We were lucky to catch up with Native World recently and have shared our conversation below.

Native World, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Do you feel you or your work has ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized? If so, tell us the story and how/why it happened and if there are any interesting learnings or insights you took from the experience?

Being misunderstood has been a struggle for our band for a while. We’re fortunate to be around a pretty thriving local music scene, but we don’t match the popular genre. As much as we love being able to play shows, sometimes we’re the “black sheep” of the lineup.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Native World is a four-piece band living in Indianapolis. Joining forces from a collection of musical backgrounds, their style reflects their love for jrock, indie pop, and alternative rock influences. After adding a new vocalist, the band spent time honing their sound for their second EP release “Blossom”. Instead of taking a pause during the pandemic, the band also created “quarantine sessions” – snippets of other demos- on their social media. This sparked the first single off of the EP, “Celeste”.

Wanting to break free from the typical hardcore/alt sound, the band’s root inspiration came from their jrock influence, which in turn opened up space to play with pop elements. The common theme sonically and lyrically throughout “Blossom” is growth, and the music video for “Celeste” captures the dreamy-esque feeling of the five song tracklist.
The root inspiration came from their jrock influence, which in turn opened up more room to play with dancey, pop elements. The chemistry between each member is beneficial to the writing process- working collaboratively, fine tuning the composition, and not being afraid to do things differently is what makes Native World stand out.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

More people are creative- they just don’t have the freedom to do so. Capitalism leaves no room to be openly, wholeheartedly creative when you’re a cog in a machine. There’s a pressure to constantly “grind” or turn any kind of habit into some kind of profitable huddle. Our society breeds imposter syndrome in this way.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

We just want to make music that we love. Our mission is to push ourselves to be the best version of Native World as possible. We all set personal goals as musicians- learning new techniques, developing different skills, etc.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @nativeworldband
• Twitter: @nativeworldband