{"id":45400,"date":"2018-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/one-louder\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:20:09","slug":"one-louder","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/one-louder\/","title":{"rendered":"One Louder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it looks like it’s been over a decade since the longtime Des Moines rockers The Nadas has graced us with their presence (see our 2005 review<\/a> of Listen Through The Static<\/i>), and it\u2019s about time they were brought back. An outfit that has been called ‘The Best College Band You’ve Never Heard’ by at least one major publication (though they’re still pretty obscure), The Nadas is still just as great as they were in the ’90s. <\/p>\n

After starting off with loud guitars and crashing percussion, the opener \u201cIf Everything Goes My Way\u201d finds a firm garage rock and punchy rock ‘n’ roll angle with some aching pedal steel. \u201cRita’s Hook\u201d follows and is more in line with ’90s college rock, where strummed acoustic guitars are matched with warm vocal harmonies, and \u201cTime To Time\u201d is a moody bar rocker. There’s then a swift turn into the wispy, lonely \u201cRoses,\u201d a lovely soft and dreamy rocker, while \u201cAnother Verse, Another Rhyme\u201d keeps things on the introspective side to help the first half end as colorful and accomplished at it began.<\/p>\n

The second half of the album digs deeper into a more roots rock feeling with the rugged \u201cLeft Hand Man,\u201d which moves into the soulful soft rock of \u201cI’m Only Lonely For You.\u201d Near the end, \u201cHenry James\u201d is one of the quirkiest tunes here, featuring some keyboards and a steady beat, and \u201cI’m Still Here\u201d brings in a mountain rock influence and bluegrass feel that finishes at a very different but no less compelling place than the album began. <\/p>\n

Bands like Nada Surf and The Old 97’s come to mind here when listening to the Nadas, and the album is as precise as one would expect considering it’s their eleventh LP. If you haven’t made yourself familiar with this fine Iowan band, don’t waste any more time. Alt-country, modern rock, and folk rock are all delivered here with top notch musicianship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7224],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45400","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-nadas","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45400"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}