Violet Street by Local Natives

I never really heard of this group before, but listening to their album I could see that they have lots of potential. The album is called “Violet Street” and the group is called Local Natives. At first, I thought this was an indie rock group that made dull, uncreative music, but listening to this album I thought it was more personal and timeless. 
So, the Local Natives are an indie rock band that is located in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, coming together to form a group after college. They first hit the scene with their debut album Gorilla Manor which was released in 2009 in the UK and 2010 in the US. Soon afterwards they started touring and created more albums. Hummingbird and Sunlit Youth were the albums that they released. Kelcey and Nik who are some of the members of the band also released albums: Tasha Sits Close to the Piano and Pacific Ocean Blue, respectively. The development of this group over years and years shows their long-term success. The direct lyricism and mindset of Violet Street and many of their albums show a different type of theme of transitioning from after college to adult grief to getting on with the rest of their lives. 
Violet Street focuses on relationships. They also have songs that refer to actual places, for instance, "Garden of Elysian" refers to drinking cheap vodka despite the echoes of the Dodger Stadium. Or in "When Am I Gonna Lose You", Taylor Rice, the main vocalist, traces the California coast line to Big Sur. Or Whilshire Boulevard is reimagined for a wasteland in “Megatron Mile.” The music remains approachable and optimistic despite how everything is crumbling around them. And Hummingbird has the same characteristics that are on this album in terms of organic experimentalism. The music itself sounds like it can be in the league of Beck, Haim, or Cage the Elephant. My favorite track is “Megatron Mile” because even though it’s talks about a grim reality, the song sounds like a backyard party at Ground Zero using Earth, Wind, and Fire style vocals. The interesting thing is that it was created by feeding loops to the mixing console. “Golf Shores” had blaring synthesizer sounds, but it was actually a guitar run through fuzz pedals. The album itself was a run through with experimental sounds which can easily set it apart from any other indie rock album, but it wasn’t revolutionary like their first album Gorilla Manor.