Don’t fuck with Blake Sennett
Below you’ll find the perfect example of why it isn’t a great idea to insult bands on Myspace. Blake Sennett of The Elected takes time to hit back at one such person rather publicly. It’s pretty much a flimsy excuse to see how well embedded video works on this thing, but go with it, it’s highly amusing.
I can also pull a second flimsy excuse from this post, in that I’m going to talk about Blake for a bit. The poor guy is always going to be “the other one” in Rilo Kiley when next to Jenny Lewis, meaning he doesn’t get a fraction of the attention that she does. Which is really quite a shame given how talented the guy is. His songs within Rilo Kiley always seemed to go unnoticed next to Lewis’ tracks, but now thankfully he has an outlet for his own material through The Elected.
As such, I now present a brief retrospective of the career of Blake Sennett. I’ll skip out on the child acting part of it and go straight to the music, starting with the godawful Steve (just to show how people improve) right through to my favourite from this years new Elected album. Enjoy.
MP3 Rilo Kiley – Steve (expired) (from Self-titled EP, 1999)
MP3 Rilo Kiley – Small Figures In A Vast Expanse (expired) (from Take Offs & Landings, 2001)
MP3 Rilo Kiley – So Long (expired) (from The Execution Of All Things, 2002)
MP3 The Elected – Greetings In Braille (from Me First, 2004)
MP3 The Elected – Go On (from Me First, 2004)
MP3 The Elected – Not Going Home (from Sun, Sun, Sun, 2006)
MP3 The Elected – It Was Love (expired) (from Sun, Sun, Sun, 2006)
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