Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Native sophomore album out today, tour with O'Brother continues throughout the U.S.


Northwest Indiana's Native release their sophomore album Orthodox today, while currently on tour throughout the U.S. with O'Brother. See complete dates below. The entire album is currently available to stream courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan HERE. (Soundcloud link HERE.)

Check out live video of the band playing "Kissing Bridge" in Paris, from their recent European headlining tour. Watch video HERE.

In just a handful of years, Native have quietly built themselves a large word-of-mouth following in the underground as an incendiary live act. The iconoclast group's impeccable musicianship, ominous chords, apocalyptic vocals and innovative rhythms hit with an intensity that can only be described as akin to a white-knuckle thrill ride. 

There's as much suffocating darkness as there is thoughtful focus to Native's intricate song structures and pensive lyrics. There's a dark foreboding in the guitar lines simultaneously pushing and pulling, the whole band embracing and tearing apart musical convention with the unpredictability of a protest gone awry. 

Orthodox was recorded by Greg Norman (Russian Circles, Pelican) in Tolono, IL and in Chicago throughout 2012 and 2013. The album's taut 8 songs were eventually chosen out of nearly 20 tracks written over a grueling couple of years of writing and reworking ideas in near seclusion. Native's critically-acclaimed 2010 debut full length Wrestling Moves was also issued by Sargent House. The band's self-released EP We Delete: Erase in 2008 got the attention of Sargent House, who then signed the band to management and label. 

Orthodox is available everywhere on LP, CD and download via Sargent House on August 20th, 2013. 

NATIVE - LIVE 2013
Aug 20th, 2013 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock *
Aug 21st, 2013 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues 5th Avenue *
Aug 22nd, 2013 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room *
Aug 23rd, 2013 - Canoga Park, CA @ Cobalt Cafe *
Aug 24th, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of The Hill *
Aug 26th, 2013 - Portland, OR @ Backspace *
Aug 27th, 2013 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret *
Aug 28th, 2013 - Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey *
Aug 29th, 2013 - Boise, ID @ The Crux
Aug 30th, 2013 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court *
Aug 31st, 2013 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive *
Sept 1st, 2013 - Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar *
Sept 3rd, 2013 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry *
Sept 4th, 2013 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews *
Sept 5th, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge *
Sept 6th, 2013 - Akron, OH @ Musica *
Sept 7th, 2013 - Howell, MI @ Pike Room @ The Crofoot *
Sept 8th, 2013 - Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck Bar *
Sept 10th, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE *
Sept 11th, 2013 - Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon *
Sept 12th, 2013 - New York, NY @ Santos Party House *
Sept 13th, 2013 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *
Sept 14th, 2013 - Hamden, CT @ The Space *
Sept 15th, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary *
Sept 17th, 2013 - Washington, DC @ The Rock And Roll Hotel *
Sept 18th, 2013 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 *
Sept 19th, 2013 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter
Sept 20th, 2013 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement *
Sept 21st, 2013 - Nashville, TN @ The End *
Sept 22nd, 2013 - Charlotte, NC @ Casbah @ Tremont Music Hall *

* w/ O'Brother

Artist: Native
Album: Orthodox
Label: Sargent House
Release Date: August 20, 2013

01. Word City
02. Monday Night
03. Brass
04. Fundraiser
05. Coin Toss (STREAM)
06. Books On Tape
07. Kissing Bridge (STREAM)
08. Sixty Seven


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