''Sunlit Youth'' is the third studio album by American indie rock band
Local Natives
Local Natives is an American indie rock band based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The band consists of Taylor Rice (vocals, guitar), Kelcey Ayer (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Ryan Hahn (guitar, backing vocals), ...
, released on September 9, 2016 with
Loma Vista Recordings
Loma Vista Recordings is a record label founded by Tom Whalley, former chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records and Executive of A&R at Interscope Records. The label was initially a joint venture with Republic Records and is based in Beverly Hi ...
.
Background
''Sunlit Youth'' was recorded between 2014 and 2016 in
Thailand
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,
Malaysia
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,
Nicaragua
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,
Hawaii
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, and
Ojai, California.
Release
The album was preceded by the singles "
Past Lives
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," "Villainy," "Fountain of Youth," and "Coins".
Before its release, "Past Lives" was featured in the episode "7th" from the first season of the Netflix series ''
Flaked
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'', which was released on March 11, 2016.
Goofs
The album has a noticeable misprint of the song "Psycho Lovers" (track #10), which on the CD is labeled as "Pyscho Lovers".
Critical reception
''Sunlit Youth'' received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics. At
Metacritic
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, which assigns a
normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an
average
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score of 75, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Sunlit Youth''.
;Local Natives
* Taylor Rice – performer
* Kelcey Ayer – performer
* Ryan Hahn – performer
* Matt Frazier – performer
* Nik Ewing – performer
;Additional personnel
* Local Natives – production
* Brian Joseph – production
(1-3, 5–8, 10, 12), recording
(1-7, 10-12)
* Rob Kirwan – production
(4), recording
(4, 8)
* Catherine Marks – production
(5), recording
(5)
*
Little Dragon
Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1996. The band consists of Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion), Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Wallin (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards).
Little Dragon' ...
– production
(6)
*
Ryan Hahn – production
(6, 9), recording
(6, 9)
*
Lars Stalfors
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– production
(10), recording
(10)
* Michael Harris – recording
(1-4, 7-9)
* Shawn Everett – recording
(1-3, 7, 10, 11), mixing
(11)
* Dave Gaumé – recording
(2, 8, 12)
* Rouble Kapoor – recording
(12)
* Craig Silvey – mixing
(1-5, 7, 8, 10, 12)
* Eduardo de la Paz – mixing
(6, 9)
*
Bob Ludwig – mastering
* Brian Roettinger – art direction, photography
* Evan McQuaid – photography
* Taylor Giali – design assistance
* Ryan Whalley – artists and repertoire (A&R)
* Phil Costello – artist management
Charts
References
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2016 albums
Local Natives albums
Loma Vista Recordings albums
Albums recorded at Electro-Vox Recording Studios