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Published: 30 August 2007

Feel like dancing?

RILO KILEY
Islington Academy
by Catherine Etoe

I’M not a great dancer, announces Rilo Kiley front woman Jenny Lewis. One Austin Powers style sashay later and we may be tempted to agree with the woman in spangly strappy sandals and minute mini skirt.
Still who cares? After all, this best dressed bunch from LA (bow ties and cummerbunds... eh?) have just made mincemeat of what they say is just their fourth gig in two years.
Solo adventures, notably Lewis’s outstanding Rabbit Fur Coat, and the completion of a new Rilo album released that day ensure there’s little in the way of ring rustiness.
Instruments are swapped with the kind of Kids from Fame aplomb you would expect from a band featuring two former child actors.
But ex-kid star and lead guitarist Blake Sennett is content to let Lewis take centre stage and she doesn’t let the side down; persuading us to fall for the funky, choppy but lyrically repetitive recent single, The Moneymaker; crooning her way karaoke-like through the soulful Give A Little Love; belting out the yearning harmonies of the album’s title track, Under The Blacklight, before getting us all to swing our pants to Breakin’ Up.
Maybe the girl can dance after all.

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