Rilo Kiley appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform their song 2007 song “Silver Lining.” The indie band, led by Jenny Lewis, took the late-night show stage for an intimate performance that focused on the music rather than dramatic production, offering a tease of their current tour.
The group, who reunited earlier this year after breaking up in 2011, are releasing their greatest hits album, That’s How We Choose to Remember It, today. “Silver Lining” originally appeared on 2007’s Under the Blacklight, the band’s final studio LP, and is the opening track on the new compilation.
Rilo Kiley, comprised of Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre De Reeder, and Jason Boesel, recently kicked off their reunion tour, which runs through May and resumes in September. They’ll hit their previously-announced festival appearances at Just Like Heaven (May 10) and Kilby Block Party (May 16) along the way.
“It’s going to be wonderful for us, like going back to the purest version of yourself, that early ’20s place where everything is possible,” Lewis said in a statement. “You’re in a van and Jason’s got the map, Pierre is behind the wheel, and I’m on the shitty acoustic guitar on the bench seat working out a new song with Blake. I don’t think it’s ever been as good as that, when it was just us against the world.”
That’s How We Choose to Remember It features 11 songs off the group’s four LPs. “For some people, Rilo Kiley evokes a formative, emotional time in life, when you were maybe grasping for your place in the universe,” Sennett said in a statement. “We were too.”
De Reeder added, “Planning this reunion over these past months has been like reconnecting with family. We haven’t missed a beat. The stakes are only to have a good time, to revel in this nostalgia. Getting to revisit and celebrate the music from that special time of our lives while experiencing it alongside a lot of people that lived it with us back when, and new folks alike.”
