Sunlit youth

"This release is not a cliched, sulky attempt to do something new fuelled by the frustrating necessity for a narrative to complement their art. Instead, Sunlit Youth sounds like music Local Natives want to make".

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"This is a bridge to bigger and hopefully even better things. Which feels like the exact point . For all the globe-trotting that went into the album, this is a band that - perhaps more than any other at the moment - innately sound like and capture their Californian home in all its beautiful complexity".

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"It's not without its moments, most notably the gently seductive Dark Days. But despite plenty of clever ideas, too much of Sunlit Youth sounds so polished it becomes oddly disengaging".

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