Gorilla Manor by Local Natives

Gorilla Manor, the debut album from Local Natives, came out in Britain on Infectious on November 2, 2009, with Frenchkiss following in the States in February 2010. The band, who had been calling themselves Cavil at Rest until 2008, named it after the Orange County house they all shared and where most of the songs were written, a place Ryan Hahn remembered as a chaotic mess, full of friends banging on guitars and a thrift-store piano.

They paid for it themselves and made it with Raymond Richards at his Red Rockets Glare studio in West Los Angeles, producing it together with him. The sound is all stacked harmonies, skittering drums and bright, chiming guitars, with Kelcey Ayer, Taylor Rice and Hahn swapping lead vocals over Andy Hamm's bass and Matthew Frazier's drums. "Airplanes" and "Wide Eyes" took it onto the countdowns, and good reviews and a lot of touring carried it the rest of the way.

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