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"Because Rilo Kiley`s More Adventurous was a triumph of the well-made narrative song, its markedly terser and beatier follow-up, which is also the band`s true major-label debut, will be accused of sellout. Instead, it`s yet more adventurous, a prosperous band`s challenge to its comfortable cult. Always too cute for serious indie cred, Jenny Lewis slips four songs about dangerous sex in which she herself might be indulging -- right now, in her pretty prosperity -- into music that`s defined rather than just decorated by its stylistic flirtations. Repetitive if not wordless refrains pop up everywhere, one in Spanish with a Latin beat; here a soul horn section, there a Fleetwood Mac homage, there a synth outro and almost nowhere much guitar-band alt-rock. The emotions aren`t as detailed as in the past, but they`re no less intense...4 STARS" -- Robert Christgau, rollingstone.com (Wea)
