brother bird, aka Nashville singer/songwriter Caroline Glaser, will release her new album another year on March 8 via Easy Does It Records, but first, she’s putting out a holiday 7″ with covers of two songs from Nada Surf‘s 2003 album Let Go, “inside of love” and “blonde on blonde,” the latter of which features Kevin Devine. Caroline says:
towards the end of september 2023, kevin devine came down to write with me for a few days- i had been toying with the idea of recording another cover off ‘let go’ as a split 7” alongside ‘inside of love’ for a bit… i brought the idea up to kevin and he VERY graciously jumped on board.. we ended up covering ‘blonde on blonde’ in my shitty little studio closet before he left. kevin is one of my favorite artists of all time and a dear dear friend. it’s a real honor to have him on anything.”
‘let go’ by nada surf is a big record for me. it’s been in pretty consistent rotation most of my life. when i started working with my pal/producer, owen lewis.. we didn’t really know we were making an album. we just wanted to see if we worked well together, so we just made a bunch of stuff. all the time. we talked a lot about music and what we liked and learned pretty quickly that we’re both mega fans of that record.. we thought it’d be cool to take a swing at ‘inside of love’. it ended up actually being on my sophomore LP, ‘another year,’ up until we got it mastered. it became pretty important to me to keep that collection of songs as originals, but i knew i’d release the cover in some form down the line.
Kevin adds:
I was thrilled when Caroline approached me about covering “Blonde On Blonde” together.
I truly love her, love her music – not hyperbole, I think she’s a special singer and writer and performer and it’s scary in the best way to keep watching her make these quantum leaps every time she approaches something new – love the song, and love Nada Surf, a canonically excellent band who are also some of my favorite people.
I’m really happy with what we made – faithful with its own pulse, pretty with subtle idiosyncrasies.
We hope you think so, too. Thank you, as always.
Check out both, along with the video for another year‘s lead single “something better,” below.
