Local Natives by Elizabeth Miranda
Local Natives follow-up last year’s ‘Time Will Wait For No One’.
Local Natives will give a digital release to their sixth studio album But I’ll Wait For You on April 19th.
But I’ll Wait For You is the companion piece to our 2023 release Time Will Wait For No One. Maybe not an answer to a question but an exhale to an inhale. There is so little that’s in our control but among all this chaos, we can choose to be there for each other.
On Time Will Wait For No One, the band were, ‘largely happy to let the listener build their own mood’, according to Live4ever’s review:
“Fraternity is a central theme: the airy closer Paradise for instance is a somber reflection of times when the only people you can rely on are those in closest proximity. With a lonely sounding piano motif and yearning strings, by its finale its disposition has swung back towards a bruised, shared kind of hope.”
This, even Local Natives acknowledge though, is something of an outlier. Largely the band are happy to let the listener build their own mood; tracks like Empty Mansions, Just Before The Morning and Ava lodge in the same unassuming space as Parcels or Balthazar, rocking the boat ever so gently without making demands.
But I’ll Wait For You tracklist:
Alpharetta
Throw It In The Fire
Neon Memory
Camera Shy
As Soon As You Arrive
Ending Credits
Raincoat
April
Walk Before You Run
But I’ll Wait For You