Stream: Local Natives, ‘Past Lives’

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Local Natives (Photo by Renata Raks)
Local Natives (Photo by Renata Raks)

Local Natives’ starry-eyed, New Age-themed new single considers the notion of fate. Are we inextricably tied to our “Past Lives?” Not necessarily, says Taylor Rice. “The world is not static, it’s made new over and over again. But we tend to live the same patterns in a loop, loving the same way, wrestling the same demons, the same dynamics playing out around us again and again,” the singer-guitarist said in a press release announcing the new song. “Untangling every moment and decision that led us to where we are now can make fate feel concrete, inescapable. But our world is not fixed, it’s constantly reemerging, and we can change it into whatever we want.”

The cinematic tune is the first new music from the L.A. quintet — Rice along with Kelcey Ayer, Ryan Hahn, Matt Frazier and Nik Ewing — since they released their sophomore album “Hummingbird” in early 2013. No details on plans to release their third album yet, but we’ll have our eyes open for that inevitable recurring loop of music press releases.

||| Stream: “Past Lives”

||| Previously: Live at Way Over Yonder, live at the Greek, “You & I,” live at Coachella, “Heavy Feet,” “Breakers,” an interview conducted a long time ago in a past life.