![]() ![]() Praying the next one is a les paul driven rock album and not a Styx influenced thing. Sorry guys but this album is just not for me, I have tried and tried but I cannot find one song i like. I need some distortion and the feel of indie rock back here and maybe I have just to a stage where the band is going in a direction I cannot follow. I feel the loss of driven guitar layers behind MC strong rhythm is and DC Bass is too low in the mix. Maybe the band have grown up and are all happy and stuff, but I wish they turned the bass up and got rid of the synth, piano stuff. ![]() Now this album.I could not connect with it, I couldn't understand how you can go from "When I Was Young" (stars are indifferent to astrology) an amazing song to 'so much love' which is just a boring, rotational song. The band have evolved and to some extent kept their rock indie roots (Lucky, Stars are indifferent to astrology) but I saw slowly with 'you know who you are' things were going a bit down hill. I cannot understand how any fans of the band like this album. Never Not Together by Nada Surf, released 07 February 2020 1. I cannot understand how I have been a fan of this band for so long!!!! I remember queuing outside my local record shop for High/low (1996!!). "I love that part.I have been a fan of this band for so long!!!! I remember queuing outside my local record shop for High/low (1996!!). I like the 'now we're back' part," he smiles. "We shot up, we disappeared and now we're back. "I just like a good meal regularly – three square meals a day, you know," he says. "Until now, it's always been feast or famine for us, but I never wanted a feast," explains Caws. The new LP may never be as popular as "Popular", but the band are happy with their level of success. And although it was recognised by the audience and went down well, it was in no way the set's biggest crowd-pleaser. In Niort's spartan Espace Culturel, the band actually played "that" song – as they still do sometimes. ![]() Getting to the third album and having it appreciated in its own right took such weight off my shoulders," says Caws."It's not about 'Popular' any more," he says, relieved. "Until this record came out, 'Popular' was an albatross round our necks. But, most importantly, with the well-received release of Let Go, like their Heavenly labelmates the mood-rockers Doves (who were forced to change their name from Sub Sub to flee the consequences of their solitary 1993 dance hit), Nada Surf have been reinvented. The band's decision to work with only people they liked – their "no wankers" policy – landed them deals with sympathetic indie labels. Let Go is a beautiful album that steers clear of melodrama and instead, with hushed reassurance, invites you to do as the title suggests. "Do I speak or hold you tight? The words were voted out by a landslide," he sings on "No Quick Fix", while on the desolate album-closer, "Paper Boats", he pleads desperately, "I need something more from you." Coupled with the band's new semi-acoustic sound, his words become anguished, chilling half-hopes, warmed only by the music's soft, Big Star glow and surging Brian Wilson harmonies. The songs are soul-tearing poems, Caws's unadorned, melancholy voice expressing the most simple of human wants. But far from being a clichéd break-up album, it plunges deep into the aching, bitter-sweet purgatory of impossible love. Let Go, says Caws, was inspired by "relationship-y things" (another consequence of living a "normal" life). Here, touring American guitar bands are really not a regular thing and excitement buzzes through the crowd. Tonight's concert is held at the town's multi-purpose arts centre, Espace Culturel – part of a supermarket chain, set in an industrial estate outside the centre. Overrun by white-collar insurance executives, it's a place the local sound engineer describes as "sad". This is Niort, a provincial French town 250 miles from Paris. Inside the auditorium, the luminous green nodules glow like tiny radioactive mushrooms in punters' ears. Nada Surf perform the Pixies' Where Is My MindVideo created by Kevin MoseleyiTunes. It matters little that tonight's headliners – the New York trio Nada Surf – are hardly Metallica and at their loudest play harmony-drenched power-pop. In the interests of aural safety, they are handing out ear plugs. ![]() Beyond a makeshift bar (two barrels and a plank), two security men stand guard by the inner doors of the venue. ![]()
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