Local Natives – But I’ll Wait For You (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:00 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loma Vista Recordings
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 post-punk urgency and evocative lyricism. In 2013, the group expanded upon that sound, exploring a darker, more introspective aesthetic on their follow-up, 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 juxtaposed on Local Natives’ fourth full-length, Violet Street [Loma Vista Recordings] with modern production and visuals to form a timeless album. The band’s signature soaring 3-part 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.
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Local Natives – Time Will Wait for No One (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:13 minutes | 411 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loma Vista Recordings
Living in LA, there are a lot of people looking for that one trick that will help the new them emerge fully realized, successful and happy. It’s a worthwhile, but doomed pursuit, and the best we can hope for is to be present in a moment. Local Natives album comes at a moment of personal metamorphosis. Former selves melting away, some becoming fathers, some enduring periods of isolation, loss, and identity crisis. Time Will Wait For No One is a mantra of reassurance in response to relentless changes.
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Local Natives – Sunlit Youth (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:30 minutes | 534 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infectious
Los Angeles alternative group Local Natives follows its 2013 sophomore release Hummingbird with Sunlit Youth, an energetic and optimistic collection that stands in bold contrast to the bleakness of Hummingbird. The band members say that a lot of the excitement recording this album came from discovering how to make songs in different ways, with different energy, to challenge themselves to do something different each time.
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Local Natives – Hummingbird (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:05 minutes | 491 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infectious
Hummingbird, the second album from Los Angeles band Local Natives, was created from the emotional framework of being stretched between two opposite poles. In the two years since the group’s debut release, the Natives members saw the highest highs and the lowest lows they had ever experienced together. While their wildest musical dreams were coming to fruition, personal relationships faltered or fell apart and a close family member suddenly died. As such, the songs on Hummingbird embody a similar dichotomy: fragile and powerful, opulent and spare, tense and poised. Aaron Dessner of The National co-produced the session at his home studio in Brooklyn, the first time the band had ever recorded outside its native California.
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