Artist.......: Nada Surf
Album........: Lucky
Label........: Barsuk
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-15-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. See These Bones 05:10
02. Whose Authority 03:01
03. Beautiful Beat 04:39
04. Here Goes Something 02:06
05. Weightless 03:32
06. Are You Lightning? 05:23
07. I Like What You Say 03:09
08. From Now On 02:36
09. Ice on the Wing 03:48
10. The Fox 05:41
11. The Film Did Not Go 'Round 03:47
Runtime 42:52 min
Size 63,9 MB
Release Notes:
Lucky, the title of Nada SurfÆs 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. Turn up the
volume, hit the repeat button, and your troubles,
for a blissful three minutes or so, will disappear.
It has been recorded throughout March and August
2007 at the Robert Lang Studios, in Seattle, under
the direction of producer John Goodmanson.
The band issued an official statement announcing
this album on October 12, 2007. The song "See These
Bones" premiered on the Anti-Hit List Podcast on
October 20, 2007.[1] Due to a misquotation of
Matthew Caws, it was first expected to be called
Time for Plan A.