It's been a very long time coming, but the
new Local Natives album, 'Hummingbird', is
almost with us. The Los Angeles band's
brilliant debut LP, 'Gorilla Manor',
appeared in the UK way back in November
2009, a full four months before it's American release.
I saw Local Natives live in early 2010 when their Californian harmonies, rhythmic
attack, bristling moustaches and all-round
good-eggedness, effortlessly won over an
initially sceptical, sparsely populated
audience. Since then they have toured
relentlessly, lost their original bassist and
finally readied album number two.
Here are a couple of choice cuts from album
number one.
Greatest Hits
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Some time ago, probably several years by this point, John Medd and I were having a back and forth on the subject of guitar solos in rock. T... -
Over the past few weeks, a succession of time and brain-space constraints did their utmost to put the kibosh on my attempts to pull toget... -
I was very sad to hear of Danny Thompson's passing a couple of weeks back, at the age of 86. Unless you've tried particularly hard t... -
A couple of weeks ago, I dragged my tired old bones off to catch the great Richard Dawson in concert. Long suffering readers of this blog... -
The cancer that attacked your lung last year, then moved to your brain, has finally taken you. We'd been given notice that the end might...
2 comments:
New to me. I like it.
I have been listening to tracks from the album yesterday...really good stuff. I want to hear the rest of the album
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