Rilo Kiley Teases Fans About Reuniting

The indie rock group, which formed in 1998, put out its final full-length album, Under The Blacklight, in 2007. Rilo Kiley last toured in 2008. Following a hiatus, guitarist and co-founder Blake Sennett announced the band had officially broken up during an interview with Spinner in 2011.

Here’s the Facebook post that has gotten everyone talking:

“Record is almost finished, and artwork is nearly done. Going to need your help! More to come.”

While some fans might hope Rilo Kiley is reuniting and working on a brand new album, many sites have pointed out that Sennett as well as vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Jenny Lewis have both talked about putting out a compilation of the band’s unreleased songs.  

“I think we’re going to try and release a two-disc set of 40 songs, or something,” Sennett told Spinner in 2011. “I think that can be more considered like our last release, to me. But I don’t know.”

Lewis told OC Weekly earlier this year, “Rilo Kiley is putting together this B-sides collection. We’ve been listening and sorting through all these songs from 1998 and just the tone of what I was writing back then was so sad, so dark. And I don’t necessarily feel like that all the time anymore.”

A spokeswoman for Rilo Kiley told Spin the record the band is referring to in the Dec. 27 Facebook post is “not new material.”