Nada Surf share their new single ‘So Much Love’, which is taken from ninth studio recording and first in almost four years. Their new LP, Never Not Together, is due Feb 7 via City Slang.

Speaking about ‘So Much Love’, Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws said "It's a song that celebrates good will between people. Sometimes it can be hard to remember that it's there. But it's all around us. Small things add up. A little tolerance and acceptance can be built on. We're good at love and being kind. it comes naturally to us, but so do other things. You just have to keep looking for the right way to lean, it's worth everything.”

Never Not Together was heralded last November by the first single, ‘Something I Should Do’. ‘Looking For You’ followed in December, joined by a unique animated video filmed by the members of Nada Surf.

Never Not Together sees Nada Surf – Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira Elliot, and their longtime friend and collaborator, Louie Lino – continuing to pursue their humanistic vision of the world through hooky, catchy rock songs with sharply drawn, yet tenderly felt, lyrics. Recorded earlier this year at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, the wide-ranging collection revels in the group’s ability to evoke and reflect grand and intricately wrought emotions, whether through sweeping guitar solos or hushed-whisper vocals. “We’re all together, and that’s just the way it is, and the way it always will be,” says Caws. “That’s the sacred truth of it.”

See Nada Surf live:

25.02. UK Cambridge - Junction 22

12.03. UK London - Electric Ballroom

13.03. UK Manchester - Academy 3

14.03. IRL Dublin - Button Factory

15.03. UK Glasgow - St-Lukes

Scuzzy garage-punk London four-piece Nothingheads are releasing their ferocious new single. ‘Topsy’ is out now.

The unhinged fuzz-fueled stomper recalls the likes of Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall with an extra layer of chaotic doom-laden distortion. They tell us that they “wanted to make it heavy, catchy and motorik with explosions that ripple underneath trying to break out”, and the recording by Chris Smith at Kluster Studios does well to capture this.

Musically, it conveys some of the darker aspects of the tracks subject matter; the disturbing footage of an elephant being electrocuted for public amusement in 1903. ‘Topsy’ was executed on Coney Island during a publicity stunt claiming to be part of a scientific demonstration by Thomas Edison, but later revealed to be because she’d killed a spectator who stubbed a cigar out on her trunk.

Supposedly, it was the first filmed death for entertainment and the single artwork by Ben Coiacetto is of Topsy’s life at the amusement park.

The new noisemakers have already played with some of the country’s strongest upcoming artists including the likes of Japanese Television, Nuha Ruby Ra, Ugly, Something Leather, Swedish Death Candy, Human Pet and The Cosmics. They’ve also been championed by some of the best in local promoters Club The Mammoth and Exploding Head Sessions.