Blake Sennett Rebounded From Rilo Kiley Split by Resurrecting the Elected

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the electedLaura Dukoff

There was once a time when Blake Sennett wasn't sure he'd ever make another record. After frontwoman Jenny Lewis called for an end to Rilo Kiley in the wake of 2007's 'Under the Blacklight,' the guitarist took a step back from the music industry, including his other band, the Elected. And if it wasn't for a pal sending Sennett back into the studio in 2010, 'Bury Me in My Rings' might never have surfaced.

"My friend Jason [Cupp] said, 'I'm coming to your house and we're going into the studio and we're going to record for a week, or two weeks,'" Sennett tells Spinner. "I was sort of balked at first and then I was like, 'What the hell? This is great, it'll be fun, I haven't played music in forever. Let's do it.'"

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