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Album | Local Natives
So-Cal’s new indie rock poster boys.
Southern California's Local Natives appear ready to welcomed into the indie rock family, harmonizing like Fleet Foxes and matching it with the four-on-the-floor clatter of Vampire Weekend on their buzzworthy debut. If anything, at times they run the risk of bringing too much to the party: nods to everything from Afro-pop to chamber pop can be found here, as well as a mildly obscure Talking Heads cover ("Warning Sign," off 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food). It's the affable, unhipsterish quality of these dozen songs that ultimately leaves the band coming out winners. The controlled fury of “Sun Hands,” the album’s best song, could someday become the band’s signature sound, but for the majority of their debut, Local Natives work more somber, reflective territory. The wistful, endearing “Airplanes” sounds like the Natives’ ticket to mixtapes of indie love songs, and “Cubism Dream” finds the band at their sentimental peak, while the aforementioned “Warning Sign” trades in David Byrne’s urgent yelps for dreamy harmonies. Local Natives clearly have a grasp of indie rock’s backstory, but it’s their undeniable charm that makes them welcome newcomers.
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