Rilo Kiley

Back When They Were Good is a depressingly long series of once great bands that have gone down the shitter.

now Throwaway pop that relies far too much on the sex appeal of Jenny Lewis.

then Hey kids, look! It’s something called subtlety. You see, back in the olden days, had better things in them than inane pap about porn stars, smoking, and whatever the hell else that last album was going on about. Take Science vs Romance for example. You could probably pull a few meanings out of it and never really settle on a definitive answer. To me it’s a song about someone moving past their reliance on religion and switching to rationality. To you, who knows? Ambiguity is a good thing. As are songs longer than three minutes. It wasn’t a crime to put out a song that ran six minutes back in 2001. If only the same could be said now.