Showing posts with label The Weight Is A Gift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Weight Is A Gift. Show all posts

Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift Part 3

Comes A Time

A relaxing song, with slow tempo and soothing guitar arpeggios and melodies. I mean, the lyrics and great and work really well with his tone of singing. “Comes a time when you can’t judge no more” talks about the fact that there is a point in life where we become the lone figure and we are the ones being judged instead of judging other people to me.

In the Mirror

An up tempo song relative to the previous track, it sets into the mood of the song soon with lyrics coming in within the opening bars. The double tracked guitar lines work well with the simple percussion as the lyrics and recurrent rhythm melody, “I need a reminder of what I’m doing, I need a reminder that I’m human” tells me that once in a while we’ve gotta stop living and just see what we’ve done. What mistakes we’ve made, what bad choices we’ve made, because that essentially means that we are human.

Armies Walk

Soft guitar introduction with another simple bassline and percussion works well, but not a huge fan of this track, it seems more like a filler track and doesn’t really tell its own story.

Imaginary Friends

A great way to finish the album, we see a strong overdriven rhythm guitar lead the way of the final track of the album, as his soothing voice contrasts the melody with its strangely high range  as he tells us, ” Today, don’t want no one to tell me how it ends, meaning that he just wants to be alone and we need times like this in our lives.

A true indie rock record.

7/10

Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift Part 2

What Is Your Secret?

I love this song. I really do. Mix of simple guitar chords and piano melodies offer great assistance to the lyrics of the song. He really just states the reality of life that everyone has secrets and although they’ll always come out, he’d given up on finding out that kind of shit proven as he says “I don’t care about you anymore, people don’t care anymore.”

Your Legs Grow

Alright, this songs uses lots of dubs and works well with the song vocals. Essentially all he says is that he looks forwards and not backwards… ain’t that true bout love. Also, love it and saying that forget the bad stuff cos “Your Legs Grow”.

All Is A Game

This a is great song and sometimes i go way too deep for this one. Again, i love this kind of unique guitar tone he uses, slightly overdriven but still gets the clean and almost acoustic. Anyway, going deep for the time being, he really puts it right – “Is the weight of your own life too much for you?” and this line ties in with the album title: The Weight Is A Gift. Too right.

Blankest Year

This song became pretty famous after i listened to it, and really all he says is ’screw life, i’m gonna have fun.’ This is a true indie rock song with that rhythm guitar and well selected percussion. Ultimately, this track is just laid back and a really fun song to sing to – “Oh… Fuck it, I’m gonna have a party!”

Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift Part 1

Wow, great album. Their best album. Easily. Caws’ unique voice and lyrical writing shows the band’s prowess in developing into one of the better indie/alternative independent artists out there a well as his accompaniment from Elliot and Lorca on drums and bass.

Concrete Bed

The opening track is fitting with their love-based album The Weight Is A Gift and its predominant lyric “To find someone you love, you gotta be someone you love” shows its deep yet simple meaning – Only your OWN heart knows what it wants you know? There’s no stopping that. The musical composition is excellent as well, showing their new and unique version of indie rock with great rhythm acoustic guitar.

Do It Again

This song is another great rhythm song and I felt that when listening to this album, this song made it as a really good driving track. It has the album title’s lyric – “maybe this weight was a gift” and it makes so much sense; having a burden on your shoulders is a good thing, whether it be love or a friendship, it’s worth it. Funny as it is my friend actually interpreted as literal weights in the gym so now I get to tease him. Clearly, he’s what I would call a music person.

Always Love

This again is a good song, which still hasn’t demonstrated as of yet, their unique indie sound but is my personal favourite track on the record as it really sums up choices in life in a few lines – “To make a mountain of your life is just a choice.” Composed well with the soft guitar tone and then an overdriven verse as it simply compares those two great opposing emotions – hate and love with great assistance by Elliot on percussion. Be careful kids, this choice is between having a hill or Everest on your shoulders.

Welcome

Hi guys to all the readers out there.

Welcome to my blog based around music and art in general.Pretty much will be albums and songs I’m listening to and reviews of them (of which I all purchase, to you cheapscapes out there).

Upcoming: Nada Surf’s 2005 album – The Weight Is A Gift.