★★★★★
Fans of 2005?s The Weight is a Gift, which was said to be as perfect as indie rock gets, will quickly warm up to Nada Surf's new one, Lucky. For 12 years, the New York trio-Matthew Caws (vocals), Daniel Lorca (bass) and Ira Elliot (drums)-has reflected on love and loss from an angsty teenagers'-eye view...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Nada Surf, otherwise known as the band whose track made us cry when Anna left The O.C, returned earlier this year with their latest album The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronony. With a recent Australian tour now under their belts, I though I'd take a look at the album as we missed it on the AU the first time around.....
- www.theaureview.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Summary: Age is just a number. It's a bit counterintuitive, but early 40-somethings Nada Surf seem to be growing less and less jaded and cynical as the years wind by. They were big once, properly alternative-rock-radio big with 1996's snarky hit "Popular," and the only place it got them was the one-hit wonder section in your local FYE's bargain bin...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Nada Surf are clearly unconcerned about guitar music's apparent death, as they cheerily return with The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy, their sixth album of breezy and nostalgic Nineties-style guitar rock. In a 20 year career they've been dropped by their record label, forced to produce a covers record, battled ruthless A&R men and have been labelled a 'one-hit wonder...
- drownedinsound.com
2012-02-16
★★★★★
In the midst of everything, a heart-in-mouth Matthew Caws proclaims "it's never too late for teenaged dreams!" This comes on the sixth track of Nada Surf's seventh studio album, which marks the band's entry into a third decade of existence (they formed in 1992). You could argue that the former malcontent, scruffy trio have spent an entire career not giving up in teenaged dreams...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-01-30
★★★★★
This review originally ran in AP 283. Nada Surf's blend of melancholy, anxiety and child-like optimism is fully intact on their first collection of original material in four years. However, the Brooklyn band haven't sounded this relaxed since 2005's The Weight Is A Gift and as a result, the music on The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy is much closer to their freewheeling live shows...
- www.altpress.com
2012-01-30
★★★★★
The obvious thing about Nada Surf, known to anyone who likes them and attempts to share them with others, is that they lack any kind of easily commoditized allure--no mysterious aura here, no hipster cred, no working class rootsiness. This is a band out of the '90s, which is only a time period to them, springing as they did from the bowels of '90s modern rock radio, from a time when MTV's Buzz Bin was starting to show its age...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2012-01-30
★★★★★
It must be weird sometimes to be in Nada Surf, if only because they still get judged by a song that becomes increasingly unrepresentative of their body of work. I'm referring, of course, to "Popular," from their pretty nifty grunge-esque record High/Low. I happen to like that song, even though it's an anomaly of sorts compared to Nada Surf's releases from 2002's Let Go onward...
- www.punknews.org
2012-01-30
★★★★★
Barsuk It's been four years since New York rockers Nada Surf released a disc of original material. The band's last, 2010's If I Had a Hi-Fi, re-imagined the works of other artists, so it's notably refreshing to receive any new tracks--let alone a set of songs as perfectly composed as the ones here...
- www.relix.com
2012-01-30
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