Native Natives are as nebulous because it will get, shifting shapes and types, with each a part of the sunny SoCal quintet working collectively in unison – composing songs collectively, democratically winding their method via concepts and lyrics and tracks. It’s an uncanny strategy that lends itself to harmonious outcomes, however the band’s fifth LP ‘Time Will Wait For No One’ sprang from an much more unlikely metamorphosis – that of an unsure future. And but, they discovered their method again to 1 one other via music.

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“Simply Earlier than the Morning” – Native Natives

The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on many a band, forcing teams off the street and forcing them to take a protracted look inward. Native Natives have been definitely no exception, even with 15 years as a gaggle, to not point out a previous stint (for many of the band) as Cavil at Relaxation.

Historical past, because it seems, tends so as to add up.

That lengthy look inward revealed some fraught tensions, as every member was left to navigate the world other than the group itself. As Native Natives revealed on Instagram with the discharge of exceptional new report Time Will Wait For No One, it was exhausting to navigate the uneasy realization that “our bond as a band felt prefer it was coming aside.”

All of it got here to a head on the group’s triumphant August 2021 Greek Theatre present: A milestone second, a profession achievement and a hometown conquering for the much-hyped So Cal indie rock heroes, to make sure.

However to listen to the band inform it, “we felt a lot gratitude, however there was a gnawing sense that our future collectively was unclear.” In actual fact, the band thought it is perhaps the final Native Natives present.

Uncertainty abounded in spades, as Kelcey Ayer and his spouse handled being pregnant loss and the band ultimately returned to the studio with producer John Congleton alongside for the journey (admittedly a “rocky take-off,” in line with the band’s Instagram).

The general expertise – of uncertainty, of navigating uncomfortable truths, of coping with anxiousness, loss, melancholy and a crashing music financial system – is a sentiment echoed by many artists rising from the pandemic, even former Native Natives tour mates & indie stalwarts like The Nationwide.

And but, plainly Native Natives realized that the one method “out” is “via” – and thru all of it, collectively. The result’s a rapturous, delicately crafted album that’s lovely in its deft touches and manufacturing, its hovering harmonies and swells of vibrant colour and sound.

“Simply Earlier than The Morning” particularly is a cinematic soundscape of a observe that’s directly recent and but woven via with hallmark Native Natives touches. There’s a heat bass line, a hazy vocal efficiency and the sense that – as with the most effective Native Natives songs – the solar is rising to greet one other day, figuratively and actually.

In the perfect method potential, if ever there have been a band so deeply ingrained in a specific area – in a contemporary sense – like southern California, it’d be the sun-dappled, contemplative music of Native Natives.

To hearken to “Simply Earlier than The Morning” is to greet a California dawn.

On the different finish of the spectrum rests time-honored Native Natives hits like “Previous Lives,” a observe seemingly designed to awaken a sleeping big of a metropolis on a moon-kissed evening. The mix is irresistible.

Simply earlier than the morning
Beginning throughout
You go
Simply earlier than the morning
Beginning throughout
You go

With Native Natives, one will get the sense that it’s by no means too late to begin once more. With the fitting individuals round you, with beloved associates and with an additional serving to hand alongside the way in which, most something feels potential – if solely you are taking a second to embrace the rising solar of a brand new day.

And if the one method out is certainly via turmoil, then Native Natives have emerged right into a vibrant clearing, with blue skies (and hopefully, extra soul-shifting music) on the horizon.

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