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From ambitious-outsiders:
Remember when Nada Surf came out with Let Go in 2003? Remember how it was a poignant, enchanting reminder of why you started buying records in the first place? How it was just so sweet and nuanced and superbly designed? How the sentiments moved you and the harmonies made you swoon? Well, the follow-up to Let Go has arrived, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to tell you, The Weight is a Gift is just that — a gift.
For lead singer/lyricist Matthew Caws, “working on music seems to be the best escape route I have. It’s a place I can go and have some peace. As life inevitably gets more complicated, you need those escapes more and more.” Indeed, The Weight is a Gift, and Nada Surf in general, is an escape from those complications and then some.
Nada Surf has always embodied an enviable musical esthetic. It’s stripped down, void of studio trickery, existing in an idyllic and beautiful place that completely escapes all that overarching bravado and hones in on music’s basic truth: if it is good, people will cling to it. The Weight is a Gift was produced by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla (who also performs on the album). It was recorded at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studios in San Francisco and at Walla’s Hall of Justice in Seattle.
Harmonies stack up knee-deep as the boys channel their inner Moody Blues in swelling epics like “Do It Again,” “All Is A Game” and the best pop song you’ll hear all year — “Imaginary Friends.” The album’s soft, fuzzy and undeniable centerpiece, “Always Love,” issues a twinkling conviction while “What Is Your Secret?” pilots the arrival of a brutal truth. Throughout, even within the more soft-spoken moments on The Weight is a Gift (“Comes a Time” and the eerily beautiful “Your Legs Grow”), it is Caws’ profoundly emotive and angelic voice that makes this album a glittering gem.
It’s the kind of album you reach for on a Saturday morning. Just waking up, deciding what to do with the afternoon, you sink into The Weight is a Gift and open your shades to a hazy summer day.
Check out the band's brand new single "Do It Again" MP3 link
The band are currently on a European tour, and will be returning to the US in October with a slew of dates across the country with New York outfit Say Hi To Your Mom.
Nada Surf US Tour Fall 2005:
*All dates (unless noted) will be played with Say Hi To Your Mom
October
4 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
5 - Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
6 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
7 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (w/ Shivaree)
8 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
10 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl St
11 - Montreal, CAN @ La Sala Rossa
12 - Toronto, CAN @ Lee's Palace
14 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
15 - Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
18 - Vancouver, CAN @ Media Club
19 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
20 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theatre
21 - San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's
22 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
23 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
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