“I Never” by Rilo Kiley

"I Never" sits on More Adventurous, Rilo Kiley's third album and the 2004 record that carried the American indie band onto a major label, released through Brute/Beaute, their own imprint, with Warner Records handling distribution. Jenny Lewis wrote it alone, and she went to startling lengths for the vocal: wanting the song to feel as exposed as it could, she recorded her part naked in the studio.

Mike Mogis produced and mixed it and plays pedal steel and vibraphone, Tracy Sands brings cello, Blake Sennett plays electric guitar, Pierre de Reeder bass and Jason Boesel drums. That's a lot of shading around a voice meant to sound unguarded, and it suits a record whose title borrows from a Frank O'Hara line tying heartbreak to feeling more adventurous.

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