There is no shortage of unheard Rilo Kiley material out there: Sennett and Lewis reportedly wrote 60 songs together in the late 90s, before they even formed a band or a romantic relationship. When Crutchfield sings: “I don’t care if I’m too young to be unhappy,” you might think of the former child star, who told the world at age 25: “You say I choose sadness/ That it never once has chosen me/ Maybe you’re right.” Exploring old-but-new Rilo Kiley material can feel like connecting vital dots in recent history. But Jenny Lewis can be found in the DNA of many millennial musicians- women in particular- making confessional indie-rock today.
“Rilo Kiley is obviously an indie rock band, but she sings like a real singer, which is how I always tried to sing, too.” Rilo Kiley stopped making music in 2007, and the memory of their heyday has faded to a dull flicker. was a perfect influence then,” Crutchfield said in a recent interview. “I’ve listened to that record so many times. Like the arm of Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, which is inked with the glum charcoal drawing found on the cover of the band’s 2002 album The Execution of All Things. Traces of that intense Rilo Kiley fandom pop up in unexpected places today. I think of Rilo Kiley and Livejournal the way some people think of Tila Tequila and MySpace. Rilo Kiley's frontwoman and former child star Jenny Lewis was, to my memory, a spiritual guide for one subset of the Livejournal community, who'd plaster her lyrics on their entries and profile pages with Belieber-like devotion. Resurrecting those pages would mean unearthing legions of fans of the Los Angeles indie-folk band Rilo Kiley, whose final album was released in 2007.
Try to revisit a deleted past life there and you’ll likely be confronted with a crying goat informing you that the account, and all of its entries, have been capital-P purged. The proto-blog platform Livejournal, for instance, is a ghost town today. There was a time not so long ago when social-media platforms didn’t track their members’ every move and stow the information in a steel lock-box for all of eternity.
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