Saturday night’s show at Chateau Ste. Michelle was momentous, and not just because it kicked off the Woodinville winery and venue’s cornerstone summer concert series. It also was among the first official performances its headliners, the Jenny Lewis-fronted rock outfit Rilo Kiley, have given since 2008. 

Compared onstage to “coming home for the holidays,” the quartet turned quintet’s return after its ostensibly acrimonious split was made possible by a couple things: letting-bygones-be-bygones maturity (the initial fracturing of the group was in large part a result of Lewis and primary co-songwriter Blake Sennett dating, breaking up, and being ill-prepared for the consequences); a desire by Lewis, who recently did a comeback tour with the Ben Gibbard- and Jimmy Tamborello-assisted supergroup The Postal Service, to again perform songs whose meaningfulness to people can be sensed by how they sing them back. 

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