LOCAL NATIVES ADD ONE MORE NIGHT TO SOLD OUT NEW YORK CITY SHOW

NOW Playing Bowery Ballroom May 6th & 7th
Gorilla Manor Out Now On Frenchkiss Records

Pitchfork "Best New Music" : "Gorilla Manor proves to be a refreshing reminder of the pleasures of synthesis."
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13925-gorilla-manor/

Los Angeles Times : "It's a rare band that can use its chemistry as its own instrument. But the young, frightfully accomplished Local Natives are a rare L.A. band indeed."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/02/album-review-local-natives-gorilla-manor.html

Bob Boilen of NPR : "The camaraderie practically oozes out of the music of Local Natives, making Gorilla Manor my surprise album of the year."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123495758

NME : "Poetic songs, which billow, churn and explode into light."

Daytrotter : "Local Natives create the kind of feeling - with a musicality so ambitious and daring, but immediately satisfying - that you can only attain if you're head over heels with the very thought of maximizing all that's in your heart

BBC Radio : "reminiscent of Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Spinto Band."



Local Natives US Tour

4/20 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
4/22 Dallas, TX The Cavern
4/23 Austin, TX Emo's Inside
4/24 Houston, TX Mango's
4/26 Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack
4/27 Haittesburg, MS Thirsty Hippo
4/29 St. Augustine, FL Cafe 11
4/30 Nashville, TN The Basement
5/1 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
5/4 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
5/5 Washington, DC DC 9
5/6 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
5/7 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
5/8 Allston, MA Great Scott
5/11 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom
5/12 Columbus, OH The Basement
5/14 Chicago, IL Schubas
5/15 Rock Island, IL - Rock Island Brewing Company
5/17 Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar
5/18 Iowa City, IA The Mill
5/19 Columbia, MO Mojo's
5/21 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
5/22 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
5/25 Spokane, WI Empyrean
5/26 Boise, ID Neurolux
5/27 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
5/28 Vancouver, BC Media Club
5/30 Seattle, WA Sasquatch
6/3 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill



Local Natives make soaring, sky-scraping harmonies, dreamy orchestral melodies, and throbbing tribal beats that bash their way into your soul. Theirs are songs you can ance to almost as well as you can swoon to them. Drawing a line from the vocal stylings of Crosby Stills Nash & Young and the Zombies through the more esoteric edges of post-punk and Afro-beat, this California five piece have communally crafted a brand of indie rock all their own.

For Local Natives everything is a collaboration, from song writing duties to the band's self produced artwork. The three part harmonies come courtesy of keyboardist Kelcey Ayer, guitarists Ryan Hahn and Taylor Rice. Then there's Matt Frazier on drums and Andy Hamm on bass, who look after the band's equally impressive graphics and artwork.

One of SXSW 2009's biggest success stories, the band drove for two days to get from Los Angeles to Austin in order to play nine spectacular shows that saw them sprinting, instruments in hand, from one gig to the next. Their hectic schedule paid off as Local Natives left Austin with the attention of the UK music Industry.

Based in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, three of the five-piece originally hail from Orange County. Kelcey, Ryan and Taylor attended neighboring high schools and hooked up with bassist Andy a year after they graduated, later meeting drummer Matt. They've been playing and evolving - together for three years. Last year, however, the band realized that the new songs they were writing were the sounds of a new project entirely.

It was in December 2008 that the band decamped to Silver Lake, where they all live in the same house. But the Silver Lake digs isn't the first house the band have shared. They lived together in Orange County too, in a place affectionately known as Gorilla Manor. "It was insanely messy and there were always friends over knocking around on guitars or our thrift store piano," says Ryan, "it was an incredible experience and I'll never forget that time." The original Gorilla Manor, where the band wrote the majority of their record, had such an impact that the band has paid tribute to the house by naming their debut album in its honor.

The self-funded Gorilla Manor was recorded by Raymond Richards in West Los Angeles. Richards produced the record with Local Natives in his own Red Rockets Glare Studio.

Featuring twelve sumptuous slices of dappled California sunlight and beguiling percussive rhythms, the album kicks off with the moody, driving, 'Wide Eyes'. Says Ryan, "It's about people's obsession with the miraculous and disastrouswith witnessing extraordinary events". The effervescent, mandolin boasting 'Airplanes' follows, which Kelcey explains is about "longing to have met my grandfather, a great man and pilot, who died before I was born." Also included is the glorious 'Sun Hands', which was released as a limited edition single on Chess Club back in July. According to Taylor, the lyrics describe "that all too familiar feeling of wanting what you can't have especially when you once had it." There's a cover version in the mix too, a barely recognizable version of Talking Heads' 'Warning Sign'. "We've basically flipped the song on its head," says Matt, explaining how they switched David Byrne's original yelped vocals into a beautiful three-part harmony.

http://www.thelocalnatives.com/lnindex.html