Take Offs And Landings

Rilo Kiley

Take Offs And Landings
Having been recently reissued (and immediately sold-out) as a limited-edition 20th anniversary color variant, were happy to have Rilo Kileys debut full-length Take Offs and Landings back in print on 2xLP in standard-weight black vinyl. At the beginning of the 2000s, Rilo Kiley was a fiercely independent band, having released an EP under their own Rilo Records label. But, even with only very minimal touring outside of southern California, their brilliant live show and excellent songcraft started to attract a fair amount of national attention in publications like Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone, and even some airplay on MTV. The band initially self-released Take Offs and Landings before signing to Barsuk, who promptly reissued the album. Rilo Kiley quickly joined the ranks of labelmates Death Cab for Cutie and other acts such as Bright Eyes, The Shins, and The Decemberists as early 00s indie rock exploded into the mainstream. While the band stopped releasing albums after 2007s Under the Blacklight, their popularity has continued to grow in the subsequent years. In celebration of the 20th anniversary, Stereogum recently posted a lengthy feature on Take Offs and Landings influence over the current landscape of indie rock, quoting Waxahatchees Katie Crutchfield and noting "The way millennials have reminisced about Rilo Kileys personal impact often mirrors the language Generation X has used to describe the riot grrrl movement only a decade before. If Kathleen Hannas goal was to tell women in her crowds that their anger was justified, [the bands primary songwriter and singer Jenny] Lewis represented the opposing side of the same coin via Rilo Kiley: Its OK to be unabashedly and emphatically sad."
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 2 disk
Release
10-03-2023
Label
Item-nr
1302214
EAN
0655173991916
Availability
Not in stock

Tracks

Title
Artist
1
GO AHEAD
2
SCIENCE VS. ROMANCE
3
WIRES AND WAVES
4
PICTURES OF SUCCESS
5
AUGUST
6
BULLETPROOF
7
PLANE CRASH IN C
8
VARIATIONS ON A THEME (SCIENCE VS. ROMANCE)
9
SMALL FIGURES IN A VAST EXPANSE
10
DON'T DECONSTRUCT
11
ALWAYS
12
WE'LL NEVER SLEEP (GOD KNOWS WE'LL TRY)
13
REST OF MY LIFE
14
VARIATIONS ON A THEME (PLANE CRASH IN C)
15
UNTITLED