Oct 9 2009 7:00P
Warwick University (NME Radar Tour) Coventry, UK
Oct 10 2009 6:00P
Civic Hall Bar (NME Radar Tour) Wolverhampton, UK
Oct 12 2009 7:00P
Waterfront (NME Radar Tour) Norwich, UK
Oct 13 2009 7:00P
Koko (NME Radar Tour) London, UK
Oct 14 2009 7:00P
Concorde 2 (NME Radar Tour) Brighton, UK
Oct 15 2009 7:00P
La Maroquinerie (w/ Peter, Bjorn and John) Paris, France
Oct 16 2009 8:00P
Paradiso Amsterdam, Holland
Oct 17 2009 8:00P
Bang Bang Club Berlin, Germany
Oct 23 2009 12:00A
CMJ Showcase @ Mercury Lounge w/ Patrick Watson, Alec Ounsworth, Sean Bones and more (21+) New York, New York
Nov 1 2009 7:30P
The Clubhouse w/ White Rabbits (allages) Phoenix, Arizona
Nov 2 2009 8:00P
El Rey w/ White Rabbits (allages) Los Angeles, California
Nov 4 2009 8:00P
Slim's w/ White Rabbits (allages) San Francisco, California
Nov 5 2009 8:00P
Wonder Ballroom w/ White Rabbits (allages) Portland, Oregon
Nov 6 2009 8:00A
Biltmore Cabaret w/ White Rabbits (allages) Vancouver, British Columbia
Nov 10 2009 8:00A
3rd & Lindsley w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes and Fool's Gold Nashville, Tennessee
Nov 11 2009 8:00A
40 Watt Club w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Athens, Georgia
Nov 15 2009 8:00A
First Unitarian Church w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 16 2009 8:00A
Black Cat w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Washington DC, Washington DC
Nov 17 2009 8:00A
Bowery Ballroom w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold New York, New York
Nov 20 2009 8:00A
The Starving Artist Keene, New Hampshire
Nov 21 2009 8:00A
Pearl Street Downstairs w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Northampton, Massachusetts
Nov 22 2009 8:00A
Club Metronome w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Burlington, Vermont
Nov 23 2009 8:00A
Petit Campus w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Montreal, Quebec
Nov 24 2009 8:00A
El Mocambo w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Toronto, Ontario
Nov 27 2009 8:00A
Lincoln Hall w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Chicago, Illinois
Nov 28 2009 8:00A
High Noon Saloon w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Madison, Wisconsin
Nov 29 2009 8:00A
Varsity Theater w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dec 1 2009 8:00A
Boulder Theater w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Boulder, Colorado
Dec 2 2009 8:00A
Velour w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Provo, Utah
Dec 3 2009 8:00A
The Neurolux w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros & Fool's Gold Boise, Idaho
Dec 5 2009 8:00A
Neumo's w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Seattle, Washington
Dec 8 2009 8:00A
Biltmore Cabaret w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Vancouver, British Columbia
Dec 9 2009 8:00A
Doug Fir Lounge w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Portland, Oregon
Dec 10 2009 8:00A
W.O.W. Hall w/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Fool's Gold Eugene, Oregon

I've been digging "Airplanes" for about 6 months now and look forward to hearing this one. I'll be seeing them with Edward Sharpe at Lincoln Hall Thanksgiving weekend. Has it leaked yet?

remind me of Slowlands a band i was into a few years ago.

Not sure why this hasn't got more responses. A fair share of the Fleet Foxes and Arcade Fire fans would enjoy this. Harmonised indie from California, where is SOMB?

Saw them this evening, November 29th, 2009.

Set-list

Camera Talk
World News
Warning Sign
Airplanes
Wide Eyes
Shapeshifter
Who Knows, Who Cares
Sun Hands +jam

another energetic, uplifting live performance from the-next-big-thing (in Indie) err..not next to me of course considering I've loved them for nearly 3 years to the day/week as it was December'06 or January'07, I forget, when I was 1st introduced to the band, then known as Cavil at Rest.

Sun Hands is such a winner live. It absolutely kills every-time. Honest-to-god, they might be good to open with that track every show. I told Matt, their drummer, if they ever release a live album/dvd that has got to be on it.

And maybe most satisfying about this show, I am pretty certain, I was right. A lot of people had never heard them before and now dig them. Hopefully memories won't be short and come February, when they mentioned Gorilla Manor should drop in the US, those folks will remember and hound 89.3 to play them. And to be honest, they could play any number of songs off GM. If I picked one, I might suggest "World News"..the vocal-harmonies are just such a great representation about what they are about, a ton more people can and will enjoy them just for the vocal-harmonies on that track.

Interesting in talking with the band after the show and showing them my copy of "Gorilla Manor" they-had-not-seen-it yet in fact, lol. I felt so privileged yet embarrassed in a way. The special pre-order from Rough Trade

edit: for what it actually is worth, Gorilla Manor is their "album-of-the-month" lol. Very cool!

hmm..it might have been a pre-order special or something, I forget.

pre ordered mine & it came signed, maybe it's a US thing?

edit - never mind - just read not out there til next year.
will resume sulking

Soundscape,

Are you putting this on your eoy list or are you considering it a 2010 release.

Gorilla Manor, the debut album from L.A.'s Local Natives, features rustic and yearning vocals, three-part harmonies, clattering percussion, wiggly guitar leads, euphoric chanting, and a Talking Heads cover. In short, the Silver Lake quintet have followed indie rock's major players in recent years-- they knew how to dress for success in 2010. Great for them-- now, what's in it for you? Plenty as it turns out.

Local Natives have already gained a foothold in parts of Europe-- their album has received attention in the UK and they graced the cover of Scandinavia's Sonic magazine late last year-- at home in L.A., and online. With good reason too: Advance singles "Airplanes" and "Sun Hands" recalled elements of Dodos or the Fleet Foxes. The best comparison perhaps is that they're sort of a West Coast Grizzly Bear-- right down to naming an album after the location in which it was recorded. Yet whereas Grizzly Bear's Yellow House is a cozy, isolated New England seaside shack, Local Natives' Gorilla Manor is a squalid Orange County party pad.

At first listen that seems off-- the chops and compositional sense here are the most immediately impressive part of the album. But dig deeper and you realize Local Natives never lose sight of the pleasures of being a youthful rock band-- right down to themes of wanderlust and discovery. "Oh, to see it with my own eyes," goes to the central lyrics to album opener "Wide Eyes". This inquisitiveness and quest for self-knowledge may as well be the record's life-affirming and open-armed thesis statement.

Indeed, this optimism relishes experience and finds opportunity where others may see obstacles: Garage rocker "Camera Talk" initially reads like a harried travelogue ("We're running through the aisles/ Of the churches still in style"), but the band still comes off like they're living the dream-- " And even though I can't be sure/ Memory tells me that these times are worth working for." "Airplanes" is a tribute to one of the bandmember's pilot grandfather, and while the counterpoints of strings and piano are buoyant enough it's the evocative images (chopsticks from his time spent in Japan, a well-thumbed encyclopedia) that indicate his life was well-lived.

But even where the lyrics get more obtuse (a Skype exchange with an ex is likened to a "Cubism Dream"), there's almost always a strong pulse running through the busy, precise compositions: "Shape Shifter", for example, is about impressionistic themes of self-reckoning but the sentiment is also reflected in the song's arrangement. At certain points, it's Gorilla Manor's sludgiest track; at others, it's the most quicksilver and agile. The strings and harmonies of the glacial "Cards & Quarters" and "Who Knows, Who Cares?" are gorgeous, but drum rolls and washes of cymbal hint at imminent collapse. Only closer "Sticky Thread" offers calm.

So while the record's second half dials back the tempo, stuck in its midsection is a cover of the Talking Heads, hardly a band that would be considered "loose." "Warning Sign" isn't the most canonical of their songs, but taking it on is an audacious decision for a band that would be wise to let the comparisons come to them first. They retain the elasticity of the bassline and the general verse-chorus structure, but that's about it: David Byrne's pinprick vocals are treated with melodic contour and supple harmonies, the breakdown veers from nervous to joyfully emphatic, and the guitars soften around the edges. Whether it's "better" than the original is besides the point-- at least for four minutes, Local Natives take ownership of it, fully integrating what might have been an incompatible hard left turn into the record's seamless whole. True, we tend to bow at novelty and innovation, but Gorilla Manor proves to be a refreshing reminder of the pleasures of synthesis.

— Ian Cohen, February 15, 2010

Feb 17 2010 8:00P
SOLD OUT Maroquinerie Paris
Feb 18 2010 8:00P
Le Grand Mix Tourcoing, Lille
Feb 19 2010 8:00P
Le Normandy Saint Lo
Feb 20 2010 8:00P
Route du Rock Winter Festival Saint Malo
Feb 24 2010 8:00P
Thekla Bristol
Feb 25 2010 8:00P
Rescue Rooms Nottingham
Feb 26 2010 8:00P
Concorde II Brighton
Feb 27 2010 8:00P
Brudenell Leeds
Feb 28 2010 8:00P
Arts Centre Norwich
Mar 2 2010 8:00P
SOLD OUT Heaven London
Mar 3 2010 8:00P
Academy 3 Birmingham
Mar 4 2010 8:00P
Club Academy Manchester
Mar 5 2010 8:00P
King Tuts Glasgow
Mar 6 2010 8:00P
Academy 2 Newcastle
Mar 10 2010 8:00P
Academy 2 Dublin
Mar 11 2010 8:00P
Limelight Belfast
Mar 18 2010 8:00P
SWSX Austin, Texas
Mar 19 2010 8:00P
SXSW Austin, Texas
Mar 20 2010 8:00P
SSXW Austin, Texas
Apr 18 2010 3:00P
Coachella Indio, California
Apr 20 2010 8:00P
Solar Culture Tuscon, Arizona
Apr 22 2010 8:00P
The Cavern Dallas, Texas
Apr 23 2010 8:00P
Emo’s (inside) Austin, Texas
Apr 24 2010 8:00P
Mango’s Houston, Texas
Apr 26 2010 8:00P
Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack Little Rock, Arkansas
Apr 27 2010 8:00P
Thirsty Hippo Haittesburg, Mississippi
Apr 29 2010 8:00P
Cafe 11 St. Augustine, Florida
Apr 30 2010 8:00P
The Basement Nashville, Tennessee
May 1 2010 8:00P
Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia
May 4 2010 8:00P
Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
May 5 2010 8:00P
DC 9 Washington DC, Washington DC
May 6 2010 8:00P
Bowery Ballroom New York, New York
May 7 2010 8:00P
Kung Fu Necktie Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 8 2010 8:00P
Great Scott Allston, Massachusetts
May 11 2010 8:00P
Beachland Tavern Cleveland, Ohio
May 12 2010 8:00P
The Basement Columbus, Ohio
May 14 2010 8:00P
Schubas Chicago, Illinois
May 15 2010 8:00P
Rock Island Brewing Company Rock Island, Illinois
May 17 2010 8:00P
400 Bar Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 18 2010 8:00P
The Mill Iowa City, Iowa
May 19 2010 8:00P
Mojo’s Columbia, Missouri
May 21 2010 8:00P
Larimer Lounge Denver, Colorado
May 22 2010 8:00P
Kilby Court Salt Lake City, Utah
May 25 2010 8:00P
Empyrean Spokane, Washington
May 26 2010 8:00P
Neurolux Boise, Idaho
May 27 2010 8:00P
Mississippi Studios Portland, Oregon
May 28 2010 8:00P
Media Club Vancouver, British Columbia
May 30 2010 8:00P
Sasquatch! Seattle, Washington
Jun 3 2010 8:00P
Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, California
Jun 10 2010 8:00P
Bonnaroo Manchester, Tennessee
Jun 15 2010 8:00P
Shepherds Bush Empire London

Tour Dates

I'm really enjoying this. Solid effort, some really great tunes. The only thing that bothers me is that the first track, "Wide Eyes," is the best song on the album. Only a minor complaint, because there's some great stuff here.

short notice..but they are doing a live WEBCAST in s few minutes
http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Local_Nati..._Route_du_Rock/

missed the first part of the show (was at bristol's last home rugby game of the regular league season) but they are way different live to on record
went for it more, in extended rock out jams, vocals were still spot on.
impressed with the drummer too, kept it all together well

would see again

edit - this is the gig in bristol, not the webcast