Sunlit Youth (studio album) by Local Natives

Sunlit Youth by Local Natives
Year: 2016
Release date: 2016-09-09
Overall rank: 18,124th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 31 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2016 (418th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (4,064th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,124th)
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Local Natives bestography

Sunlit Youth is ranked 3rd best out of 5 albums by Local Natives on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Local Natives is Gorilla Manor which is ranked number 3762 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 385.

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 31 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.1/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.8.

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I've always thought this was one of their best (if not the best) albums they did, even when I first heard it on release day in 2016. I think the consensus is that some of their fans didn't like the approach they took on this album, and non-fans just view the songs as fairly average, but to me I love a lot of this. The production is really great, the songwriting and energy are also infectious, and I have no real complaints. The first half is significantly stronger (which is a trend they have on each of their albums), but nothing here is "bad" to my ears, and I really enjoyed the direction this album took - so much so that I ended up seeing them live twice in 2017. Maybe I'm not critical enough on things I enjoy, but I tend to enjoy quite a few albums from this era that had some more electronic elements that some fans didn't seem to enjoy as much (Tame Impala's Currents comes to mind for example). I say if the music sounds good to you and is enjoyable, who cares? Shifts in musical direction can keep things interesting!

This is right up there on my personal list of underrated gems that deserve more attention. Keep in mind it's not a life changing masterpiece. It's still around an 8/10 (and maybe it can just barely push to a 9/10 when you find yourself listening to this in the exact perfect mood for the music to have maximum impact), but it is very enjoyable and probably deserves to be at least in the top 100 albums for this year, if not top 50. Those are my thoughts at least.
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