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This Alternative-Rock trio from New York City, New York USA, started
in the mid-'90s when two high school friends, singer+guitarist Matthew
Caws and bassist Daniel Lorca met drummer Ira Elliot.
In the fall of 1995, the boys released the 5-track EP "Karmic"
on No. 6 Records; the band scored their biggest hit when they joined up
with Ric Ocasek, who produced their
debut full-length disc, "High/Low", issued in June 1996 on Elektra
Records; the lead single, "Popular", broke into The Modern Rock
chart peaking at #11 and helped to propel the album to #63 on The Billboard
Top 200 chart.
The band returned two years later with the second effort but they then
sabotaged their career by fighting with their record company and the album
was released as scheduled in Europe; so after wrestling the rights back,
Nada Surf released "The Proximity Effect" Stateside in 2000
on their own label, MarDev Records and toured accordingly.
Two years passed before the trio released its third album, "Let Go";
it was eventually reissued on Barsuk Records in 2003 and charted in the
Billboard's Top Independent Albums list.
Nada Surf resurfaced in September 2005 with a new single, "Always
Love" and a new album, "The Weight Is A Gift", which hit
#15 on the U.S. Top Independent chart and made a brief chart intrusion
on The Billboard 200 at #167.
"Lucky", the title of the New York City threesome's fifth album,
due for release February 5, 2008, is at once literal and ironic. Like
the songs that Caws, Lorca and Elliot crafted for their previous two albums,
"Lucky" is filled with images of restlessness, longing and the
elusiveness of love.
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