Hello and welcome to episode 171 of the ACPG podcast.
This week Ben is zooming with Los Angeles where he spoke with Nick and Kelsey of the fantastic Local Natives.
Now, I (Ben) have been a massive fan of Local Natives since their debut album Gorilla Manor and especially the songs Sun Hands and Airplanes. So it was great to talk to them about that but also the release of their new album Time Waits For No One. We spoke about the new album, record release parties, and touring, and more.
The album was preceded at the tail-end of last year by the swaggering psychedelia-tinged indie-pop of ‘Just Before the Morning’ which jumped up to the B-list at 6Music, as well as seeing them doing an LA residency back in December that saw them joined on the stage by contemporaries including Best Coast, Darkside and Miya Folick. The past year or so has also seen them hit up Jimmy Kimmel twice, one of which saw them joined by Sharon Van Etten for their collaborative track ‘Lemon’, while they also headed out on a sold-out US tour last summer as well as stop-offs at Lollapalooza, Outsidelands and a bunch more staples of the US festival circuit. The band are also celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their commercial breakthrough Hummingbird album this year, which feels ripe for revisiting (it is still a total knockout).
This new set finds the band linking with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton (Death Cab, Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent) for a run of sessions across a number of historic LA studios that birthed a set of songs rooted in metamorphosis: taking in newfound fatherhood, periods of isolation, loss and identity crisis. Through it all though, the band were reminded that the constants are the people you love and - in their case - their fellow bandmates. While the album’s title Time Will Wait For No One has its ominous undertones, the sentiment at the core of the album is that your loved ones will.
Can’t recommend spending a bit of headphone time with the new record enough if you get a moment, the production on it is glorious - something they’ve really honed over the four albums to date that have seen them quietly become one of the most consistently acclaimed bands of the last decade (not a single album below a 75 on Metacritic).
Thank you to Nick and Kelsey, and Alex and Vanessa for all their help with this episode.
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ACPG 093: Never Not Nothing Interview
ACPG 092: Cristian Machado
ACPG 091: 2020 Releases with Cornershop and Rews
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ACPG 089: 2020 Releases with Sea Girls (Rory Young)
ACPG 088: 2020 Releases with Jamie McCredie & Jo Harrop
ACPG 087: 2020 Releases with Lindsay Ell
ACPG 086: Broken Record Special
ACPG 085: Record Store Day Special
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ACPG 082: Dave Keuning (The Killers, Keuning), Interview
ACPG 081: John Newman, Interview
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