It feels strange to be reviewing a ‘best of’ release in 2025 — and stranger still to be old enough to cover reunion releases from bands of your youth.
How We Choose to Remember It is a reminder that millennials are getting older — but more importantly, that Rilo Kiley’s songs still hold up effortlessly. Having gone their separate ways in 2013, ageing American indie-heads rejoiced at news of the band reuniting to headline the Just Like Heaven festival this summer. To mark the occasion, Rilo Kiley are releasing an eleven-track introduction to their back catalogue.
Is it needed? Of course not. But there’s something charmingly old-school about a concise snapshot of a band’s output — and no doubt a vinyl full of bangers will appeal to many.

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