The Sunday afternoon can be a sad, especially in this particularly cold winter beset by cuts and reforms. What can turn it around and turn it into a jubilant celebration of good music and oozing good vibes? A direct of Nada Surf, it is. The successful transformation took place yesterday at the Apolo in Barcelona in what was the last appointment of his Spanish tour before embarking for Europe that is causing us so much trouble lately. But how far is the Merkel, Soraya and all his henchmen depressing when Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca and Ira Eliot ─ accompanied, just as they did last year, Doug Gillard of Guided by Voices and Martin Wenk of Calexico ─ break on stage and among guitarrazos and infectious choruses, make us feel young and invincible again.
As always, they sound more upbeat in the spotlight but, anyway, his latest album "The Stars are indifferent to astronomy" radiates already feeling very straightforward, with immediate issues and easy to be loved as "Clear eye clouded mind "or" Waiting for something ", with which it arrives. But are the strains of "Happy Kid" who tear the first hangover of my heart palpitations, with its warmth, but also somewhat bitter aftertaste that is hidden under this simple and beautiful letter: "I'm just a happy kid , stuck wih the heart of a sad punk ... "
Interspersed with the nice comments Caws and Lorca ─ the charismatic bassist of the national harvest dreadlocks ─ the new songs are combined with other singles from their previous discography. Nearly 20 years on the road go far and despite the many great songs that sound at the Apollo ─ Weightless, 80 windows (deliciously seasoned with the trump of Wenk), Hi-Speed Soul ... ─ is inevitable that others left out. Echo especially miss the great versions of Bill Fox and his penultimate Depeche Mode album "If I had a hi-fi", which has representation only in the hands of "evolution" of Mercromina.
These small absences are more than offset by the wonderful sound "See These Bones" with its delicate start takes you gently by the hand, its bridge crescendo you squeeze it with firmness and gradual glorious final fee you boot directly to run by the city dotted with night lights of the talking the song. "Always Love" brings together the voices of the audience in singing exalted one, already in the second encore, the poignant "Popular" and the always festive "Blankest year" are responsible for closing the concert in style.
A fantastic evening of unpretentious pop simplicity and honesty which is its strength. If the formula works, do not change, and Nada Surf, with magical melodies, near its staging and its ability to arouse feelings accomplices and chants to the surface, it works. Well if it works.
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