#rkives

[houseshoesandtallboys]

RKIVE

[juanalikesmusic]

“Patiently” by Rilo Kiley from Rkives (2013)

I listened to Rkives last week for the first time. I’ve been a fan of Rilo Kiley since 2008, but only last week I was ready to listen to the album. They were the first band I truly liked that split up and I guess that seeing all my expectations of new music and of a remotely possible Latin American tour suddenly became frustrations was strange.  I always said to myself that it was obvious that they were going to split up -- it always seemed so since I started listening to them. But the truth is that the break up affected me. 

When Rkives was released in 2013, I felt Rilo Kiley was rather distant from me: what is a band after they split up? Is it worth to even keep listening to them if I knew they couldn’t offer me anything new? A compilation album wasn’t the same to a studio album, and I wasn’t ready to listen to pure nostalgia yet. But maybe I came back to Rilo Kiley because I realized that they still have something to offer me: familiarity. In times when everything is a mess -- when I am a mess --, sometimes you don’t feel like listening to new exciting music. You just need comfort. 

I also came back to Jenny Lewis’ The Voyager -- which I neither listened to a lot when it was released -- and behind her harsh irony, I found a woman lost in a limbo. I suddenly started seeing this same idea in all of Rilo Kiley’s discography and I found it again in Rkives, in characteristic lines like: “A thousand miles from who I want to be, but I'm not dead yet. I'm still breathing. And patiently, I exist”. Now I think that maybe only a compilation album can sound brand new and so familiar at the same time.

[lion-burger]

and my heart is breaking my knees is shaking and i just hanging around the clock is ticking the world is spinning there's nothing that i found. and may all acquaintance be forgot but i remember you

[rus-califi]

The moonlight won’t hide These crying eyes.

[thedailyvinyls]

This is my favorite Rilo Kiley song, and I'm totally feeling it today...

[heyluxco]

happy birthday. you're half way to sixty.

rilo kiley

[cardamomkutti]

and the loves that you had, they didn't please you enough now your face is in your hands, and you wonder if anyone ever will, ever will, ever will

[capturingm0ods]

Here’s to all the luck that pours down on me, Here’s to all the melodies that picked us up off our seats, Here’s to the younger ones when they replace me, Here’s to the bitterness that keeps the sweet so sweet. Here’s to all the words that we’ll never speak, Here’s to all the pretty girls that you’re going to meet, Here’s to the little lies I tell in my sleep, Here’s to the secrets that you’re going to keep.

Draggin' Around