracks that still hark back to the Rilo Kiley longtime fans know and love, and even the new directions keep the listener within walking distance of the band's initial aesthetic. Nevertheless, UNDER THE BLACKLIGHT is the sound of a word-of-mouth sensation expanding its reach and its grasp simultaneously and making its bid for household-name status. |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight - CD Review By: Josh Hathaway - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 8/25/2007 2:01 AM | | Under the Blacklight could be a modernized, musical companion to Mark Twain's The Gilded Age. I wonder if the excesses of a generation of glamor girls and their unglamorous behaviors inspired or influenced Lewis' lyrics. Tales of underage sex, promiscuity, and tacit references to pornography describe this album or just another night on the town for Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and a host of other troubled young women.
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/21/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 189372 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624995654 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.66)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's yet more adventurous, a prosperous band's challenge to its comfortable cult..."Rolling Stone (p.108)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "The big, bright pop-rock record these ex-indie-rockers always had in them..." Spin (p.131)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "They're too wily to settle for cheeky synth-pop pastiche....The former child actress heartily gives herself over to a variety of roles..." Entertainment Weekly (p.130)
- "There are inspired moments, like the bouncy cross-country kiss-off 'Breakin' Up' and the soaring brass of the Dusty Springfield-esque '15.'" Uncut (p.78)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "Ms. Lewis has jettisoned the loose and scratchy indie sketches for the warm immediacy of classic black pop music -- Motown and Stax especially -- to get her thoughts across....A quality album chock-full of what we used to call hits." Q (Magazine)
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- Ranked #17 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "[S]ome of their best songs to date..." Rolling Stone 8 of 10
Always too cute for serious indie cred, Jenny Lewis slips four songs about dangerous sex in which she herself might be indulging -- right now, in her pretty prosperity -- into music that's defined rather than just decorated by its stylistic flirtations - Robert Christgau
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