In hard times having a sense of unity is important. After a decade of largely trouble-free existence as a band from the release of their 2009 debut Gorilla Manor, Local Natives suddenly found that the pandemic had turned everything on it’s head.
What had made the LA based quintet of Nik Ewing (Bass), Taylor Rice (vocals, guitar), Kelcey Ayer (vocals, keys), Ryan Hahn (vocals, guitar) and Matt Frazier (drums) had been the shared experiences that making and playing music together, one that forced separation meant according to Taylor “We stopped being in one another’s orbit for the first time since we were kids…we were coming apart at the seams.”
Time Will Wait For No-One directly addresses that period and the strength the band took from the resumption of their musical lives. Those expecting angst to have filtered into their brand of Parcels-esque indie pop however will be disappointed, the doo-wop titular opener setting a tone which reveals itself as pretty much business as usual. This approach manifests itself in the frictionless likes of Desert Snow and Hourglass, but whilst NYE sees them up the ante in relative terms, the fact that Local Natives now have each other again still seems to be more than enough.
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