An Interview with Local Natives

An Interview with Local Natives Ryan Hahn They just seem kind of surreal, I mean when we found out about the shows a few weeks months back its just a way how we ever thought-- Andy Hamm: I thought it was BS, it sold, like the first one sold out on my dads BS and they’re like, “Who knows, it’s true.” I’m Andy Ryan Hahn: I’m Ryan and we play the band Local Natives. We've come to find I think more than a lot of bands were really collaborative. You know it’s like almost a very democratic process we kind of draw ideas around the room, everyone put their say in and you know we really like the fact that every songs we write, you know every one everyone is happy because everyone’s put there you know put there their influence and their title on the songs and yes. Guerilla Manor was just all of us kind of living together and writing songs in the living room and kind of realizing how our band works and how you know what are strength are and yes, its kind of to realize that we’re a very collaborative band and very like communal effort. Andy Hamm It’s a song that’s on process were you know some either have a mean skeleton for the song and bring it and then we’ll flip it 20 times over a 100 times over or it will literary be somebody that just have that simple progression or even just a riff and then we’ll all sort of meet up and work and rework it so like in some point that everybody is really confident and they do without-- Ryan Hahn This is our first time doing an album you now like for us is just the way we knew how. It’s the only way we just did it, I mean it will be interesting to see what came of us in the studio kind of like behind the boards, likes figuring out this little gadgets and stuff. It’s like I said, it was just like a really natural experience, you know just acoustic guitars and around like the piano in the living room kind of that. Andy Hamm: It was like a Ryan said, it was just a new band really trying out different sounds and getting into a point where everybody felt comfortable with it and it wasn’t until you know after the fact that we have a lot people on the outside who you know we are first showing the songs to it and they’re like, “I hear you don’t.” The drums and the harmonies are a lot and that was something that we play black like well that is something that we do and you know a lot of our songs is, you know come of kind straight a lot on the vocal parts and then we do spend a lot times especially with Chelsea playing a drum up in front, we try a lot of different rhythms within the songs. I think we just came from I don’t know probably that we need to do we needed art work and were very particular about what we like and so we would always be looking for things outside of ourselves and it always came back that were like we just should do of within band. And sort of this attitude that we carry with and it seems like any time we try to tackle something and it ends up coming back where it comes from within the band and yeah I really like that is like more work and a bit more trying at times but it the end everybody much more exciting about it. Ryan Hahn: I mean I help its probably a bit more energetic than the record I think that just comes actually you know live that we just we play with the bit more energy and Andy Hamm It’s louder Andy Hamm I think it’s a different experience I would help for everybody you know each line different theirs you know like were playing like a hole on the wall you know where the ceiling is like just above my head and theirs like you know 75 people came in there but a lot waving like it was you know that felt huge or that was awesome everybody was singing along and then sometimes our source will play a really big place. It would be like, “Oh, you felt a little dead” or so it’s really a show by show and the crowd in the room and every thing coming together. I hope that you walk away you know, not only enjoying the music by getting a different experience from the record in a good way you now sort of each other. I really like going you know I like the record for this reason but I also like the bands live shows for different reasons. Ryan Hahn What you cool not like the album is now for really bit like you know we can have like worst show realize but I can Andy Hamm Kind of terrible man but then you wake up and some says did you play like whatever song. Its like fear is on I have such a great time and had so much fun like to me last. Ask really, really cool to hear that makes everything to hear. Ryan Hahn Hi were Local Natives check us are show at the gallery ballroom on baeble.