Blog: State Magazine

Right from the start of Californian quintet Local Natives ' debut, it's clear that this is something special. Gently melodic guitar is joined by a ridiculously insistent drum-beat for all of 39 seconds, before Taylor Rice's dreamy vocals enter the fray: " Oh some evil spirit/ Oh some evil this way comes/ They told me how to to fear it/ Now they're placing it on their tongues ". Whether it's about the perils of pill-taking or a more metaphysical meandering on faith, we're not sure, and providing it sounds as good as this, we couldn't give a hoot. And [...]