Local Natives announced the release of their third album Sunlit Youth, out 9 September on Infectious Music / Loma Vista Recordings. 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 (“people lost their shit” – VICE), Local Natives today announce a full world tour for the autumn, including six shows in the UK in November.

“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.
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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 UK, Europe and the US. Tickets for the new shows go on sale at 9am Friday 10 June. Tickets to selected shows include a download of Sunlit Youth; see localnatives.com for participating dates and details.