The Nada Surf is up and building in advance of their sweet-sounding new album You Know Who You Are, which will be released tomorrow on Barsuk/City Slang. On Monday night Nada Surf played new track Cold To See Clear on Seth Meyers (watch below, followed by the song’s official video) and today have released the official video for Rushing off the album.  Just as with Cold To See Clear, Rushing is quintessential Nada Surf:  chiming, jangling pop masterpieces. While there’s nothing new under the Nada Surf sun here, Rushing was co-written with Dan Wilson (Semisonic, Adelle, etc.) and melodically rolls and rushes off of Caws’ tongue.  The video was filmed in in Paris (naturalement, mais porquoi?) and depicts a new love at t-minus spontaneous combustion (thankfully very SFW despite the concept). And apparently the band’s Matthew Caws likes to watch.

Caws in turn e.e. cummingsed the following about the video: “i’ve known sarah and emilie barbault for a long time. i did the music for two short films of theirs, a day of lucidity and pleurer des larmes d’enfance. they shot the video for the minor alps song “waiting for you.” we’d wanted to make another video together for a long time. the song is about the transporting feeling of new love. i wrote it with dan wilson. we were writing together to see what it would be like, not for nada surf necessarily. it was a really wonderful experience. he has such a great musical and lyrical mind. i was originally hoping that this song would be sung by a woman because while there is (more and more) pressure on men to be attractive, there is still clearly more on women, and this song touches on body-consciousness in the chorus, how the right person can make you forget issues of appearance, and more holistically can pull your mind up out of your body and into a plane of one-ness, of spirit. there’s a line about watching the human river go by, when you’re not participating or can’t find your way in. we had a great day taking the subway all over paris and shooting wherever felt good. it was fun to play for the commuters but i’m sure they were wondering why i wasn’t singing a famous song.”

Pick up Nada Surf’s new album HERE.  The band heads out on a worldwide tour starting next Monday and will make their way to California in May.  Check out the dates and get tickets HERE.