Local natives
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 Local natives on the Optimus Primavera Sound in Portugal , 2013. |
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| General information | |
| origin | Silver Lake , United States |
| Genre (s) | Indie rock |
| founding | 2005 |
| Website | www.thelocalnatives.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Kelcey Ayer | |
Vocals, electric guitar, electric bass
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Taylor Rice |
Vocals, electric guitar, keyboard, mandolin
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Ryan Hahn |
| Matt Frazier | |
Electric bass |
Nik Ewing (since 2012) |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Andy Hamm (2006-2011) |
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Local Natives is an indie rock band from Silver Lake , United States , formed in 2005 .
The band consists of Kelcey Ayer ( vocals , keyboard , percussion , electric guitar ), Taylor Rice (vocals, electric guitar, electric bass ), Ryan Hahn (electric guitar, keyboards, vocals, mandolin ), Matt Frazier ( drums ) and Nik Ewing (electric bass). Ewing only joined the band in 2012 after Andy Hamm left the group after six years.
So far, the band has released Gorilla Manor (2009), Hummingbird (2013) and Sunlit Youth (2016), three albums that all entered the national album charts . In addition, the group has so far released ten single releases on the market. Her songs Wide Eyes and Mt. Washington received a lot of attention. Wide Eyes was selected as the Australian Democrats' election song , while Mt. Washington is on the official game soundtrack for the adventure game Life Is Strange .
The band has played at several major music festivals around the world since its inception, including the Isle of Wight Festival , Southside , the Hurricane Festival , the Haldern Pop Festival , T in the Park in 2010 and 2013, and SXSW .
history
Foundation and Gorilla Manor
The group was formed in 2005 in Orange County , where musicians Kelcey Ayer, Ryan Hahn and Taylor Rice attended Tesoro High School , under the name Cavil at Rest . A year after the three musicians enrolled at the University of California in Los Angeles , two more musicians joined the band: bassist Andy Hamm and drummer Matt Frazier. In 2008 the band moved to Silver Lake , Los Angeles to work on their debut album.
Their debut album Gorilla Manor , which the musicians named after a house in Orange County where they had lived together for a long time, was first released in November 2009 in the UK . It was not until four months later, in February 2010, that the album was released in the United States via Frenchkiss Records . Gorilla Manor was funded out of pocket and recorded at Red Rockets Glare Studios by Raymond Richards. The album debuted at number 160 on the US album charts and stayed there for a total of two weeks.
The group reached the first media attention in 2009 after nine concerts at the SXSW in Austin , Texas completed. Her song Wide Eyes was used by the Australian Democrats in their campaigns for the Australian general election in 2010. In the same year the group played at the Haldern Pop Festival , the Isle of Wight Festival , the Southside and Hurricane Festival , and the Optimus Alive! and the T in the Park .
The local natives played many of their appearances in the USA together with colleagues from We Barbarians . In 2011 the group played their first European tour supporting Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and their first concert in Australia at St. Jerome's Laneway Festival . In March 2011 it was announced that bassist Andy Hamm had left the band. In 2012 he was represented by Nik Ewing initially as a session musician, and since October 2013 Ewing has been a permanent member of the band.
Hummingbird and the international breakthrough
At Lollapalooza , the group announced that they would like to release a new album. This is called Hummingbird and was released on January 29, 2013, like its predecessor via Frenchkiss Records . Aaron Dessner from the indie rock band The National was responsible as the producer . Hummingbird became a hit album in the United States and entered the national album charts at number 12. It was there for a total of three weeks. The album was also listed in the British charts . It reached the 58th place there. A popular song on the album is Mt. Washington , which made it onto the official soundtrack of the adventure video game Life Is Strange .
In 2013 an appearance at the T in the Park and the Glastonbury Festival followed . This performance took place as part of an extensive world tour that led through several countries in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. The group played at several major festivals around the world, including the Melt! , the Fuji Rock Festival and the Pukkelpop . This concert tour started on May 15, 2013 in Sydney , Australia , and ended after 80 performances in Paris , France .
In August 2014, the band announced at a concert in Salt Lake City , Utah , which was part of the Twilight Concert Series , that they had already started work on their third album.
Kelcey Ayer (vocals, keyboard)
Ryan Hahn (vocals, electric guitar)
Nik Ewing (vocals, electric bass)
Matt Frazier (drums)
Taylor Rice (vocals, electric guitar)
Music genre
Local natives play a classic variant of indie rock and folk pop , which is comparable to Arcade Fire , Fleet Foxes and Vampire Weekend . The music is also described as “multi-faceted indie pop ”, in which “powerful melodies meet innovative sound structures.” The music was also described as a “West Coast version of Grizzly Bear ”. The English edition of Rolling Stone also makes musical comparisons with Grizzly Bear or Fleet Foxes and describes the music as a mixture of "dazzling harmonies similar to CSNY and wide-spiral psychedelia".
The Guardian writes that the group is taking their musical direction on Hummingbird in a direction similar to that on their debut album Gorilla Manor . The melancholy passages come into their own through the ascending vocals of Kelcey Ayer. In the play Colombia Ayer deals with the death of his mother. The reviewer attributes a musical resemblance to Radiohead to this piece . The British Independent describes the music as a “mixture of two of the most successful music exports in this branch”, Arcade Fire and Fleet Foxes, which, however, gives the group “little chance of a musical breakthrough”. The lyrics are written on a very personal level.
Discography
Albums
- 2009: Gorilla Manor
- 2013: Hummingbird
- 2016: Sunlit Youth
- 2019: Violet Street
Singles
- 2009: Sun Hands
- 2009: Camera Talk
- 2010: Airplanes
- 2010: Wide Eyes
- 2010: Who Knows Who Cares
- 2010: World News
- 2012: Breakers
- 2013: Heavy Feet
- 2013: You & I
- 2013: Ceilings
- 2013: Past Lives
- 2013: Villainy
- 2016: Fountain of Youth
- 2016: Coins
Web links
- official homepage
- Local natives at laut.de
- Local Natives at Allmusic (English)
- Local Natives at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Chart tracking: US - UK
- ↑ a b c Paul Lester: The Guardian : New Band of the Week: Local Natives (No 560)
- ↑ a b c Frenchkiss Records : Band Profile: Local Natives ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Derwesten.de : Haldern Pop - ambitious festival with a spirit of discovery
- ^ Music News : Isle of Wight Festival line-up complete
- ↑ Thomas Peter: Festival Lists : Final Spurt at the Southside / Hurricane: Alberta Cross, Local Natives, Ash, Kap Bambino and Martina Topley Bird - schedules published
- ↑ Televisão Independente : Local Natives no cartaz do Alive! 10 (Portuguese)
- ^ British Broadcasting Company : T in the Park 2010 set times
- ^ Australian Broadcast Company : Local Natives add headline shows to first Australian tour
- ↑ LA Weekly : Local Natives' Big Vaulted Ceilings ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Melody Lau: Exclaim! : Local Natives Growth Spurt
- ↑ Alexa Ray Corriea: Gamespot : These Are the Songs in Life is Strange: Life is Strange, but the music is on point.
- ↑ Chris Swindells: Virtual Festivals : Local Natives lead new T In The Park additions: Six new acts announced for T In The Park 2013 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fabian Soethoff: Musikexpress : GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2013: Rolling Stones, Mumford and Sons, Arctic Monkeys, Portishead, The XX ...
- ↑ a b c Isabelle Champagne: MXDWN : Local Natives Announce Summer 2013 Tour Dates
- ↑ Tyler Bowles: Salt Artists : Staring At Our Ceilings: Local Natives Come to Salt Lake City
- ^ Leonie Cooper: New Musical Express : Local Natives - Hummingbird Review
- ↑ Deborah Schmidt: Laut.de : Local Natives - Gorilla Manor criticism
- ^ Ian Cohen: Pitchfork : Local Natives - Gorilla Manor Review
- ↑ Jon Dolan: Rolling Stone : Local Natives - Hummingbird Review
- ↑ Phil Mongredien: The Guardian : Local Natives - Hummingbird Review
- ↑ Simmy Richman: Independent : Local Natives - Hummingbird criticism
- ↑ Annette: Whiskey-soda.de : Local Natives - Hummingbird Review ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
