Rising New York-based indie outfit Native Sun — Colombian-born Danny Gomez (vocals, guitar). Justin Barry (bass, vocals), Jack Hiltabidle (guitar) and Argentine-born Nicolas Espinosa (drums) — have been celebrated for a visceral, untamed live show and for Gomez’s sociopolitically-charged lyrics that confront reality head on, channeling disillusionment into action while lovingly documenting the lives of society’s misfits and marginalized.
Over the past couple of years, the band has received coverage from both sides of the pond, including BrooklynVegan, DIY Magazine, Dork Magazine, Flood Magazine, NYLON, Paste Magazine and Rolling Stone. Adding to a growing profile, the rising quartet has played alongside the likes of A Place To Bury Strangers, Geese, Indigo de Souza and Nation of Language, among a growing list of acclaimed acts.
The New York-based quartet recently signed to NYC-based TODO, who will be releasing their highly-anticipated, full-length debut, which is slated for release later this year. in the meantime, their debut album’s first official single, the Jonathan Schenke-produced “I Need Nothing” is a swaggering, hook-driven, Stone Roses and Happy Mondays-like tune, anchored around a hypnotic, stoner-like groove, distortion and feedback-drenched guitars and passed out drum patterns that serves as a lush bed for Gomez’s insouciant and defiant delivery.
Lyrically, the song expresses a yearning desire for liberation and detachment from the chaos and bullshit of the surrounding modern world while reclaiming your time and peace. If things have been weighing you down lately, this song’s for you.
“‘I Need Nothing’ is our response to the chaos of a world in crisis – where every day we’re inundated with noise, distraction, and a kind of manufactured anxiety designed to keep us disengaged,” the band explains. “It taps into a collective exhaustion – being bombarded by political dysfunction, performative media, and the hyperreality of late-stage capitalism. But the song isn’t about apathy; it’s about stepping back to reclaim space, to think clearly, and to act with intent. It’s a defiant refusal to be consumed by a broken system—survival and self-liberation through clarity and detachment.”
Directed and filmed by Tim Nagle and Conor Cunningham, the accompanying video for “I Need Nothing” is shot on 8mm film and features the band performing the song in a studio, complete with fittingly hallucinogenic effects that sort of mimic a psilocybin trip.