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Nada Surf - Lucky
| Allmusic | | If Fountains of Wayne create snarky power pop songs for Friday evenings, then Nada Surf is the band for Sunday afternoons. They've grown more emotive over the years, having replaced the sarcasm of 1996's "Popular" with a grown-up focus on pop songcraft and mellow instrumentation. And they've been lucky, too -- lucky in that their audience has remained, their (once rocky) label situation has steadied, and their chops have improved. Appropriately enough, Lucky sounds like a celebration of the band's good fortune. Somber songs are still present, most notably the plaintive closer "The Film Did Not Go 'Round," but most of the album is dominated by steady, mid-tempo pop/rock. Nada Surf spent the first half of the 2000s making subdued rainy day records, which makes Lucky seem downright sunny (if not supernova bright) in comparison....full text |
| | Nytimes | The handsome gloss of strings on much of “Watershed” can only do so much to brighten the mood. K. D. Lang, who produced the album herself, has clearly spent some recent time answering the call of melancholy. This is her first collection of new material in eight years, and its atmosphere, luxurious and doleful, reflects a state of heavy contemplation.
Ms. Lang, 46, has walked this road before. Heartache is her natural habitat, as it was for one of her early heroines, Patsy Cline. But the songs on “Watershed” aren’t torch-lit with longing, as they once might have been. Instead they project the voice of experience....full text |
| | Slantmagazine | | Having found a second life several years after a novelty single (1996's "Popular") placed them in the same modern-rock buzz bin as Harvey Danger, Geggy Tah, and Marcy Playground, Nada Surf have developed into a standout indie-pop band. Lucky, their third album on Barsuk, is their most accomplished record yet, in that the band finally articulates a fully developed point of view that distinguishes them from similar-sounding acts like the Shins and Rogue Wave....full text |
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