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.
ACPG 057: Music Law - Part 1
ACPG 056: Career in Music
ACPG 055: Learning the Guitar
ACPG 054: Time Management & Decision Making
ACPG 053: Identity & Feedback
ACPG 052: Playing Live & Location
ACPG 051: Forming & Joining a Band
ACPG 050: Fans
ACPG 049: Mobile Apps for Bands
ACPG 048: Marketing - Part 2
ACPG 047: Marketing - Part 1
ACPG 046: Releasing Your Music
ACPG 045: Record Deals
ACPG 044: Festivals
ACPG 043: Touring
ACPG 042: Song Writing
ACPG 041: Season 2 Intro
ACPG 040: Outro Episode - Ben and James - talk about the journey so far and what's next
ACPG 039: Winchop (Part 2) - Band - talk getting signed, long distance collaboration, whiskey covers and interacting with other artists
ACPG 038: Winchop (Part 1) - Band - talk getting started in music, musicals, duo’s vs a band and forging a partnership
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