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.

'Save me, from the prime of my life,' vocalist Taylor Rice sang on the chorus, but with the momentum these indie rockers have going, it seems they don’t need saving.

It's a call to cast aside patterns and embrace instability, and so "Past Lives" is a fitting title for Local Natives' reintroduction—if it makes the memory of 2013's solemn, Aaron Dessner-produced weeper Hummingbird sound remote, 2010 seems like a different lifetime altogether.

"[5] In describing the song, Michelle Geslani of Consequence of Sound said, "Effervescent, busy percussion and lush harmonies highlight the track, with Local Natives operating in their comfort zone but pushing for something a little deeper.

"Save me from the prime of my life," they plead, before nifty guitar work and lustrous keys cut in around the 2:40 mark.