Nada Surf - Lucky

When the effects of leading a boring life settle into my bones, I tend to go dredging around the web for bands with interesting names. Sometimes it proves futile (Math the Band, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's,) but in the case of Nada Surf, my little idiosyncrasy paid off. "Lucky," the band's most recent album, delivers like a pregnant Irish girl - fun, lovestruck alt-rock with a ballad here and there, and whole lot of danceability. It's a hipster's wet dream.

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