And, as the LP is the gold standard for the 21st century version of Nada Surf, that's also when you find out who you really are.īandbox is thrilled to offer the 15th anniversary edition of The Weight is a Gift on exclusive white vinyl, the first time it's been pressed on colored vinyl since 2005. Well, it seems it’s not until your Weight is a Gift moment that you realize just how complex everything is. “Why do simple things take so many years?” Caws asks on the penultimate “Armies Walk.” “Like I had to see what I could lift.” The rest of The Weight is a Gift - from the slow-burning beauty of “Your Legs Grow” to the self-reflecting enlightenment of “In the Mirror” - unwraps like a heavy present, building with brick upon brick of adulthood realization. “Maybe this weight was a gift,” he wonders during the bridge of its de-facto title track, the bouncy “Do It Again,” as Elliot’s stadium-sized drums thunder beneath him. It’s during this revelatory LP’s second tune that Caws rises above the haze. “To find someone you love, you’ve gotta be someone you love,” he postulates, a theme that carries through to the album’s biggest hit, the pensive torch song “Always Love.” “Hate will get you every time,” goes Nada Surf Mach II’s signature tune. Weight opener “Concrete Bed” may not be that youth-restoring epiphany, but it does find Caws mapping out his way there.
“I’m just a happy kid, stuck with the heart of a sad punk,” he sings on the record’s second track, desperate to be freed from the jail of jadedness. The third album’s whimsical indie pop re-defined the band’s sound, adding acoustic guitars where there were once raucous riffs and pushing Caws’s pristine vocal melodies to the front of the mix. “I’m gonna disappear by train, cut my signal chain, find a stable world and fill it up again.”Īfter putting Nada Surf into the icebox and working day jobs for a few years, the trio re-emerged with Let Go in 2002. The band refused, so, although Proximity performed well in Europe, it wasn’t released stateside until two years later - on Nada Surf’s own imprint, the band having wrangled the rights from its former label. Nada Surf was formed in 1992 and consists of Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira Elliot, and Doug Gillard. Not seeing a hit single on its 1998 follow-up, The Proximity Effect, Elektra Records tried to tack a couple covers onto its tracklisting. The discography of Nada Surf, a New York-based alternative rock group, consists of nine studio albums, thirteen singles and one extended play. That elevated social status was short-lived, though. The New York band consists of Matthew Caws (guitar, vocals), Ira Elliot (drums. Marked by singer Matthew Caws’s wistful lyrical insight, this coming-of-age record was a hard-won triumph for the New York power-pop trio.Ĭaws and bandmates Daniel Lorca (bass) and Ira Elliot (drums) were briefly welcomed into the major label in-crowd upon the release of their debut full-length - 1996’s Ric Ocasek-helmed High/Low - thanks to the sarcastic spoken-word hit single “Popular” and the rest of the record’s jaunty guitar rock, which fit right in with the era’s commercial tendencies. Nada Surf is an American alternative rock group that was formed in 1992.
(Fox played in the Cleveland rock band The Mice, whose Doug Gillard guests on guitar here.Nada Surf’s fourth album, 2005’s The Weight is a Gift, is the sound of self-actualization. Naturally, the album kicks off with what sounds exactly like a great new Nada Surf song - the band helpfully bills "Electrocution" as "Electrocution (Bill Fox)," making it clear that If I Had a Hi-Fi's existence has just a little something to do with getting Nada Surf fans into its members' favorite music. Nada Surf's gift for wise rock uplift doesn't fade when the trio tackles other people's songs, either: Its fine new covers collection, If I Had a Hi-Fi, documents the group's ability to make even Depeche Mode sound like a bunch of hope-slinging life-lovers. In one of its greatest songs, 2005's "Do It Again," singer Matthew Caws sums up his weary-but-hopeful worldview in one line: "Maybe this weight was a gift / like I had to see what I could lift."
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The Brooklyn band makes big, bright, chin-up rock 'n' roll about love and survival, aided by some of the brashest, sweetest choruses around, but it knows how to let wistful melancholy mingle with the sunshine. Not many musicians can pull off relentless hope and sunny optimism while maintaining their gravitas, but Nada Surf makes it work.
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