“Wide Eyes” by Local Natives

"Wide Eyes" comes off Gorilla Manor, the debut album from Los Angeles indie rockers Local Natives, which Infectious put out in Britain on November 2, 2009, a few months before Frenchkiss brought it to America. The band paid for the record themselves and cut it with Raymond Richards at his Red Rockets Glare studio in West Los Angeles, co-producing with him, and took its title from the Orange County house the whole band lived in, where most of the songs were written.

The writing is credited to the band as a whole, and the vocals are a three-way affair between Taylor Rice, Ryan Hahn and Kelcey Ayer; Rice and Hahn play guitar, Ayer keyboards and percussion, Andy Hamm bass and Matthew Frazier drums. Hugo Nicolson mixed it.

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