Nada Surf stream new record Peaceful Ghosts in full

The album - Peaceful Ghosts (Live with Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg) to give it its full title - is a unique record.

The Brooklyn-based outfit were invited to perform a special concert by FM4 in Austria - the radio station picks a contemporary artist to play with an orchestra for a show broadcast across the nation; Radio Eins in Berlin offered Nada Surf a similar opportunity, giving them the chance to perform live on air with the Babelsberg Film Orchestra.

“If we said yes, we'd have to choose a composer to write the parts and then decide which songs he or she should write for. We'd have to decide these things soon. Well, that was out of the question,” says frontman Matthew Caws of the opportunities. “Deciding what kind of Thai curry takeaway I should get that evening was about as distant a decision as I could imagine, while the small matters of which songs would go on the new Nada Surf record, who would mix them, what the album would be called, and what the final verse of the song I was working on right then would be, loomed ahead. I would try and answer these questions after that curry, but making decisions about a concert months later was more than I could handle.”

Fortunately, composer Max Knuth and Martin Wenk of Calexico were on hand to help out and shape the symphonic side. Older material and new favourites are showcased from a new angle on Peaceful Ghosts, with Nada Surf visiting hits from new directions and enhancing the innate beauty of tracks like "Blonde On Blonde" and "Inside Of Love".

This new collection is Nada Surf's second major release of 2016, following the summer's sensational You Know Who Are LP.