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CD + DVD. Triple j 'album of the week' featured band Local Natives make soaring, sky-scraping harmonies, dreamy orchestral melodies, and throbbing tribal beats that bash their way into your soul. Drawing a line from the vocal styling's of Crosby Stills Nash & young and the zombies through the more esoteric edges of post-punk and afro-beat, this California five piece have communally crafted a brand of indie rock all their own. One of sxsw 2009's biggest success stories, Local Natives drove for two days to get from Los Angeles to Austin in order to play nine spectacular shows that saw them sprinting, instruments in hand, from one gig to the next. Their hectic schedule paid off as Local Natives left Austin with the attention of the world-wide music industry. Based in the silver lake area of Los Angeles, three of the five-piece originally hail from orange county. The self-funded 'gorilla manor' was recorded by Raymond Richards in west Los Angeles.