Nada Surf STARS ARE INDIFFERENT TO ASTRONOMY MISC challenging expectations and expanding their

challenging expectations and expanding their sound without losing the intensity that defined their early years

the gently repeating keyboard phrase of Mist blooms unexpectedly into a rainbow of human voices before evaporating into the oceanic swells of Hi Traveller

there was the usual cycle that consumes most working 21st musicians: make an album

What Is It That Ever Was

and rhythmic momentum free of veiled tones and artificial ceilings

Nada Surf STARS ARE INDIFFERENT TO ASTRONOMY MISC challenging expectations and expanding theirNada Surf celebrate their 20th anniversary with The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, the band's seventh studio album and first collection of original material since 2008's Lucky. "Every birthday candle that ever got blown out is one more year of someone trying to figure it all out," Matthew Caws sings in "Looking Through," a song about aging gracefully and holding onto one's youth. Most of the other tunes follow suit; "No Snow on the Mountain"