{"id":974361,"date":"2020-01-10T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=935493"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:24:50","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-nada-surf-so-much-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-nada-surf-so-much-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Nada Surf, \u2018So Much Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nada-surf.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly 20 years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nada-surf\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nada-surf\" data-tag=\"nada-surf\">Nada Surf<\/a>\u2019s wonderful alt-rock one-hit-by-design \u201cPopular,\u201d a song that perfectly embodied\/parodied the underdog ambivalence of the post-Nirvana era. They\u2019ve been making excellent music ever since, years and years after so many other alt-rock one-hits don\u2019t even exist as trivia questions. The run of albums they made during the 2000s \u2014 2003\u2019s <em>Let Go<\/em>, 2005\u2019s <em>The Weight Is a Gift<\/em>, and 2009\u2019s <em>Lucky<\/em> \u2014 is especially worth returning to, full of sweet songs about grappling with the muted joys and weird perils of negotiating life as you transition from twentysomething to thirtysomething.<\/p>\n<p>What sets Nada Surf apart is the unguarded quality of singer-guitarist Matthew Caws\u2019 songwriting, which dwells on love, friendship, and the desire for connection with a warmth and honesty that go perfectly with his melodies, steeped in the careful prettiness of the Go-Betweens and the no-frills formal consistency of Spoon. He\u2019s a little like a Rivers Cuomo without an ironic bone in his body, or a Chris Martin who can play half a dozen Only Ones songs from memory. Just check out \u201cSo Much Love,\u201d from their forthcoming LP <em>Never Not Together<\/em>, a driving, elegant song about being constantly blown away by the way the passing beauty of everyday life can help free up a heavy mind. \u201cI\u2019ll fight to stay open,\u201d Caws sings with striking conviction over sturdily ascending guitar churn and bright piano, the kind of sun-through-clouds loveliness that\u2019s been picking up indie rockers\u2019 spirits for ages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nada-surf-so-much-love-song-you-need-to-know-935493\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been nearly 20 years since Nada Surf\u2019s wonderful alt-rock one-hit-by-design \u201cPopular,\u201d a song that perfectly embodied\/parodied the underdog ambivalence of the post-Nirvana era. They\u2019ve been making excellent music ever since, years and years after so many other alt-rock one-hits don\u2019t even exist as trivia questions. The run of albums they made during the 2000s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:07:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}