Crunching Numbers: Local Natives.

yesssssssssssssssssssssss.

When I moved to New York,  I exclusively listened to Local Natives' four songs on MySpace, on repeat, for three weeks straight. There were no CDs to order, couldn't find anywhere to download tracks, and they only had streaming tunes available and the handful of songs available from their Daytrotter session a few months before. I sat in the tiny NYU dorm I was staying at until my lease started, perched over one of those wooden college desks in an uncomfortable chair with a blue, dirty cushion and listened over and over to "Airplanes" and "World News" while wishing I could fly back home and see them play in Midwestern barns on Daytrotter's tour.

It's been months and months, but I'm pretty sure I love their music just as much as I did then.

Much deserved, much enjoyed.

Oh My Space.

humminah humminah HUH!??!?

the Local Natives clan, adajcent to Sade and Nick Jonas.

Our boys have made it big time.

list: things i liked this year.

perfection.

(ditto.)

you had me at "pizza".

you had me at "I HATE!"

not into the xx's live show, but the album is a whole 'nother story.

i want to hipster-hate the hell out of these guys in their cute little sweaters with their cute little pop tunes but fuck it, i can't. and i'd be lying if i said i wasn't excited to hear the next album.

i listened to this album a zillion times in 2009.

(i wouldn't be surprised if i did the same in 2010.)

is it me or did everyone forget this album happened?

 

Post-Nothing gets the "I never in a million years thought I'd like this album and yet cannot listen to it in my office because i punk-dance and rock the fuck out in my chair and it's humiliating" award.

sadly, the last harlem shakes album.

(i guess this won't be a better year.)

melodic rock that makes you want to scream, cry and
jump head first into a mosh pit, all at once.

(if this album doesn't blow your socks off, you'd better be barefoot.)

best album of the year.