Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift
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Artist: Nada SurfEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Music Label: Barsuk
Soundtracks:
- Concrete Bed
- Do It Again
- Always Love
- What Is Your Secret?
- Your Legs Grow
- All Is a Game
- Blankest Year
- Comes a Time
- In the Mirror
- Armies Walk
- Imaginary Friends
Free Music Notes for The Weight Is a Gift
Free Music Review: Melancholy, Hope, & Life Woven Into A Great Album
Hit: 5 Stars
When I see an album with over a dozen reviews I think what can I add? My two cents I guess! In a way perhaps I am unique for a couple of reasons: I am almost 49 years old and I never listened to this band prior to this album. Those factors seem to separate me a bit I would say.
This is one great album if you like emotional intelligent power pop (cringe). It has the kind of melody that makes it very likeable. The lyrics make you think as you wonder both what they mean to the authors and how you personalize them to your experiences. I immediately like the first four tracks and now that I have listened more times I must say the whole album grows equally on me.
This is kind of like the album I wished that the Posies has stayed together and made. If you like "Always Love", the third cut which I guess was the cut that got airplay you absolutely owe it to yourself to get the whole album since it only gets better in my opionion.
There is not enough of this kind of pop that has equal measures of intelligence, emotion, and melody. Plus, Nada Surf rocks out too! I love it and now am going through their other albums. Recommended and encouraged!
The Weight Is a Gift Poster
Produced with Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, The Weight is a Gift is a less elliptical musical offering than Let Go. Just as that 2003 recording put Nada Surf back on the map, after several years stuck in post-major label limbo, their fourth full-length proves its success was no fluke. As before, singer/guitarist Matthew Caws is as much lovesick dreamer as pop culture junkie. Last time around, he was extolling the pleasures of Blonde on Blonde, now it's Paris, Texas ("Comes a Time") and "Lenny Bruce's Bug Eyes" ("Imaginary Friends"). Ultimately though, it's the more emotionally direct material that leaves the biggest impression, like "Your Legs Grow" and "Always Love" (the only song that sounds a little like Death Cab). The one exception would be the fuzzed-out, but still poppy "The Blankest Year," which deviates into darker territory, like the Hollies covering Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life." --Kathleen C. FennessyThe follow-up to 2003's masterpiece, "Let Go", is a perfect pop album sure to alleviate the growing breathless anticipation among long-term fans and recent converts. It carries on the contemplative tone that characterized much of "Let Go" with tracks of heartrending beauty, introspection, wit, and often deceptively dark lyrics, while also displaying the band's penchant for pure pop melody. Produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, The Thermals).
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