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radiodead said:
Local Natives were one of those late aughts early 20’s bands that just never did anything for me. Same goes for Real Estate.

Tame Impala was in this group as well but have finally warmed to some of the earlier records.
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Local Natives was the exact same for me. They just seemed to jump on the bandwagon and do a bland Los Angeles lukewarm version of the "indie rock" sound that was hip at the time, with other bands doing it WAY better.

That said, love me some Real Estate though haha! Earlier Tame Impala is fire too. IMO the new record is a lot better than his last but I really miss the breezy guitar psych of that first EP and debut Innerspeaker.
 
SanSeattle said:
Local Natives was the exact same for me. They just seemed to jump on the bandwagon and do a bland Los Angeles lukewarm version of the "indie rock" sound that was hip at the time, with other bands doing it WAY better.

That said, love me some Real Estate though haha! Earlier Tame Impala is fire too. IMO the new record is a lot better than his last but I really miss the breezy guitar psych of that first EP and debut Innerspeaker.
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I think Currents is Tame Impala’s best album!
 
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radiodead said:
Yea when I listen to Local Natives- Gorilla Manor I usually just go “why would I listen to this when I can listen to Fleet Foxes do it way better”
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Weird, until people started saying it, I never mentally made a comparison with Local Natives to Fleet Foxes.
I thought they had more in line at the time with things like Wild Nothing, Peter Bjorn & John, The Shins, and Surfer Blood. PARTICULARLY Surfer Blood, actually... not just the reverb drenched vocals, but because of the extra percussion. Having an auxiliary percussionist to a traditional rock band format seemed to be a thing 10 years ago.
 
I still haven't bought a single new album in 2020... It's really not been my year thus far. Was looking forward to Disq and Caroline Rose, but despite a few nice songs these aren't must-buy albums for me. But it's also because I've been massively distracted by other music lately; I've lately been discovering Laura Nyro's Eli and Tendaberry albums, the first 2 Rickie Lee Jones albums and the whole David Ackles discography for the very first time and I'm totally captivated; right up to the point that I can hardly listen to something else at the moment. Since I discovered these super late I'm obviously more than open for suggestions based on these artists and records :)
 
parnell17 said:
I still haven't bought a single new album in 2020... It's really not been my year thus far. Was looking forward to Disq and Caroline Rose, but despite a few nice songs these aren't must-buy albums for me. But it's also because I've been massively distracted by other music lately; I've lately been discovering Laura Nyro's Eli and Tendaberry albums, the first 2 Rickie Lee Jones albums and the whole David Ackles discography for the very first time and I'm totally captivated; right up to the point that I can hardly listen to something else at the moment. Since I discovered these super late I'm obviously more than open for suggestions based on these artists and records :)
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the recently re-released debut of laura nyro is great, too
 
MadLucas said:
Weird, until people started saying it, I never mentally made a comparison with Local Natives to Fleet Foxes.
I thought they had more in line at the time with things like Wild Nothing, Peter Bjorn & John, The Shins, and Surfer Blood. PARTICULARLY Surfer Blood, actually... not just the reverb drenched vocals, but because of the extra percussion. Having an auxiliary percussionist to a traditional rock band format seemed to be a thing 10 years ago.
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Honestly, I think this probably comes from the way that Local Natives do the multiple vocalist harmonization the way that Fleet Foxes do. stylistically, FF are much more folk/Americana in their brand of indie, whereas Local Natives are more towards the pop-adjacent styles some of the examples you gave (especially Wild Nothing and "Astro Coast"-era Surfer Blood).
 
parnell17 said:
Oh yes thx, that VMP-exclusive was the reason I even wrote in this thread. Should‘ve been an Essential release IMO.
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I agree. Better than most archival releases from them this last while. There’s another limited pressing about but doesn’t seem to have a wide reissue yet
 
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