Jenny Lewis is an amazing songwriter. Her solo career began while she was in the band, Rilo Kiley, with Rabbit Fur Coat, an album in which she collaborated with The Watson Twins. It is a pretty folk album, with a little electronic influence involved. Then, Rilo Kiley put out Under The Blacklight a year later. It was to be their last album. In addition, it got beat up by the critics. It's interesting going back and listening to that album after listening to her new album, Voyager. I now know her and Pierre's solo work really well and Under the Blacklight sounds disjointed, like two different people writing for the same album, which, now, looking back, I think is the case. The Voyager has a lot of hallmarks of that previous album. It sounds like where Rilo Kiley was going sonically and several of the songs on this album certainly lend themselves to this argument. Ryan Adams helped produce this album and Beck helped a little as well. She just got off tour opening for Ryan Adams and that was pretty great. She sings backing vocals in The Postal Service, Bright Eyes and M. Ward's stuff. I had the good fortune of seeing her play with both M. Ward and Conor Oberst a few years back.
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