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Gorilla Manor

Local NativesMP3 Download
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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  • Original Release Date: 2 Nov 2009
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best albums of 2009 7 Nov 2010
Format:Audio CD
Other reviews have been quite thorough so no need to waffle. A really wonderful album, this. Vocal melodies are sweet and harmonies are spot on. Instrumentation is faultless and the album is simultaneously playful, heartbreaking and uplifting. Reminiscent of The Arcade Fire, Beach Boys Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes if you're looking for a reference point. A really superb album, standout tracks (for me) are: 'Who Knows Who Cares'(The video for which pretty much sums up their whole sound), 'Sun Hands' and 'Wide Eyes.'
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4.0 out of 5 stars Local Natives - The lords of the manor? 3 April 2010
By Red on Black TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
4.5 stars

Do you ever find yourself putting put on an album listening to it only once and yet knowing that it is good and going to get better? A rare occurrence admittedly but one which you will experience with the wonderful "Gorilla Manor". The Wolf has comprehensively captured in his excellent review the various elements of what makes this album special. Clearly there are references to the Fleet Foxes, indeed the warm cover version of Talking Heads "Warning Sign" displays the wonderful harmonies so beloved of our bearded Seattle chums. Local Natives are nevertheless not the "Fleet Foxes lite" an accusation which has been bandied around in some reviews. In fact there is so much diversity in this album that in large parts it is a genuinely intriguing and uncategorisable affair. Check out the joyous single "Camera Talk" which owes as much to the Beach Boys, Bens Fold five and even Vampire Weekend. "Shapeshiter" one of the albums highlights with its searing harmonies and its gradually building force packs a huge punch. A key feature of this song is the hyperactive drumming of Matt Frazier and (I don't believe I'm about to say this) the excellent lead vocalist Taylor Rice does sometimes sound like a much rockier version of Jon Anderson of Yes which is the strangest compliment I have ever paid.

Throughout the album has a feel of summer and the sort of effervescence in songs which end up swimming around the listener's head for weeks at a time and make you constantly revisit the album. The two most guilty culprits in this regard are "Wide Eyes" with its great guitar backdrop making it probably the most rock based song on the album but all the time those harmonies are a tight as Alastair Darlings recent budget. "Sun Hands" is the albums ultimate highlight. Its worth checking out on the net the reviews of this band at this years SXSW 2010 festival where for the second year in a row they again stole the show and it is with "Sun Hands" that they encore. It has that quality common to great songs of the duality of complexity and simplicity at the same time. Listen to it on headphones and the layers reveal themselves and Taylor Rice's vocal absolutely nail the song from the opening where he sings -

"I climbed to the top of a hill
But I had just missed the sun
And although the descending arc was gone
Left behind were the traces that always follow along"

For the other songs read the reviews by Wolf and Mr Chinaski where they capture the all round quality of this album. Its probably not perfect and both "Sticky Thread" and "Cubism Dream" don't really push many buttons for me. A small point not be dwelled upon since quite rightly this East L.A. quintet are generating huge interest and it is a credit to the UK listeners that the album was taken up here where they signed to Infectious and released Gorilla Manor a good four months before it appeared in their homeland. All in all "Gorilla Manor" is an album which will repay repeated listens with a series of rich songs and three part harmonies to die for.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Glorious Gorillas In Our Midst 20 Nov 2009
By The Wolf TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Abso-blinkin-lutely loving this every-which-way.
You're going to love it too. Promise.

As incandescent a bunch of songs as I've heard this year and
there are a whole healthy dozen of them to be getting on with.

Local Natives hail from Silverlake, California, U.S.A.

They are Taylor Rice (guitar/vocals), Kelcey Ayer (keyboards/vocals),
Ryan Hahn (guitar/vocals), Andy Hamm (bass) and Matt Frazier (drums)
and together they make a distinctive and beautiful sound.

This is tricky stuff to pin-down so I'll leave it for someone more
gifted in the realms of genre sub-divisions to fix this for us later.

What I found here transcends genre in so many ways.

It is BIG music. Heart-warming music. Enveloping and uplifting music.
The melodies are complex and absorbing; the singing fresh and vividly alive.
These young gentlemen are creating sounds of true substance!

You could plunge in anywhere really and be lifted up by the pure
energy and enthusiasm of their committed performances.

Let me tell you about a few of these wonderful compositions.

'Camera Talk' manages to combine a viscerally raw rhythm,
under-produced and untainted in the best possible way, with
an intoxicating melody and delicious vocal harmonies.
The high-flying violin lifts the energy straight through the roof.

The spirit of CSN&Y lives on in 'Cards and Quarters'.
Mr Frazier's drums hold down a strong but simple beat
around which the song unfolds in evermore complex layers.
The last chiming chord hangs in the air like the aftertaste
of a half-remembered dream.

There is a dream-like quality running through much of this album.

'Airplanes' is unquestionably one of the project's finest compositions.
Good-humoured and uplifting in equal measure, I found myself completely
(and willingly) swept away by the ensemble's prodigious musicality.

'Sun Hands' has so much passion it is at risk of spontaneously combusting
and 'World News' is chock-full of a jolly kind of goodness rarely captured
by any band in any time you might care to imagine. Joyful, rapturous stuff!

I'll shut up now !
It's good. It's very, very good ! It's the kind of music to make all of our
lives just a little bit richer and more bearable.

(Oh Heck! Sorry I just can't help it.....'Shape Shifter' made just about
every hair on my body - from nose to tail - stand to attention!)

I stumbled upon this truly inspiring little band entirely by accident.

Trust me on this one - it's glorious stuff !

Essential.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant album!
Such a great 'play it over and over and over again' album! Need extra copies for the office, the car and your friends!! Buy at least two!
Published 13 days ago by A. Ballantyne
5.0 out of 5 stars Local Natives Album
I love this album and very happy with my purchase :) I love all the songs and there is also a video of live jamming sessions. Even better (:
Published 1 month ago by MJones
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff
Great album, takes a few listens and you can hear some influences coming through, but nothing wrong with that if the point of reference is good.
Published 4 months ago by Mr R I Davidson
5.0 out of 5 stars best album 2010
For me this was by a whisker the best album of 2010. Mr Wolf as usual sums it up... GLORIOUS
Published 22 months ago by Mr. Paul Johnston
4.0 out of 5 stars a bit sub fleet foxes
but very strong songs and arrangements - they do some danged strange things with drums some times.... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2011 by Jon A. Crowcroft
2.0 out of 5 stars Comparison to Fleet Foxes?
Bought this on the strength of a couple of sites saying they have a similarity to The Fleet Foxes, so though I'd take a chance. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2011 by Blackarrow
5.0 out of 5 stars such a good cd
Saw them life in brighton, and they are soo much better live than what their cd produced, but its still amazing. Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2010 by Lynne
5.0 out of 5 stars This is music
I love this album. I guess they'll be criminally overlooked but I suppose that has its advantages. From start to finish, it's all killer stuff. Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2010 by The_Man_The_Myth
2.0 out of 5 stars Dull and Disappointing
I had never heard of the Local Natives until recently, when I watched a Youtube video of them doing a fantastic cover of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Cecelia'. Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2010 by C. P. Whiting
4.0 out of 5 stars Love this and they are even better live!!!
I was going to there gig at Shepard's Bush Empire so wanted to get a little more familiar with there songs. I love this album and they were even better live!!! Read more
Published on 8 July 2010 by emskil
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