Local Natives

Add Date: February 23

Artist: Local Natives

Album: Gorilla Manor

Label: French Kiss

Genre: Indie Pop/Rock

Comments: The best way to describe this band is if a mad scientist was all TIME TO CREATE THE PERFECT INDIE BAND, then ritualistically murdered people like Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, and imparted the gibs into some sort of devil mixing machine. Local Natives would have come out this machine. I'm pretty unsurprised that this group is already getting shitloads of press and buzz, as they basically bring the trends in indie music to some sort of perfect conclusion. There's no where else to go, guys. Put down your doofy guitar, young teenager, you aren't going to top this group.

If you're a fan at all of the (NOW DEAD) bands I mentioned above, you're probably going to love the hell out of this. And while I generally roll my eyes at this sort of thing, I won't deny that the mixture of exquisite vocal harmonies with fairly rocking (by indie standards) guitar work was pretty damn good. Still, there's the feeling we've seen this all before, and Local Natives is simply polishing the same ground covered by other bands. All the same, this is a pretty mindblowing debut album, and it will be interesting to see what they can do for their next trick.