"The Lining Is Silver" by Relient K, Saturday, August 19, 2023
When Relient K had been together for ten years, they decided to treat their avid fans with some of their best scrapped tracks on 2008's The Birds and the Bee Sides . But the album wasn't exactly a straight b-sides project, but rather called a "double EP"--a combination of new tracks recorded for a project called the Nashville Tennis EP and their b sides spanning from their the time of their second record, The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek ; tracks from out-of-print EPs; and rarities from special editions of their commercial second era, Mmhmm and Five Score and Seven Years Ago . While a release like The Birds and the Bee Sides certainly plays into boyish Relient K wit that made the band famous, the experimental songs on the Nashville Tennis EP show a notable shift in the band's musical output. I FOUND MY NEW BLACK SHOES WHILE CLEANING OUT THE BONES LEFT IN MY CLOSET. Relient K started out as three small-town friends who signed a record deal. The band had