jenny lewis - rabbit fur coat

It's taken me ages though, the first few listens found me picking holes in it all over the place, but it's grown and grown and now I think it's completely wonderful, and I want her to do a double-header tour with Richard Hawley...

but apart from that...wow. it's a lovely piece of work.

But as for Rabbit Fur Coat, it's just so very listenable. Never sounds bad, and has stood up well over repeated (and repeated) listenings.

Between this and Neko Case, 2006 is clearly the year of the Red-head Alt Country Girl. Both records are under 40 minutes too.

it's a solo record, what do you want? She sings great, writes good words, and the music doesn't get in the way, or drag it down. The only tracks the band makes any impression at all are the cover and the song following that.

Has the new one leaked? NPR has the title track on All Songs Considered...

2. Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue

(Sept. 23) Unlike the last time out, Jenny Lewis doesn't have the Watson Twins watching her back on her new solo album. But she does have an all-star bunch of pals, including She & Him and Elvis Costello, who helped her record this disc over three weeks in Van Nuys, Calif. The country-tinged gospel of Rabbit Fur Coat can still be heard on a few tracks, but Lewis also takes things in a smouldering, '70s California-rock direction that's worth a listen. - If you want a preview of this all-analog record, you'll have to rely on some (appropriately) old-timey technology for now. Call 1-888-717-2243 for a scratchy answering-machine version of Acid Tongue.

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Saw her on Conan the other night, liked it. Do the songs on the album in generally have a fuller arrangement than her performance on the show? On Conan it was just her and a small group of backing vocalists.

i want pedal steel and piano. "all analogue recording" gives me perhaps unfounded hopes for crisp & warm production values in line with, say, "Wolfking of LA", Jerry Jeff Walker (circa "Bein Free"), or the third Burrito Brothers album.

also i am favorably influence by the LP being titled "acid tongue."
but i really, really don't want it sound like any kind of elephant six shit.

it doesn't. It's not as good/consistent as RFC but it's still pretty good. It's a California comedown album w/ some carole king tapestry stuff going on.

Album is bigger overall that AT is (as a track) but AT is just her w/ a bunch of dudes singling close harmony so it's pretty representative

Acid Tongue is a pretty splendid song to be sure. Anyone heard the album? (besides those upthread obv.)

I loved Rabbit Fur Coat, but the new one isn't nearly in the same league. It's a disappointment, same way that Under The Blacklight was compared to More Adventurous.

I like the new one quite a bit better than RFC.

Who can one trust in this world anymore?

anybody have/heard her 2010 album Jenny and Johnny?

I got it and saw her/them on the accompanying tour. Not bad, but nothing reaches the heights of the best RK work or her two solo records, IMO. Best tracks are probably "Big Wave" and "Animal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwtV7L5bxtk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJQvf1LZofY

Johnathan Rice is kind of a charisma vacuum, is the problem.

yeah, the new yorker cartooon song is pretty ... embarrassing. NPR?

i saw rilo kiley once and jonathan rice opened and when RK came on a wag in the crowd yelled "JONATHAN RICE SUCKS!" and probably a majority laughed, and i felt kind of bad but

Your second and final concert, right?

penultimate.

i picked this up the other day when i heard about the rk breakup. it's funny, i don't even *love the music* or anything (it's fine but nothing about it is really remarkable) but like with rk i just kind of sit back and allow myself to be awed by her talent. she seems like one of those people for whom music isn't very hard.

bought this when it came out & have barely listened since but i should do this too imo

It's such a back-heavy album