Nada Surf

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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 propel the album to #63 on The Billboard Top 200 chart.

Nada Surf returned two years later with its 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, the trio released "The Proximity Effect" Stateside in 2000 on their own label, MarDev Records and toured accordingly.

Two years passed before they released their third album, "Let Go". It was eventually re-issued on Barsuk Records in 2003 reaching #31 on the Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart.

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 studio record, was released in February 2008. The albun was at once literal and ironic; like the songs that Caws, Lorca and Elliot crafted for their previous two efforts, "Lucky" was filled with images of restlessness, longing and the elusiveness of love. It managed to crack the top 10 of the Indie chart and reached #82 on The Billboard 200 spawning two minor hit singles, "See These Bones" and "Whose Authority".

Nada Surf bring their trademark sense of harmony and musical craftsmanship to twelve of their favourite songs with their 2010 release, "If I Had A Hi-Fi", their first album of covers, released via the band's own MarDev Records.

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High/Low

(1996)

1. Deeper Well
2. The Plan
3. Popular
4. Sleep
5. Stalemate
6. Treehouse
7. Ice Box
8. Psychic Caramel
9. Hollywood
10. Zen Brain

 

The Proximity Effect

(1998)

1. Hyperspace
2. Amateur
3. 80 Windows
4. Mother's Day
5. Troublemaker
6. Bacardi
7. Bad Best Friend
8. Dispossession
9. The Voices
10. Firecracker
11. Slow Down
12. Robot

 

Let Go

(2002)

1. Blizzard Of '77
2. Happy Kid
3. Inside Of Love
4. Fruit Fly
5. Blonde On Blonde
6. Hi-Speed Soul
7. Killian's Red
8. The Way You Wear Your Head
9. Neither Heaven Nor Space
10. La Pour Ças
11. Treading Water
12. Paper Boats

 

The Weight Is A Gift

(2005)

1. Concrete Bed
2. Do It Again
3. Always Love
4. What Is Your Secret?
5. Your Legs Grow
6. All Is A Game
7. Blankest Year
8. Comes A Time
9. In The Mirror
10. Armies Walk
11. Imaginary Friends

 

Lucky

(2008)

Tracklisting posted on Barsuk.com

1. See These Bones
2. Whose Authority
3. Beautiful Beat
4. Here Goes Something
5. Weightless
6. Are You Lightning?
7. I Like What You Say
8. From Now On
9. Ice On The Wing
10. The Fox
11. The Film Did Not Go 'Round

 

If I Had A Hi-Fi

(2010)

Tracklisting posted on NadaSurf.com

1. Electrocution
2. Enjoy The Silence
3. Loves Goes On
4. Javine
5. You Were So Swarm
6. Love And Anger
7. The Agony Of Lafitte
8. Bye Bye Beaute
9. Question
10. Bright Side
11. Evolution
12. I Remembered What I Was Going To Say

 

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