I love it all so much I call 'I want you back'

Here's a song from a band that I actually had the opportunity to see none to long ago. For a little while I frequented the concert scene in the town over from mine. During this time I saw that Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros were playing, little did I know also on the bill was a band called Local Natives. They have been mentioned on B'rhythms before but only really in passing. Upon hearing them at the show I wasn't so surprised to see them featured on a couple of late night staples on T.V. and their new album Gorilla Manor getting a decent amount of media attention.

The song that stood out to me was their first single. It starts out with just a simple piano melody layered over the sound of just a bunch of guys yelling. Then it breaks in to this pretty simple drum beat (which grows gradually more complex during a couple of the fills). The song is driven entirely by the power of the combined voices of Taylor Rice, Kelcey Ayer and Ryan Hahn. The three combined create these incredibly complex harmonies that pull the song together in such a way that it amazes me I don't see more of it with other bands.

Not to mention the quality of the lyrics they are actually haunting. "I bet when I leave my body for the sky the wait will be worth it," I just loved that lyrics and pretty much made up my mind that this band would definitely be doing big things. Just on another note-one of the members of the band (I cannot figure out who is who-I believe its Taylor Rice-looks like a clone of Freddy Mercury, just sayin'.)

"Airplanes" by Local Natives (2010)-Single

-S