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Jun 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Local Natives

Local Natives have officially announced their new album, Sunlit Youth, and shared a lyric video for single “Villainy.” They have also announced some tour dates. Sunlit Youth is due out September 9 via Loma Vista and Infectious Music. Below are the lyric video, tracklist, tour dates, and album cover.

It’s been three years since Local Natives released their last album, 2013’s sophomore effort Hummingbird. But back in April the Los Angeles band shared a brand new song, the driving, anthemic, and festival-ready “Past Lives.” Yesterday, another new song, “Villainy,” was premiered by Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 radio show on Apple Music.

Local Natives’ Ryan Hahn commented on the album in a press release: “A lot of the excitement in making this new album came from discovering how to make songs in different ways. 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 realizing 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

Local Natives 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