NADA SURF'S recent album, "Let Go" received across the board plaudits as if from nowhere, but it's undoubtedly got a strange'n'lovely attraction that grows fonder as you return to it.
"Inside of Love" was always of one of the Mothership's crown jewels, so it's no great headline to discover that its' plaintive, chiming fragility works beautifully all on its' Jack Jones, pushing Nada Surf's seductive vulnerable streak to the fore, along with their songwriting abilities.
The melancholy, slightly chromatic downside of the trio's classic, overhauled US Power Pop sound, "Inside Of Love" is all slow-burning harmonies, measured rhythms, reverbed, shoegaze-y guitars and singer Matthew Caws relating to everyone's human frailties with a truly naked honesty. The line about: "making out with people I hardly know or like" is a sensation that most of us are wincingly familiar with if we dare to let our guard down.
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The single package is further pepped up by the inclusion of a meatily effective demo of Nada Surf's fratboy-splattering anthem "Popular" and a nice smash'n'grab raid on Iggy's "Sick Of You", but the first stop is unquestionably "Inside Of Love". If there's still any justice in the world, this ought to be a massive hit.
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