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First single "When I Was Young" starts off as an acoustic number reminiscent of Big Star or the Go-Betweens, before teetering into a full-blown shoegaze epic, Caws repeating "what was that world I was dreaming of?" in a bittersweet ode to more innocent times.
 
After such a fantastic start, the album inevitably starts to flag around the midway point. Apart from the surprise trumpet clarion on the lounge-y "Let The Fight Do The Fighting", the instrumentals hardly stray from the standard rock set-up, inducing involuntary listener fatigue. It's all very stirring and generally pleasant - and "Teenage Dreams" is a line I think we can all get behind. It's not until the final track "The Future" that Nada Surf scale the heights of the first few tracks, ending on a definite high. Overall, a solid, occasionally spectacular outing which won't trouble their status as rock outsiders - you get the feeling they wouldn't have it any other way.

Verenigde Staten
Rock
Label: City Slang


1. Clear Eye Clouded Mind
 2. Waiting for Something
 3. When I Was Young
 4. Jules and Jim
 5. The Moon Is Calling
 6. Teenage Dreams
 7. Looking Through
 8. Let the Fight Do the Fighting
 9. No Snow on the Mountain
 10. The Future