Los Angeles, CA – (July 8, 2016) – Local Natives today announce the release of their third album Sunlit Youth, out September 9 on Loma Vista Recordings / Infectious Music. The LA five-piece broke a year of silence with a pop up show in San Francisco in April, and the surprise release of their first new track in three years, Past Lives. Following further west coast pop up shows in San Diego and the band’s hometown of Los Angeles (“people lost their shit” – VICE), Local Natives today announce a full world tour slated for this Fall.

Local Natives premiered the album’s opening track, Villainy, as a World Record on Zane Lowe’s Beats1 show yesterday and today showcase a visual for the song that is as much a love letter to their hometown as it is an exuberant summation of feeling within the song. The clip was directed by Andrew Droz Palermo with art direction from Brian Roettinger.

Watch Villainy: http://found.ee/LN_Villain

“A lot of the excitement in making this new album came from discovering how to make songs in different ways,” Ryan Hahn says. “You start thinking, ‘What do I want to hear?’ Forget about what we’ve done and what people expect. This is a song that I would want to hear. Lyrically, Villainy is about realising that you have the ability to change your situation, that you can start again everyday. We applied that to how we made music this time around. We wanted all the new songs to have a different energy, to challenge ourselves to do something different each time.”
Sunlit Youth tracklist
1. Villainy
2. Past Lives
3. Dark Days
4. Fountain Of Youth
5. Masters
6. Jellyfish
7. Coins
8. Mother Emanuel
9. Ellie Alice
10. Psycho Lovers
11. Everything All At Once
12. Sea Of Years

Sunlit Youth caps a trilogy of albums for Local Natives, which began with their 2010 breakout Gorilla Manor, followed by 2013’s Hummingbird, which earned worldwide acclaim and opened at #12 on the Billboard 200. Together, the two albums have sold over 300,000 copies worldwide.

Local Natives will tour extensively worldwide in support of Sunlit Youth, including select summer festivals and an autumn tour announced today and taking in the US, UK, and Europe. Tickets for the new shows go on sale: http://found.ee/LocalNatives_Tour Tickets to selected shows include a download of Sunlit Youth; see localnatives.com for participating dates and details.

Local Natives 2016 Tour Dates:

07/16/16 – Louisville, KY – Forecastle Festival
07/31/16 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza

08/19/16 – Hasselt – Pukkelpop

08/20/16 – Eskilstuna – Gainesville

08/21/16 – Biddinghuizen – Lowlands

08/22/16 – Winterthur – Musikfestwochen

08/24/16 – Paris – La Boule Noire

08/26/16 – Cologne – c/o pop Festival

08/28/16 – Turin – Todays Festival

08/29/16 – Ljubljana – Kino Siska

09/02/16 – San Sebastian – Kutxa Kultur Festival

09/03/16 – Dorset – End of the Road Festival

09/04/16 – Dublin – Electric Picnic
09/14/16 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee Theatre
09/15/16 – San Diego, CA – The North Park Theatre
09/16/16 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
09/17/16 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
09/19/16 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
09/20/16 – Seattle, WA – The Moore Theatre
09/22/16 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
09/23/16 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
09/24/16 – Kansas City, MO – CrossroadsKC
09/27/16 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
09/28/16 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
09/30/16 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
10/02/16 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/05/16 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
10/07/16 – New Orleans, LA – Civic Theatre
10/09/16 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/11/16 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City Birmingham
10/12/16 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
10/14/16 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
10/15/16 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
10/16/16 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club
10/17/16 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club
10/19/16 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
10/21/16 – Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
10/22/16 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
10/25/16 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
10/26/16 – New York, NY – Terminal 5

11/01/16 – Oxford – Academy 1

11/02/16 – London – Koko

11/04/16 – Bristol – Motion

11/06/16 – Glasgow – QMU

11/07/16 – Leeds – Stylus

11/08/16 – Manchester – Albert Hall

11/10/16 – Paris – Trianon

11/11/16 – Zurich – Rote Fabrik

11/12/16 – Brussels – Cirque Royal

11/13/16 – Amsterdam – Paradiso

11/15/16 – Milan – Magnolia

11/16/16 – Hamburg – Uebel & Gefaehrlich

11/17/16 – Berlin – Bi Nuu

11/19/16 – Stockholm – Debaser Medis

11/20/16 – Oslo – Rockfeller

11/21/16 – Gothenburg – Pustervik

11/22/16 – Copenhagen – Vega Main Hall

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