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Zero Mile PresentsMoon Mirror Tour
NADA SURF
MON, 21 APR 2025 at 08:00PM EDT
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 at 11:00AM EST
Announcement: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 at 01:00PM EST
Moon Mirror, Nada Surf’s new record, has everything fans love and expect from them.
Bittersweet anthems that begin quietly but explode into soaring harmonies? Check. Songs
that are play-on-repeat heart punches? Check. Songs that are poetic and thought-provoking
while also being absolute belt-at-the-top-of-your-voice-with-the-windows-down
masterpieces? Check. It’s all here.
Nada Surf is Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira Elliot, and Louie Lino. Moon Mirror, their
first for New West Records, was produced by the band and Ian Laughton at Rockfield
Studios in Wales.
Moon Mirror is a thrilling and moving leap forward for Nada Surf. The songs on the album
are true to the human experience—as meaningful and mysterious and sometimes absurd as
it is. There’s love, yes, but also grief, deep loneliness, doubt, wonder, and hope. These are
not the songs of a band in their 20s. There is hard-won wisdom here, and hard-won belief
in possibility—the kind that comes from falling down and getting back up.
“Give Me The Sun” (“I'm looking for something/ I can't say exactly what”), “Second Skin”
(“I'm tired of living in this second skin/ I want to let everything in”), and “Moon
Mirror”(“connect me to something”) grapple with being present and open, paying attention,
and seeking connection in a world that feels alienating with its everything-all-at-once-ness.
“In Front of Me Now” is a song against multi-tasking and sleepwalking through the one life
we have. The song asks, “Why wasn't I present? I could have been living,” and shows us a
transformation in the chorus: “Today, I do what's in front of me now.” I don’t know about
you, but I need this reminder as much as ever.
Nada Surf has been working together for decades, and they’re consistently excellent, but
they always surprise me. That’s what great art does. For nearly 30 years, Nada Surf has
been a part of the soundtrack of my life. Our lives. I fell hard for the band over Let Go in
2002, and following that, The Weight Is a Gift, in 2005. Those songs are lodged in my body,
someplace they’ll never be extracted from. So are songs from The Proximity Effect, Lucky,
The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, and Never Not Together, which was my favorite
record of 2020. Moon Mirror will take its place among the others, in heavy rotation.
Four years ago, during lockdown, I was listening to Nada Surf one morning. My son, then
seven years old, was quiet, and then he said, “They sing a lot about love.”
What he said next has stuck with me: “It protects you.”
Love protects you. If you need convincing, I think Moon Mirror will do just that. Lucky,
lucky us to have had Nada Surf’s music with us for all of these years, and lucky, lucky us to
have these new songs now, right when we need them most.
—Maggie Smith
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Terminal West, 887 W Marietta St NW, Ste C,Atlanta,GA,United States
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