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RILO KILEY – I REMEMBER YOU

A beautiful, melancholy Fleetwood Mac-esque indie rock. One of my most favourites of Rilo Kiley's composition.
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I couldn’t find a video of this song, so I just created one, fuck it. Hopefully it can attract people’s attention. Because this song deserves it. Big time.

“I Remember You” is one of my most faves of Rilo Kiley’s composition, a melancholy Fleetwood Mac-esque indie rock—oh, there’s a bit of “Marquee Moon” guitar lick, too!

“I Remember You” is taken from their 2013’s compilation of outtakes, demos, and b-sides album, Rkives.

The dynamic force behind Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis x Blake Sennett, they’re some kind of pioneers in introducing confessional indie-rock for today’s musicians. Check out parts of the lyrics:

At a party last New Years eve somewhere downtown
We started talking about how we wanted someone to kiss after the countdown.
I went to get a smoke and drink at the bar and when I came back you were gone
I didn’t think I’d ever see you again.

Last winter I was working nights and I missed the last train
Nothing unusual, I walk home in the snow again.
A car stops, rolls down the window and asks me my name
I replied, I realize, ‘It was you.’

And may all acquaintance be forgot but I remember you.
And I remember and I remember and I remember you
And I remember and I remember you

At first I thought it was Blake Sennett who sings a duet with Jenny Lewis in this song. It’s not him. The one here, Benji Hughes, he’s quite melodious. While Blake’s voice is kinda flat and (that’s why it sounds like he’s) more in pain. To me, Blake is a genius of sadness, he must be a highly sensitive person, he’s so savvy about melancholia. Maybe that’s why Jenny Lewis fell for him, followed by Winona Ryder several years later. Mad respect, bro.

Help yourself with a glass of Maker’s Mark (or negroni, or wine, whatever gives you the chills) and enjoy the song!

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Featured image via Under the Radar.

• Read also CO-LÀ BREITH SONA DHUT, LIZ FRASER!

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Rudolf Dethu

Rudolf Dethu

Music journalist, writer, radio DJ, socio-political activist, creative industry leader, and a qualified librarian, Rudolf Dethu is heavily under the influence of the punk rock philosophy. Often tagged as this country’s version of Malcolm McLaren—or as Rolling Stone Indonesia put it ‘the grand master of music propaganda’—a name based on his successes when managing Bali’s two favourite bands, Superman Is Dead and Navicula, both who have become two of the nation’s biggest rock bands.
Rudolf Dethu

Rudolf Dethu

Music journalist, writer, radio DJ, socio-political activist, creative industry leader, and a qualified librarian, Rudolf Dethu is heavily under the influence of the punk rock philosophy. Often tagged as this country’s version of Malcolm McLaren—or as Rolling Stone Indonesia put it ‘the grand master of music propaganda’—a name based on his successes when managing Bali’s two favourite bands, Superman Is Dead and Navicula, both who have become two of the nation’s biggest rock bands.

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