Nada Surf – “Believe You’re Mine” [SoundCloud Song Stream]

The Skinny: Nada Surf has announced the release of its new album, You Know Who You Are, out March 4, 2016. The band’s eighth record and fifth for Barsuk, it was produced by long-time comrade Tom Beaujour at Nuthouse Recording n Hoboken, NJ. The album marks the band’s first as an official quartet with the core unit – singer/ songwriter/guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot – joined by Doug Gillard on second guitar. Album pre-orders begin today, December 2. The first song from the new collection, “Believe You’re Mine,” is available to hear now.

“I was so eager to have an album done that I believed in it as it was,” Caws recalls. “But the great thing about being ‘finished’ is that you can take a breath and evaluate, because the pressure to ‘do it’ is gone. The more I listened and thought about it, the more I realized that I might want to keep working. Also, I’d sent the tracks to my friend Josh, who runs Barsuk Records, the label we’ve been on since 2002, and he said ‘It’s great,’ but followed that with a pregnant pause. I got the message. I didn’t take that as a critique as much as a belief that I could do better. It was very freeing,” Caws continues. “There were already a bunch of songs in the can that we all liked, so I could think more expansively about what the album could be.”

You Know Who You Are Track Listing:

01. Cold to See Clear
02. Believe You’re Mine
03. Friend Hospital
04. New Bird
05. Out of the Dark
06. Rushing
07. Animal
08. You Know Who You Are
09. Gold Sounds
10. Victory’s Yours