Nada Surf
You Know Who You Are
Barsuk
2016
Rating: 7.5 radio kidnappers out of 10
The thing with Nada Surf
is that even when you hear a new song by them for the first time, it
already feels like music that has been in your life for a long time. In
particular, you could fully convince me that "Cold to See Clear" and
"Rushing" were on other albums of theirs and I had just forgotten about
it. I suppose some could read that as the band being complacent and not
growing, but when you write and perform pop songs as well as these guys
do...well, I'm certainly glad they haven't changed anything and their
sound is so consistently familiar. Leave the "growing" to bands that
still have shit to sort out - Nada Surf figured this all out quite a
while back.
As an aside, it still cracks me
up to think of these guys as "one hit wonders," which I'm sure is how a
lot of people still remember them (ditto for another amazing band that
was more than that moniker, Superdrag). I'm sure the band is well over
it by now, but they must get the occasional drunken idiot at a gig who
only wants to hear "Popular."
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