Last Friday, Nada Surf unveiled Moon Mirror, the alt-pop group’s tenth album released over the span of an impressively consistent thirty-some years together. The band’s debut for New West Records feels every bit as weightless as the power-pop anthems that inhabited their 1996 debut High/Low, while vocalist Matthew Caws’ lyrics have only grown more insightful over the years as he’s relocated from the band’s birthplace of New York City and settled in the green pastures of Cambridge, UK.
For those uninitiated with the English city, Caws hunkered down in a park near his home to perform two tracks for “Neighborhoods,” opening his video with a brief tour of the surrounding area. After introducing us to the local livestock and spilling some local Soft Boys lore, the musician strums through the track “In Front of Me Now” from Moon Mirror on acoustic guitar and closes the set with a rendition of “Come Get Me” from the band’s previous record, 2020’s Never Not Together. Check it all out below.
