Violet Street
The L.A. band has long carried the flag for a particular strain of SoCal indie, but the follow-up to 2016’s fashionably yearning Sunlit Youth sounds both more personal and more timeless.
With their fourth album, 2019's effusive Violet Street, Local Natives strike a pleasing balance between the promise of their kinetic debut and the atmospheric explorations of their subsequent follow-ups.
Embracing a more arena-rock style, Local Natives have left behind the melancholic sounds of previous releases, Hummingbird and Gorilla Manor...
Los Angeles gets a bad reputation from so many people who judge it from their position outside the snowglobe of the city, people whose experience of it is often fleeting and transient.
'Violet Street by 'Local Natives, album review by Matthew Wardell. The full-length comes out on April 26th via Loma Vista Recordings