Nada Surf | Waters | Air Review June 28, 2012

Before, Nada Surf albums simply took on the character of the songs that the band came up with at the time. This one was different — there was a plan. “We’ve always played faster and a little harder live,” Caws says, “but we’d always play so carefully in the studio. So with this album, we made a conscious decision to preserve what it felt like in the practice room, when you play with that new-song energy. Just embrace it and not worry whether we’re overdoing it, kind of get all the thinking out of the way.”

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