Lucky

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Lucky, the title of Nada SurfÆs fifth album, is at once literal and ironic. Like the songs that singer-guitarist Matthew Caw, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot crafted for their previous two album, let go (2003) and the weight is a gift (2005), lucky is filled with images of restlessne, longing and the elusiveness of love. Yet the band counterbalances the lyrical bittersweetness with a musical buoyancy. Intimate songs become in-it-together anthem, thanks to the chiming guitar, propulsive rhythm, and the emotional candor in Caws’ vocal. 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 trouble, for a blissful three minutes or so, will disappear. It has been recorded throughout March and August 2007 at the Robert Lang Studio, 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.Due to a misquotation of .

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