RILO KILEY - Take Offs And Landings 2xLP

Label: Barsuk

Having been recently reissued (and immediately sold-out) as a limited-edition 20th anniversary color variant, were happy to have Rilo Kileys debut full-length Take Offs and Landings back in print on 2xLP in standard-weight black vinyl. At the beginning of the 2000s, Rilo Kiley was a fiercely independent band, having released an EP under their own Rilo Records label. But, even with only very minimal touring outside of southern California, their brilliant live show and excellent songcraft started to attract a fair amount of national attention in publications like Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone, and even some airplay on MTV. The band initially self-released Take Offs and Landings before signing to Barsuk, who promptly reissued the album. Rilo Kiley quickly joined the ranks of labelmates Death Cab for Cutie and other acts such as Bright Eyes, The Shins, and The Decemberists as early 00s indie rock exploded into the mainstream. While the band stopped releasing albums after 2007s Under the Blacklight, their popularity has continued to grow in the subsequent years.