NADA SURF

NADA SURF
LET GO (2002)
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Nada Surf recorded their third LP, Let Go, in Los Angeles in 2001. The album was produced by Chris Fudurich (who engineered The Proximity Effect) and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, The Clash). Fudurich shared mixing duties with by Bryce Goggin, Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla, Louie Lino, and Juan Garcia. It is, without a doubt, their best. On Let Go, Nada Surf channels all the bands they grew up with (The Modern Lovers, Big Star, New Order, etc.), as well as their like-minded peers (Flaming Lips, Guided by Voices, Frank Black, Teenage Fanclub, etc.)—taking everything they love about rock, and everything they love about pop, and playing it their way. Not afraid to be a little dark, to want to fall in love, to admit they’ve got problems, to show their bruises, to make things danceable, to sing about fruit flies, or, most importantly, to make a record that answers to no one but themselves. Nada Surf has learned a lot over the years. That’s what makes them good.

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. Là Pour Ça
11. Treading Water
12. Paper Boats