I have to admit that I was late, when I met Nada Surf They had already been active for more than a decade. I know, however, that it has been more than enough time to edit albums that, without assuming a revolution in the history of pop, were marking an ever-ascending race in search of the holy grail of the perfect melody and the punch necessary for a three-minute song to catch you forever. And what if they succeeded.
It is representative that the group knew how to recover from its great hit "Popular", contained in its debut in album format. "High / Low" (1996), because they could end up being engulfed by that same success as happened to many groups of their generation. But it is not the case, no, they followed their own, that powerpop that has been mutating from a grunge tint to a more detailed and emotional one. Do not call it bland cornyness, please, and to the tests (new album) I refer. Maybe "Lucky" (2008) could cause a small downturn, and many raised the alarms with their album of versions "If I Had a Hi-Fi" (2010), but it was not necessary.
Don't expect any surprises on your brand new album "The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy". Beautiful title for a catalog that refers to the quintessence of its formula, because that's what the story is about this time, and that's why we find elegant and catchy melodies, inspired dialogues between guitars, and this time, too, they manage to slap all those people who thought they were heading towards the more senile sentimentality, there there is the opening cut “Clear Eye Clouded Mind”, the rising “No Snow On The Mountain” or the powerful “Waiting For Something”, with hymn overtones, to corroborate it. It didn't take so much waste but these are Nada Surf, a real band, with nothing to hide, with nothing to lose or gain and doing what they do best: songs.