Press:

“Wrestling Moves was the decade's siren for me. The album sounds like the call to arms to begin a breakout year of young bands, vans and tourlife Tumblr pages. Of all the great records from all the great blossoming labels (read: close communities), Native nailed it with this release. The songs are not only ordered well in the album's flow - "Backseat Crew" being one of the best openers of the year bookended with the closing title track - they're just passionately executed in both their bite and pedal play.The common elements and timbre that ride throughout the record makes it a pretty even ground with little to no mood swings complicating the pick-up on the instrumental techniques and counterpoint to each other. With Daughters, These Arms are Snakes and Botch gone - it's time to welcome one of the next leaders as they help fly a new flag proudly. Silly kids, stop covering up your mediocre talents with make-up, and write something with some substance and passion again.”
Adam Pfleider - AbsolutePunk Staff -2010 Top Album Lists #1

“Wrestling Moves is just flat-out intriguing. Shouted vocals meet noodling and often catchy guitar work to spawn one of the wildest (and yet somehow at the same time, the tamest) albums of twentyten. Oh, can't forget to mention the slick drum patterns. Is it too soon to call this post-hardcore revival? Whatever the genre, Wrestling Moves is good, and that's all that really matters anyway.”
Matthew Tsai - AbsolutePunk Staff - Top 10 Album Picks 2010 #9

“This full-length debut follows their well-received EP We Delete; Erase and lives up to the band’s hype, buzzing with jolts of electric adrenaline from start to finish.”
Wrestling Moves Review - Short And Sweet NYC

“The buzzing drone and frenetic drums, not to mention their total rocking out onstage, won me over almost instantly. Shouty vocals and a good moustache will get my every time. There’s something rather special about their towering soundscapes of glorious doom. It’s a winning mix of snarling shouts, angular guitars, and hellaciously hellion drums. Their songs were somewhat shambolic, somewhat chaotic, and they were fantastic.”
Live Review Black Cat /DC - Les Enfants Terribles

“Native plays gritty, churning post-hardcore that bursts forward on throbbing rhythms and aggressive guitar lines and sounds like 13 Songs-era Fugazi mixed with Cobra Kai.”
Wrestling Moves Review - Short And Sweet NYC

“All it takes is one listen to "Ponyboy" by these young, promising Indiana post-hardcore rockers to see what they're all about. At The Drive-In's screaming vocal delivery and clean, unconventional guitar melodies brought to you by Fugazi provide Native's backbone. ”
Show Feature - The Herald Sun

“These young guys can play their asses off, and they did just that, and with Native we have the start to a very bright and promising career.”
SXSW Live Review 2010 - Exploding In Sound

“it’s invigorating to come across a new act that actually follows the example of Dischord Records groups like Fugazi and Hoover. Sure, Native may employ screamed vocals (not unlike those of At The Drive-In’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala) over their angular musical mix, yet to brand them screamo would be downright insulting given the high quality of tracks like “Backseat Crew” and “Shirts And Skins.””
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Metal Sucks

“The instrumental “Mason Jars” and the mostly-instrumental “Marco Polo” are so solid that it’s easy to imagine Native putting out an album of instrumental songs that would stand up on its own.”
Wrestling Moves Review - Short And Sweet NYC

“I actually like Native live even more than on record. They’re a lot more raw, a lot more unhinged. My one complaint about their set was that it wasn’t long enough, and was over way too soon. I could have listened to their chunky, thunderous noise for hours.”
Live Review Black Cat /DC - Les Enfants Terribles

“Wrestling Moves is a record that does indeed move. Despite its musical heaviness, it floats with a degree of ease that will surprise many listeners.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Blogcritics

“Northwest, Indiana’s prodigal sons Native followed on the inside stage, showcasing the many reasons the band were added to the triumphant roster at Sargent House. The band’s music is a refreshing blast of post-punk energy, from four guys that I highly doubt are of legal drinking age yet. Their set was full of aggression, angular riffs and rhythms, and intense screamed vocal performance.”
SXSW Live Review 2010 - Exploding In Sound

“A wall of sound knocked me off my feet as this post hardcore group reminisced me of my high school days. I used to enjoy hardcore music when I was younger but Native goes above and beyond this style I had once known. Explosive riffs, heavy rhythmic breaks and a fantastic light show only added to their performance. I was out of breath by the time they finished”
SXSW Show Review - The University Star

“There’s blistering sincerity in every note and Native’s pursuit of what’s real infuses every passage with a profound sense of innocence. Even as Markos blurts those odd lyrics on “Backseat Crew,” you can tell he means it. Really.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Blogcritics

“Comparisons to Jawbox and the post-hardcore of the 90s are bound to happen, but Native manages to skirt these while still living up to the legacy of their genre.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Blogcritics

“They might be young, but these Indiana punks have forged something memorable and unique with their debut full-length, Wrestling Moves.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Exclaim Canada

“Clearly growing up under the influence of classic post-punk bands like Fugazi and Shellac, Native have succeeded in forging something original from the discordant madness of those bands and the catchy, intricate guitar interplay of '90s Midwest staples like Braid and American Football.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Exclaim Canada

“Native are gonna find their place in your heart. And if you don't have a heart, they're gonna build it for you.”
Music Is Amazing

“Native play a style that so many bands have been trying to achieve, but haven't quite made yet. It's a beautifully crafted genetic hybrid of math rock, post-hardcore and post-punk that's totally danceable yet completely melodic at the same time.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Teenage Hangover

“'Wrestling moves' is more than a simple indie album. It's a mix of indie with math rock, post-hardcore and progressive rock.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Daily Music Reviews

“From the start of the album to the end, Native pushes themselves in new directions with each song.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Sputnik Music

“The debut album on Sargent House is an amazing follow-up to We Delete; Erase EP from 2008. An absolutely matured band following its very own sound”
Music Is Amazing

“out of every album I’ve heard this year, nothing has been more unique, expansive, or passionate than Wrestling Moves.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Under The Gun

“Anyone who has listened to We Delete; Erase will immediately hear the transformation within the band. Native is still Native, but the progression here is a massive one.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Sputnik Music

“Can you imagine Minus The Bear copulating with Cap'n Jazz? No? Then listen to Native and you'll have an idea.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Daily Music Reviews

“For an overactive band like Native to make us sit and chew for 3+ minutes, and for it to be a success, is almost unthinkable.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Absolute Punk

“Does Wrestling Moves live up to the hype and cement Native as the next big thing for the Sargent House label? In short: Abso-***in'-lutely.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Sputnik Music

“It’s beautiful and angst laden all at once and that’s what makes it great. Somehow there’s a balance that works so well you’d think they’d been in the scene for over a decade.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Under The Gun

“Perhaps it's the group's intelligent guitar work, which recalls the geometric riffs of Jawbox and Faraquet- Or maybe it's the fact that the vocalist's yelps sound more like a pissed Ian MacKaye than a Warped Tour screamo outfit.”
Ryan Wasoba - Riverfront Times

“Native sounds like Minus the Bear being strangled by These Arms Are Snakes.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Sputnik Music

“Native try a foreign thing or two on Wrestling Moves. And by god, or maybe by Fender(?), they all work.”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Absolute Punk

“To me, this is creativity incarnate. I think it goes without saying that their new record is highly, highly anticipated.”
Absolute Punk - EP CD Review

“It lands somewhere between a pissed off Minus the Bear and a caged up Botch”
Surfing Magzine Feature

“something captivating about them both live and on record as they seem to waste not a second of time their given to transport listeners from wherever they are to the universe of Native. It’s a land rich with bass and drum lines and littered with melodic guitar work”
Wrestling Moves CD Review - Under The Gun

“There's something about the age-to-talent ratio that makes the post-punk of the barely legal Indiana quartet Native both impressive and genuine.”
Ryan Wasoba - Riverfront Times

“This foursome mix dance worthy bass lines with spastic guitar work and lyrics that seep into your bloodstream and become engrained in your subconscious.”
Under The Gun

“While most of their contemporaries are focused on pop offshoots, atmospheric Indiana indie-rockers Native have more in common with Minus The Bear than Motion City Soundtrack.”
Alternative Press

“Being this EP is close to a year old and about to enter its fourth pressing or so, I imagine we might get something new from the band later this year. If We Delete; Erase is any indication, it's something to look forward to”
Punknews.org

“The brand-new four piece, Native, is making noise even before their first full-length. Their self-released debut EP, We Delete; Erase, has been recently unleashed online, and their fresh, confident sound is filling their listeners with hope for some great things to come.”
CMJ

“They play with an equal amount of young skill and an elderly patience for building songs into longer instrumental dramas, and though their yelling lyrics can seem like play at times, there’s also a pure energetic, passionate statement in there”
Pinnacle Magazine

“The combination of semi-abrasive vocals and squealing guitar fuzz on opener "Alpacastan" sound like the perfect hybrid of These Arms Are Snakes and a more restrained Tera Melos”
Punknews.org

“ For a band just a little more than a year old, Native play with the confidence and prowess of a group of lifers.”
Tim Karan - Alternative Press

“This foursome mix dance worthy bass lines with spastic guitar work and lyrics that seep into your bloodstream and become engrained in your subconscious. ”
Under The Gun

“Just when I feel myself reaching that point where everything is beginning to sound a bit stale, a band like Native comes along and knocks me out. There is definitely nothing boring or generic about this Indiana band.”
Will - Sound As Language