Violet Street

AlbumApr 26 / 201910 songs, 40m 30s
Indie Pop Indie Rock
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7.2 / 10

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.

8 / 10

The Californian indie band return to their best on this new record

A tale of affection deeply rooted in the realism of love, not just in romance but in life.

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.

8 / 10

Embracing a more arena-rock style, Local Natives have left behind the melancholic sounds of previous releases, Hummingbird and Gorilla Manor...

7.0 / 10

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.

8.5 / 10

'Violet Street by 'Local Natives, album review by Matthew Wardell. The full-length comes out on April 26th via Loma Vista Recordings