Lucky, the title of Nada Surf’s fifth album, is at once literal and ironic. Like the songs that singer-guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot crafted for their previous two albums, Let Go (2003) and The Weight is a Gift (2005), Lucky is filled with images of restlessness, longing and the elusiveness of love. Yet the band counterbalances the lyrical bittersweetness with a musical buoyancy. Intimate songs become in-it-together anthems, thanks to the chiming guitars, propulsive rhythms, and the emotional candor in Caws' vocals. A song like beautiful beat segues from a sparsely arranged, confessional first verse into a harmony-laden chorus and reaches multi-layered, canon-like proportions before the track fades out. If Caws is often suggesting that romance and resolution may still be an inch or two out of reach, he's also proffering immediate musical solace. (Barsuk Records)
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Original Release Date: |
02/05/2008 |
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Pressing Release Date: |
07/08/2008 |
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Label: |
Barsuk Records |
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Country Of Origin: |
USA |
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UPC: |
866173107010 |
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Number of Records: |
1 |
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Pressing Information: |
Unknown |
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Features: |
CD/Digital Coupon |
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Track Listing: |
1. See These Bones
2. Whose Authority
3. Beautiful Beat
4. Weightless
5. Are You Lightning?
6. I Like What You Say
7. From Now On
8. Here Goes Something
9. Ice On The Wing
10. The Fox
11. The Film Did Not Go 'Round |