Local Natives

This band was happened up through one of my favourite things. Creeping.

While searching one of my favourite creepage sites, Buzznet. I came across an interview by this band. Intrigued, I went to their myspace. Immediately I was smitten. They're very Arcade Fire meets Fleet Foxes meets pure epic bands.

They're whimsical and enchanting. Holy. I'm so happy I found these guys.

Ok SO. They're from LA (for people bad with acronyms such as myself Los Angeles). There are five guys in the band (sidenote, how cool/quirky is that picture). Taylor Rice, Kelcey Ayer, Ryan Hahn, Andy Hamm and Matt Frazier. Their names make me wonder if they are their real names, or if they changed them... such cool spellings. Taylor Rice plays guitar and vocals, Kelcey Ayer plays percussion, vocals AND the keyboard (yes he is officially my favourite). Ryan Hahn plays the guitar as well and does some vocals. Andy Hamm plays the bass ANNNNDD Matt Frazier plays drums. Now I'm not sure who is who in the picture, but whatever it doesn't matter. They're all pretty cool!!

A little fun fact is that the band used to be called Cavil at Rest but switched their name and are now fairly big in the UK after their first full length release (below).
Alright SO. Trippy cover, eh? This is their first full length, entitled Gorilla Manor. It was released in September 2009 in the UK and February 2010 over here. The album is phenomenal. It demonstrates their harmonizations (if that's a word) and their heavy guitar (in some songs). The album reminds me of summer, for some reason but it's just so good. It's extremely chill music, and it's clear that they can actually sing and play their instruments. Which would lead me to believe that they would be phenomenal live. On this album they also have live songs, which demonstrates that they're AWESOME live!!

This is the smallest blurb possible. But I just had to blog about them because I'm so smitten right now... a week from now, I'll probably have a million more things to say about them but that's just too bad, I'm doing this NOW.

Ok so songs to download?!?

Airplanes

Who Knows Who Cares

Shape Shifter

Wide Eyes

Sun Hands

Airplanes... this is the first song I heard by them. It's so good and cutesy, talking about flying to go see someone. It starts out with them making weird airplane noises maybe? Or it could be hecklers? I'm not sure hahaha. BUT It has a piano in it, again my weakness. So good.

Who Knows Who Cares... this is a slow song. There's a piano again. I also like the name of the song... GOOD thought to shove into people's minds.

Shape Shifter... This is also one of the first songs I heard by them. It's slower again, but picks up by the chorus. And the way the chorus shows harmonizing and it's very very folksy.

Wide Eyes... this song has a really cool drum thing going on, with a weird percussion instrument, that's kind of ticking... I'm not sure what it is but it adds to the cool rhythm of the song. Again it's folksy, but soo good.

Sun Hands... apparently I have some obsession with nature songs right now. This song starts out about climbing a hill or something. I just love it. Again the chorus is a melding of everyone's voice... LOVE IT.

Ok SO. That's all for today folks.

Enjoy.