Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Nada Surf
Let Go
(Heavenly, 2002)
There’s a new album out next year, but we couldn’t wait to dig out this poignant powerpop peach.
In the gin-gilded gutter lives of all discerning under-achievers, Nada Surf’s Let Go remains a repeat-play soundtrack of euphoric consolation. Released in 2002, it arrived unheralded, the third studio album from a six-years-gone MTV video band who’d been dropped by Elektra because they’d stopped making MTV singles. But this New York trio - old-time school-friends, singer Matthew Caws and bassist Daniel Lorca and ex-Fuzztones drummer Ira Elliot - had burrowed in, consolidated, and, using their own tour money, independently recorded a 21st Century pop masterpiece. Introspective, melancholy, hypnotic, joyous, Let Go pulls you into a series of damaged bachelor narratives, hallucinatory slow-day trawls through dark bars, deserted train carriages and 24-hour convenience stores that said it was OK to booze, fail, fall apart and ponder existence because, well, what else is there? Other optimistic albums followed - including forthcoming, February release Lucky – but when you’ve fallen and you need a friend further down this is still the one to buy.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 09/12/2007
Further Listening
Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift (City Slang/V2, 2005)
Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down (Mercury, 1985)
Joyzipper – The Heartlight Set (Vertigo/Universal, 2005)
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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