Nada Surf – Let Go (2LP)

‘Title: Let Go   Format: 2LP   Label:Heavenly Recordings   Cat Num:HVNLP42X   Barcode:5400863070458

Nada Surf – Let Go (2LP)

RELEASE DATE : 19/08/2022Nada Surf
Let Go
First time ever on Heavenly vinyl, released 19th August 2022
Heavenly Recordings have announced a 20th anniversary vinyl release of Nada Surf’s classic
album Let Go. This will be the first time Let Go has appeared on Heavenly vinyl.
Let Go was the third album by the New York trio Nada Surf (Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira
Eliot). By the time it was released on Heavenly in the summer of 2002, the band had already
witnessed a good deal of the highs and lows of the music industry, having had a breakout MTV
hit before being dropped by their US label and having to go back to 9 to 5 jobs. Sessions were
entirely self-funded, with the band paying the producers in dollar bills earned from the merch
table at their shows.
When a cassette of the album initially arrived at Heavenly, it was with no preconceptions, just
a “you’ll like this” nod from a mutual friend. And they were right. Let Go is a power pop
masterpiece – all soaring melody and closing time melancholy. It quickly became the
soundtrack to day and night in the office and on release picked up glowing reviews from Q
(“melodic… mature… intelligent… wistful” 4*), Rolling Stone ("Nada Surf show enough smarts
and panache to leave most of their Nineties-rock peers eating hot dust” 4*) and Entertainment
Weekly (“a comeback effort that grows more popular with each spin”).
Twenty years on, Let Go is getting its first ever vinyl release on Heavenly. This new cut
reinstates the UK tracklisting over four sides of vinyl (previous pressings were over three
sides with one side left blank – us neither).