Nylon - October 2008 - (Page 110) great expectations TONGUE, , JENNY LEWIS’S SECOND SOLO ALBUML ACIDS DOWN THAT STIL GOE DELIVERS A SALTY SOUND BY SWEET. BY MIKAEL WOOD. PHOTOGRAPHED KY PAMELA LITT Last January, Jenny Lewis came up with a mantra she’s tried to live by all year: “2008 is going to be great.” That positive thinking bears ripe fruit this month with the release of Acid Tongue, the second solo album from the frontwoman of L.A.’s Rilo Kiley. As its title implies, Acid Tongue is a scrappier, slightly harder-edged affair than the delicate, country-tinged Rabbit Fur Coat (2006); Lewis completed the new record in just three weeks with an allstar backing band that included M. Ward, Johnathan Rice, Farmer Dave Scher, Rilo’s Jason Boesel, and even Elvis Costello, who duets with Lewis on “Carpetbaggers.” NYLON: You whipped this record out in pretty impressive time. JENNY LEWIS: I wanted to capture a live feeling, and I wanted it to rock. But I don’t think we recorded it without care—we weren’t hasty. We definitely were obsessive about the details, and we discussed the record endlessly before we actually went into the studio. We had a pretty solid outline as to what we were gonna go in and accomplish in those three weeks. NYLON: It’s tempting to speculate if your desire for a more off-the-cuff vibe was a response to the intricate studio work Rilo Kiley did on last year’s Under the Blacklight. JL: It was, yeah. Everything I do seems to be a reaction to 110
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