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Nada Surf will always be the band that stormed the charts with Popular. A college rock song, with nagging vocals that immediately labeled the band as post-grunge. Fact is, Nada Surf has less or nothing to do with other post-grunge bands like, for example, Weezer. Only the song Popular has the same vibe. And Popular is Nada Surf. For the greater part, Nada Surf make pure pop music in which bands like the Byrds, Kinks, Small Faces, and — surprise, surpise — the Ramones are never far away. After a very difficult period during which their record company refused to release their second album (The Proximity Effect) for not being commercial enough, they are back with Let Go. An album that, in a way, brings the band back to where they started: passionate pop, with heavy edges and beautiful vocals, like on their Karmic EP. Let Go is their best album, bringing you brilliant pop songs like Fruit Fly, with Byrdsian vocals; powerrock songs with a touch of new wave, as in Hi-Speed Soul, sounding like the Dream Syndicate doing The Cult; and the modest cheerfulness of Happy Kid, which would be great as the new single. With Let Go, Nada Surf produces an album that leans heavily on The Classic American Rock Album: Theirs is an album that breathes the great, wide open space. An album that reminds us of the best of the Lemonheads, and offers a touch of Dream Syndicate laced with a dirty bit of Afghan Wigs and some Tom Petty. But above all, Let Go is the album that proves Nada Surf to be the real heir of classic American rock. Na Surf is back. Long live Nada Surf.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/nada-surf/let-go/1896/
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