The Execution Of All Things, Rilo Kiley
2022-02-08
This one was recommended, as most of my music is, by a friend who said it was the perfect album. I listened to it at work and yeah. I can see where that statement came from. I also listened to it a couple of days ago and only just got around to making this blog, and my memory is quite bad so hopefully it's not too stale in my mind yet to talk about..
The first three songs especially had a kind of cinematic feel that was a little annoying at first. It was beautiful and well-executed, I just have a stupid allergy to sentimentality that was starting to get set off. The Good That Won't Come Out also set that off but I got over myself enough to appreciate it! Yippee! I do keep playing the first three songs over and over again so I have a stronger impression of them than the rest. As a Leonard Cohen FREAK I have to say that the recurring mention of a lost war is kind of what draws me in here lol
At any rate. Once the first little childhood interlude (a piece of the broken-up song And That's How I choose To Remember It) hit I was like. No. This can't be happening. I don't remember literally anything else of the album except for that A Better Son/Daughter was interesting because the language it uses is like 95% "healthy" hope but it's clearly coming from a place that's a little spiteful and pretty desperate, with something of what seems like resentment towards what "better" looks like. Kiley's voice enhances all of this obviously. Anyway after Outro had played through I felt like I needed to go headbutt a wall (standard feeling of listening to music) and took my headphones off and finished what I was doing in silence. Great album!
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P.S. I thought I'd put a little postscript personal notes section in my posts. I may change this, everything about this site is very much under construction. I think when I get around to it I may add images for album covers? We'll see.