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Artist News
Rilo Kiley split
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 15 July 2011
Rilo Kiley have split. And not in one of those, “oh, well, we’ve not done anything for a few years, but who knows?” kind of ways. But in a “there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed” kind of way. Basically, they aren’t parting on especially good terms.
Guitarist Blake Sennett told Spinner: “I just felt like there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed and things I don’t really want to submit myself to. I had related that frustration to music but I just thought: ‘I’m not going to put myself in that position again’, so I said: ‘Fuck that, I can’t do this anymore'”.
He continued: “That being said, it was probably immature and that came from a place of ego. I think that stuff will rear its head in anything you do, depending on the personnel you surround yourself with; things change overtime and people change and relationships change. Relationships, like Woody Allen said, are either moving forward or they’re moving backwards, they either degrade or they grow and it was degrading to some certain extent in Rilo Kiley. I was mad at music – and it wasn’t music’s fault. It was our fault as band members, or partners, or friends”.
Of the band’s last album, 2007’s ‘Under The Blacklight’, he said: “I don’t think it was our best record by far. I think that it could have been our best but I think we were under pressure. There were some of our best songs on that record but some of our worst songs. Like, ‘Dejalo’ and ’15’ – I didn’t like those songs. They’re OK, but we have a ton of old tracks that are better than a lot of the stuff that did make the record”.
Still, that album won’t be the closing chapter of Rilo Kiley’s career. Sennett said that the band are hoping to put together a two disc collection featuring around 40 songs, adding: “I think that can be more considered like our last release, to me”.
