【News】Blake Sennett Rebounded From Rilo Kiley Split by Resurrecting the Elected
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There was once a time when Blake Sennett wasn't sure he'd ever make another record. After frontwoman Jenny Lewis called for an end to Rilo Kiley in the wake of 2007's 'Under the Blacklight,' the guitarist took a step back from the music industry, including his other band, the Elected. And if it wasn't for a pal sending Sennett back into the studio in 2010, 'Bury Me in My Rings' might never have surfaced.
(差一点的就没有这张超级无敌<Bury Me In My Rings>了....)
"My friend Jason [Cupp] said, 'I'm coming to your house and we're going into the studio and we're going to record for a week, or two weeks,'" Sennett tells Spinner. "I was sort of balked at first and then I was like, 'What the hell? This is great, it'll be fun, I haven't played music in forever. Let's do it.'"
Sennett embraced the stream-of-consciousness method to penning songs, a new approach that excited him. "I would record a drum beat or a guitar part, or something, and start building a song around it," he says. "And I've never done this before, writing the songs as they were recorded. It was really exciting and slightly complex sometimes, because three days later, you'd be like, 'Oh s---, that song should have a bridge ...'"
While there are obvious advantages to crafting a record without much thought to the final product or what's going to become of it, Sennett admits it was helpful once the project became a little less open-ended.
"There's a certain kind of pressure that you almost need," he muses. "Once you've got the label, once we knew we had a release, that's an added pressure that's like a positive one, where you know it's coming out."
[from www.spinner.com]
There was once a time when Blake Sennett wasn't sure he'd ever make another record. After frontwoman Jenny Lewis called for an end to Rilo Kiley in the wake of 2007's 'Under the Blacklight,' the guitarist took a step back from the music industry, including his other band, the Elected. And if it wasn't for a pal sending Sennett back into the studio in 2010, 'Bury Me in My Rings' might never have surfaced.
(差一点的就没有这张超级无敌<Bury Me In My Rings>了....)
"My friend Jason [Cupp] said, 'I'm coming to your house and we're going into the studio and we're going to record for a week, or two weeks,'" Sennett tells Spinner. "I was sort of balked at first and then I was like, 'What the hell? This is great, it'll be fun, I haven't played music in forever. Let's do it.'"
Sennett embraced the stream-of-consciousness method to penning songs, a new approach that excited him. "I would record a drum beat or a guitar part, or something, and start building a song around it," he says. "And I've never done this before, writing the songs as they were recorded. It was really exciting and slightly complex sometimes, because three days later, you'd be like, 'Oh s---, that song should have a bridge ...'"
While there are obvious advantages to crafting a record without much thought to the final product or what's going to become of it, Sennett admits it was helpful once the project became a little less open-ended.
"There's a certain kind of pressure that you almost need," he muses. "Once you've got the label, once we knew we had a release, that's an added pressure that's like a positive one, where you know it's coming out."
[from www.spinner.com]
