Moon Mirror by Nada Surf

Moon Mirror, the tenth studio album from New York's Nada Surf, arrived on New West Records on September 13, 2024, more than three decades after Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca started the band. Caws still sings and plays guitar, Lorca holds down the bass, Ira Elliot drums, and Doug Gillard, in the fold since 2012, rounds out the lineup.

Instead of fighting the calendar, these songs make peace with it, turning on gratitude and on being present in the moment, and the band wraps them in the chiming, bittersweet guitar pop they've been polishing since the '90s, only warmer. Critics were won over: Metacritic tallied a score of 82, and Rob Sheffield in Rolling Stone put it alongside Let Go, The Weight Is a Gift and The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy as some of the band's most passionate work. MusicOMH held it up as proof of how steady one of America's most overlooked rock bands has been.

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