A lot of bands that I love have this tendency to have a good debut album then an amazing follow up and then they just turn into shit. The slide into mediocrity might take a few albums, but it happens. Not everyone can be Radiohead.

Rilo Kiley's follow up album was amazing. The Execution of All Things is a fantastic album filled with everything I love about Rilo Kiley. Good Jenny songs, good Blake songs, strange interludes, and sarcastic lyrics. They've released two albums since then and have gone from amazing to mediocre to incredibly mediocre. Their last album, Under the Blacklight, is their most radical album to date mostly because of how much it deviates into the mainstream. Great for casual fans and the mainstream, but terrible for long time fans.