Nada Surf will be releasing their new studio album, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, on January 24, 2012 through Barsuk (January 18th in Japan, January 23 in the UK/EU). This is the band's seventh full-length and comes on the heels of last year's covers album if i had a hi-fi. It's their first album of all new material since 2007's Lucky.
Frontman Matthew Caws says that the band made a conscious effort to capture the band's live feel in the studio. "We've always played faster and a little harder live," Caws says, "but we'd 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."
In order to capture the essence of their practice space on record, the band did something they haven't done since their 1996 debut, High/Low -- they recorded The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy at home, in New York City. And to ensure that they fully accomplished their mission, Nada Surf set up shop in their rehearsal space, located in bassist Daniel Lorca's long-time loft in Williamsburg.
And the change of pace seems to have truly paid off. Caws adds, "Making this album was such a joy, the most fun we've had with a record. For many years I'd only write if I had something troubling going on in my life and I needed to break through, but now I wanted to get past writing about just myself. That new outlook, for me, is the engine for making this record."
The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy might not be out until January of next year, but you can hear and download a song from the album entitled "When I Was Young" below. It's a beautiful, melodic song that starts gently and ends in a mountain of guitar chords, lifted high by the symphonic wind of a sweeping string section.
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: Nada Surf - "When I Was Young"
Or download the track below.
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