Description
Available with Vinyl records London. New Cassettes Local Natives Torchbearers of the Southern California band sound, Local Natives first drew attention in 2009 when their debut album, Gorilla manor, grabbed fans with its vibrant mix of kinetic, complex rhythms and soaring harmonies. The album drew praise for its enthusiastic balance of postpunk urgency and evocative lyricism. In 2013, the group expanded upon that sound, exploring a darker, more introspective aesthetic on their followup, Hummingbird produced by Aaron Dessner of The National. Their third album, Sunlit Youth, arrived in the summer of 2016 via Infectious and Loma Vista Recordings. Its globe trotting writing process found the group experimenting with production techniques and expanding their palette of entrustments. The classic studio setting is juxt’ed on Local Natives fourth fulllength, Violet Street Loma Vista Recordings with modern production and visuals to form a timeless album. The bands signature soaring 3part harmonies are augmented by loops of tape, physically spliced and transformed by hand, the result of experimenting in the studio with producer Shawn Everett Alabama Shakes, Kacey Musgraves, The War On Drugs. The band’s fifth project Time Will Wait For No One Loma Vista Recordings serves as a harmonious return to their roots. Their sixth album, But I’ll Wait For You, is a companion piece to the album prior to it. Local Natives are Kelcey Ayer, Nik Ewing, Matthew Frazier, Ryan Hahn, and Taylor Rice.
